CONCRETE PRODUCTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000100010038-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: November 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Concrete Products
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DATE (OF INFO.) ,8 Sep,53,.
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OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THEMEANINO OF TITLE 10, SECTIONS 793
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unevaluated intelligence information received through an untested sources The credibility of
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.1. Tbi, "Albertfal'va Epuletelemgyar" . (Albertfalva Building Matera..a1ev~,:
'a tor,y) is, s:it4ted .in.`?the Budapest suburb. o.f Albert.faiva. ,.Thee.rE q r~t._i p,L$ rQu1ded
with a oc-nerete wall two meters high,, with ten watchtO wers,.
2, The factory produces:
e,. "Eisenbetontraversen" or re6olenforced coone'rete ?tra verses i1, which
ties;ly meamsgirders, sills, and perhaps props.
.b. Fence posts and fence pickets
o. Base plates
Concrete piping
e. File specialties
f. Doors and windows for AA shelters
Some of these products are made in sections, for assembly at the place where they are
to be used.
3. One special section manufactures the re-enforced "traverses" entirely.
The normal girders are from 4.5 to 6.6 meters in length. The,so-called,"Gangtraversen"
are made in lengths of 2.6 to 4.8 meters. Those that are meant to be used. as sub-
stitutes for pit props have round iron rods,of 8 to 14 rum in thickness. The door for
AA shelters axe five to six centimeters thick and weigh 150 to 180 kilogr als.. Both
they and the windows are made as single units.
4. There-enforeeed concrete products are made in basins heated by hot air at
a temperature, of from 60? to 800 centigrade. Norms are set very high in this factory.
.The pourers must turn out about 400 of the 6-meter traverses of Type G 60 in twenty-
sour hours. The daily norm for sixteen workers is 600 to 700 feface posts. Two
workmen must turn out 70 of the mine traverses in eight hours.
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The following figures can be given for production capacity:
(a) Daily production of AA shelter doors: 40 pieces
(b) Fence pickets in sixteen hours: #300 to 1200 pieces
(c) Mine girders in sixteen hours: 5000 pieces
The factory gets its water and. current from the Budapest Water and Electric Works. Coal
is provided by the Trans-Danubian.
The raw materials used are mainly rolled iron, commercial steel (Handelsstahl), cement,
and gravel. The main supply of iron and steel comes from the Rakosi tyas Works in
Csepel and from the iron works in Ozd. Small deliveries are received from the Soviet
Occupied Zone in Germany. Soft binding wire is received from Czechoslovakia in sizes of
2.01 and 5.6 mm. Iron rods received are of eight, ten twelve, and fourteen mm diareeCe .
The Tatabanya Cement Works supply Portland cement and a further partial supply is
from Poland. Gravel is taken out of the Danube with. the factory's own, dredges.
The raw material is brought in by rail, as are the pre-fabricated materials. Two branch
lines connect the factory with the mama railway net.
The technical head of the factory is an engineer named Kristofoli,.a competent specialist.
The Communist Party man in charge is named Koczian, a convinced Communist enthusiast.
The Albertfalva factory employs both free labor and prisoners. There are on an average
about a thousand prisoners, though the figure sometimes rises as high as fifteen hundred.
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