FLOOD DURING SUMMER 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500410009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 6, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 1NTELt1GENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Hungary
sus~ECT Flood Dur3:ng. Sumnner 1954
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COUNTRY Hungary
SUB]ECT Flood During Summer Z95t~
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1' In, summer 195, during the flood in Hungary, various factorise and
offices reoeived a government order to mobilize ae man
possible to work in the flood-stricken erase. y Persons as
carried out during regular working hours buts inetead~ra~'ter-the
regrxlar work day; these pereohe were transported to the flooded
areas to work at night. To refuse to do this voluntary work"; a
person we,s branded as a saboteur} therefore, very f.wr persons re-
fu~ed.
2. Callectiane of many types were organized and the o ulati
ae much ae l0 to ~24 er Dent, of their >rlonthly ino4me, , on "offeredn
eons believed that the Hungarian government should s~1so ~nitper~
by hiring unemployed workers to rein!'aroe?da>rns, eto.~ beoa e~u~art
employment had increased daily following ratianaliaation",~ 9ome
of the "volunteers were transported to the rural areas to aom-
plate the harvesting. 8eoause it was eons dared unwise to store
the harvested grain in the flooded areas, ~he government took over 50X1
the oattle and harvested Drops of th? i>7dividual farmers and never
returned these to their owm~r~_
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dams; most of these dams .had not been repaired ,~or cared for in
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-.The greatest excitement during this period was caused by the finan-
cial ,and~,~,edl,eal aid given the- Hungarians by the. US. For several
week, t~as-~population discussed this aid and compared it to that
'given by"the. USaR, which had :amounted. to only about l/100th of the
.aid given by the US...The ,population, ~a;s' tiappY to learn that the
American aid was controlled by the 'International Red dross; because
of this they believed that the flood vetitns would actually receive
the assistance intended-for t~}aem and ghat the Communist regime would
be unable t? derive benefits of ;any kind from i;he.disaster
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