ENGINEERING OFFICERS IN BUDAPEST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500410023-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: December 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Tit:.,
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Hungary
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Engineering Officers in Budapest
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DATE DISTR. 20 December 195.5
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SUB3ECT Engineering Offices in Budapest
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a. Toe Project Office for Industrial Buildings (Ipari ipzlettervezc7
Vallalat - IPARTERV) was located at V. Fereno Desk utoa
10 and at V. V of utca ll-B. This office was supervised
by the EM and had'branches in both Miskolc (N 48-o6, E 20-47)
and Gyar (N 47-41, E 17-38). All industrial buildings, such as
factories, plants, etc., were planned by IPARTERV. Because
industrialization was the most important feature of the Five-
Year-Plan, IPARTERV,was the largest project of fine in Hungary
and had the best architects and engineers; these architects and
engineers were better paid that those who worked in other pro-
ject offices. In September or October 1954, the Budapest
off toe... of IPARTERV had more than 1,000 employeeqq. 4t that
TervezgeVIlglalattur~ZgTERV)tloOffice oated onezoga$dasdgi ~p~ileteket
Museum kbrut and with
600 employees, was merged with IPARTERV and moved into IPAR-
T"ERV's buildings.' After this merger, the office was called
the Project Of_fioe f9r Industrial and Agri.oultural Buildings
Ipari is Mez gazdasagi Epuleteket Tervezd Vdllalat). During
'rationalization", about 600 employees were di missed, most
of whom had 1 ham"
een on th
e former MEZ T
RV staff. The man
of the o#~P4
i
oe was Dr. IBtv
n am.nA? 4
(1) Bela Matrai-Gottwald, twice a winner of the Kossuth Price,
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b. The Project Office for Public Buildings ~(KtSzepulet Tervezo In-
tezet - KQZTI) was located at V. KecNkemeti utca and was under
the supervision of EM. This office had about 500 to 60Q em-
ployees who worked mainly on drafting projects for city planning.
c. The Project Office for Domestic Architecture (Varosepit4si Ter-
vez6 Iroda - VXTI) was located at VII, Madleh tifr and was un-
der the supervision of EM. This office prepared the plan9 for
all dwellings in Sztalinveros and the Peoples' stadium (Nep-
stadion) in Budapest. This office had about 500 to 600 em-
ployees.
d. T e Institute for Architectural Science (Epitestudomdonyi In-
tEzet - ETI) was located at V. Apponyi t r, had about 250 to
300 employees, and was under the supervision of EM. ETI was
an institute which did research on construction materials and
on the development of reinf rued coporete. The chief engineer
of this office was Dr. Istvin Menytrard who was imprisoned for
several months in 1948 or 1,949, charged with "anti-Communist
conspiracy" (Magyar K3zc$eseg Trial),
as The.stats Project Office (Allami Tervezo Iroda - AMTI) was lo-
oated at XII.Krisztina kd'rut and was supervised by EM. This
office worked on the plans for all types of state office build-
ings, ministries, barracks, etc., and had about 600 to 700 em-
ployees. The chief engineer of the office was xtvtr a.iler,
a former oontraoto
r
f. The Budapest City Project Office/Capital Project Office (Bu a-
pest Varosi Tervez3,Iroda/Favarosi Tervezo Iroda - BTVATI/FOTI)
was. ooated at V. Varoshdz utca in the Budapest City Hall. It
was Supervised by EM and was in charge of repairing dwellings
and apartments. It had about 200 employees who were primarily
old construction contractors.
g. Th/er 1T`Project Office' for Metallurgy (Koho.ari Tervezo Iroda -
t TV T t~___ ? _
r 1r1 1 was JAAA4-wA
a
K
OM. The manager was Isty ff mor
h. T2e Project Office for Machinery (aepipari Tervezo Iroda -
6t TI) and KITI worked on projects dealing with all industrial
machinery foundations.
i. The Project Office for Roads and Railroads (Ut es Vasutter-
vezo.Iroda - UVATERV) was located At V. Molotov t4r and was
under th vision of KGM. Its manager was Istvifn G{bor,
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~. The Project Office for Civil Engineering (Melyepiiy?a~; i Ter-
vez8 Iroda - MELYEPTERV) was also located at. V. Molotov t?r
and was under the supervision of the EM.
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