HUNGARIAN POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500410026-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2013
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: December 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Th1s material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transm3sslon or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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.Lost EM in the Hungarian police force came from the rural areas.
Police authorities preferred to recruit peasant youth for these fobs
because they were less spoiled than urban youth. Recruiting cam-
paigns were usually successful because (1) rural youth wanted to
escape the miserable conditions of collective farm 11fe to enjoy
the many advantages of city life and (2)'beeause the government pro-
mised good pay, food, and clothing as well a+~ leas physical work
than that required of youth on the farms,.:.
The Communists preferred to recruit officer members of the police
force from the real proletariat, i.e., urban industrial workers,
and only required them to be completely devoted to the regime and
to keep strict control over the policemen who were of peasant ori-
gin; the regime did not trust those of peasant origin and was
realistic enough to believe that they would always resist Commu-
nism. However, even the trusted palice officers, of proletariat
origin, occasionally showed sympathy toward the populace instead
of the regime.
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~. Generally, physical and mental strain as well as continual fear of
their superiors made individual policemen impatient and tired. The
nervous tension made them irritated and, as a result, the police
sometimes mistreated the population
~. The traffio police in Budapest were both male and female Source
claims that the male
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p
ce were generally polite, quiet, and in-
dulgent but that the female police were common, loud, and impudent.
~. The public security in Budapest was very ineffective. At a public
school on Kt3bt3lkuti utca, the school children were frequently robbed
of their coats and watches on their way home from school. The
children's parents requested police assistance but were unsuccess-
ful in obtaining,it; therefore, it became necessary for the children's
parents to take turns in escorting the children to their homes from
school, especially Burin the i
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er months when the days were short.
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