HUNGARIAN REARMAMENT PLANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200540010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Hungarian Rat Plans
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1. The MAVAG iron foundry and engineering works at Diosgyor employs 12,000
workers. It is egaipped with twelve Stemen-Martins smelting ftrnaoes and
four electric furnaces.
Comeent: According to other information, the number of employees
appears oTe overestimatedo )
2.. Eighty percent of the production at the MLVAG works, which includes rail-
road material and machinery, goes to the Soviet Union.
3. The machinery of the gun factory at Diosgyor was dismantled by the Soviets
and removed to the Soviet Union, after it had been evacuated to Gyongy s
and Aszod in 1944 because of air raids. The machinery and installations
of the factory are now being replaced, and the Soviets have given orders
for war material to be manufactured there again..
Eugene Tnose, fnanaging director of the Gana Electrical Works and of the
Heavy Industry Center, is in Moscow for negotiations on armament pro-
duction. The Hungarian Communist Party recently issued a circular to all
trade union eaceoutivee instructing them to propagandize the need for
rearmament.
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NO CHANGE in Class.
DECLASSIFIED
Class. CHAr,:,Fn TO: TS
Auth? DDA Memo, 4 Apr 77
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