MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN BUDAPEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R001500100009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 5, 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, Title
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.
COUNTRY Hungary REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT Military Installations in DATE DISTR.
Budapest
5 October
1955
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
A report containing limited information concerning military installationa&
in the Budapest area is available in the CIA Library.
Distribution of Attachment (2 pages and 3 sketches):
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CIA Library: Retention
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Copy #3 Air: Retention
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3. A Hungarian Air Force caserne, located immediately south of the southeast eorwr of
Budaors CR 47-27, E 18-50 Airfield, consisted of twelve one to three-story acructure550X1
of unknown dimensions; the entire. area was surrounded by t barbed wire fence.
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COUNITY: Hungary
SWJECT: Military Installations il
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Following is the legend to Enclosure A:
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caliber, in dugout emplccements. This area was surrounded by a barbed wire fenceo
The guns appeared to be mediva-sized and were observed from a distance of About
300 m in February 1955.
Billets for Soviet troops which were observed in Febrtary 1955. rlis 50X1
building was formerly' the city poor house (szegegy has and was a two or three
storied building of unknown dimetsions.
. A Hungarian Army caserne which consisted of two three-etory barrack-typebuildings,
301c15m, located at the corner of Eireden utca and Mallnovsky Alley, Tly, newest
building was constructed in 1954. This caserne was last observed ' in 56561
February 1355.
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housed a training unit because, on both occasions, ne majority of the audience Was
18 to 21 years of age. This personnel wore blue 11.1nrarlan Air Force ehoulder boards
with the white piping worn by air cadets. Further, wheo the performers were obliged
to use a classroom as a dressing room, it was observed that the classroom was equipped
with a cut away radial aircraft engine as well as several nomenclature and functional
charts for conventional aircraft engines several radial-type aircraft engines mounted
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on stands were Observed in a nearby hall, In this hall, there was also a mock air-
craft cockpit partially covered by a tarpaulin; however, this device did net appear
' to resemble a link trainer when such a device was described to both sources ? The:
device had no electrical wires, connections, or control mechanisms as far as bath
sources could remember. See Encl. C for a Onpoint location of the caserne.)
4. In spring 1954, airfield at
Kiskunlachaza (N 47-11, E 19-00). Nine or ten single-engine jet aircraft were
observed from a distance of about two kilometers. From the officer in charge of
.the officers' club at the airfield, I these aircraft were
hy_pilota_wllo_,_rec1ined in a prone position. Source was unable to i entify the
aircraft or recall any of the planes' physical characteristics.
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