DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS NEAR THE HUNGARIAN-YUGOSLAV BORDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R000900130002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 18, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
S-E-C-R-E-T
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing 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.
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COUNTRY Hungary
REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT ? Defense Installations near the
DATE DISTR.
IS August 1955
Hungarian-Yugoslav Border
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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2. HUNGARIAN GROUND FORCES
a. Defense Installations
Pep 53 - Semipermanent Fortifications
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General Remarks
6(44.0C-5;071,0):
In July 1953, a "labor" unit from Kaloce, between 500 and 600 men
-Strong, arrived at Molnari, where ordinarily there is no military
garrison, and was billeted in local homes, while its headquarters was
set up in the offices of a local brick kiln. The unit brought along
various individual work tools and four excavators.
A few days after its arrival, the unit began to build semipermanent
defense works along a line along the border and about 1,000 meters from
the later.
Extent of Defense Line
the task of the labor unit in question
was to build defense works in a sector of about 15 kilometers beginning
at Molnari, passing near Semenhaza and Septnek, and extending as far
as another locality (whose name the source does not recall) about 7
kilometers from Septnek (the ,distance between Septnek and Molnari is
about )3 kilometere).
Description of Defense Installations
Partly machine gun emplacements with the following characteristics:
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- reinforced-concrete construction
round-or square-shaped
- wall thickness, 20-30 cm.
cupola-type cover rising about 50 cm. above ground level
flooring: concrete in some emplacements, brick in others, and
packed earth in others
- depth, about 2 meters (underground)
embrasures: three, about 20 x 15 cm. each (in the frontal and
lateral sections)
entrance in rear (toward Hungarian territory), with iron door and
a few steps leading down into the emplacement
- camouflage: the cupola of the emplacement was covered with earth
in which grass was seeded
- the distance between emplacements varies between 20 and 150
depending on the nature of the terrain
meters,
Connecting Trench
The emplacements are interconnected by an open connecting trench,
about 70 cm. wide and 1.50 meters deep, which runs to the rear of the
emplacements.
Ammunition Storage Facilities
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Wire Entangle me nt
As work on the emplacements proceeded, a double wire entanglement,
about 1.50 meters high, was installed about 20 meters in front of the
line of emplacements; the one-meter-wide corridor between the two
rows of the entanglement was then filled in with another, gabion-type
entanglement.
At the time to which this information refers, this entanglement had
been built from Molnari to a point beyond Semenhara and its construction
was proceeding toward Septnek.
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Materials
The necessary materials for this work were brought by rail to iimo-
Murakeresztur (59-60/22-R) and transhipped by truck to the various work
sites.
Work Shifts
Work went on uninterruptedly throughout the daylight hours; the
excavators worked at night, too.
Status of Project
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the work was
still underway. As to the number of emplacements built by that date,
the source could only say that they were "many."
15 Sep 53 -Air Raid Shelter uncbr Construction at Kaposvar (59-60/27-3)
Location
About 20 meters to the right of the Kaposvar railroad station (as
one faces the latter).
Construction Enterprise Concerned
"Mavmagase ito" construction enterprise; the shelter is being built
on order placed by the Ministry of Defense.
Date ofyroject
Work on the shelter began in the spring of 1953.
Status of Prples
In September 1953, the shelter walls had been put up; their characteristics
are:
- reinforced-concrete construction
length of each side, 8 meters (the shelter will be square-shaped)
height, 4.50 meters, 2 meters underground and 2.50 above ground
thickness, about one meter
The shelter area is divided in two interconnected units of equal size
by a concrete partition wall.
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When completed, the shelter will have electric, water, and sanitary
facilities; access to it will be through a single door located in the sile
facing the railroad station.
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Estimated Date of Copletion
First 10 days of December 1954.
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