DIFFICULTIES AT DUNAPENTELE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010000310009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Difficultie at Dunapentele 00, OF PAGES
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the actual constructjono The subsoil does not seem able to support' such heavy
buil`..dings',, Slidings and sinkings have resulted. In particular it is feared
For.some time.the State Planning Office and the People's Economic Council
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at Leningradq and there the plans we 110 elaborated for t lo organization of
the plant at Duren pente:1e
NO. OF ENCLS.
WSTED GUM
'Thesite of Dunapentele for the new steel. plant was chosen on short notice
after abandonment of the site of. ' oh~'~as o All the necessary details for
modification of. the p:-as were sent to the T ti,
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that the metauurg1cal establishments are on unfavorable terrain and that
the nearness --of A he, Danube may, cause still other troubles,
3m After receiiving~the`first reports concerring_tIese new difficultiesp E..nk
competent university professors and Hungarian geologic. ' experts.
State- Planning Office, Kirov, representing the
' analogous . Soviet office, and
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.Kirov said he would ask his superiors to send to send to Ii?ttr+..gary a Soviet
expert who would himself have control of the situation.
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a red to the -conxstructa.on.
There, was a- violent discussion in the course of which reproaches were exchanged
about the' choice of, this ;site- The first decision taken has been the urgent
dispa'tob., of geologists to the scene Expert geologists, will be. permanently-
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