HUNGARIAN -SOVIET BAUXITE-ALUMINUM COMPANY

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Hungary/USSR Da NOT C I R C HI
SUBJECT Hungarian-Soviet Bauxite-Aluminum Company
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1. The Hungarian-Soviet Bauxite-Aluminum Company has its offices at Kossuth Lajos
Ter 18, Budapest. The works themselves are at Alm.sftiz:i near Lake Balaton.
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2 This company is under the control of the :Ministry of Light Industries and
is a collective Hungarian-Soviet joint stock company, in which 55% of the
shares are Soviet-owned and 1I5% are Hungarian-owned. In accordance with
this joint ownership, the company is administered partly by Soviet and
partly by Hungarian personnel., As this was a Hungarian-German enterprise
prior to World War It, it was automatically convertedinto a Hungarian-
Soviet joint stock company in 1945.
3. A br4nc4- of this company is the DLmavilgyi Timf8ldgy4r, Danube V .ll. Alumin
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4. The plant at A1mAsf .lit 4as founded in 1939, but its development eras delayed
by the war and it was not resumed until the end of 1946. The "buildings
were completed in 1951.
The machines were supplied partlyyby'the`0r v1 t 50X1-HUM
Unioa and partly by Eastern Germany. Some of the machines have not yet
been delivered by these countries. According to .plan.,, all machinery was
expected tb arrive to enable the works to start operating 50X1 -HUM
The plant, at `A iaf .i.zit produces no aluminum only the intermediate product
alumina (timf8ld) production amounted. 50X1 -HU M
to 2 ear loads of alumina per day.
The alumina is produced from bauxite at the works. This bauxite for alumina-
processing comes from Iohay Fejgr county, in the Danube valley. It is brought
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by rail from Moha to A1mAsfitzit8 at the rate of 22 cars per day, excepting
Sundays and Mondays These bauxite deliveries arrive punctually.
Coal supplies for the works at Alm ,sfr zit8 also arrive by rail. They come
from Tatab&n.ya, Tokod/ and Solym :r a
ro The current is supplied from :B nhidaa The works has its own power station
the 3 turbines require 5 carloads of coal per day,
9. All supplies are brought by direct rail connection to the factory area.
10. It is known that 80% of the production of this plant is sent directly to
the Soviet Union; the cars loaded at Almasfdzit8 pass on immediately to
the Russo-Hungarian border, station. Zahony; The remaining 20% of the alumina
approximately 20% of the total production was sent to Czechoslovakia, which
was deducted from Soviet deliveries
production is transported by rail to Ajka in Veszpr m county
11 Leading personnel
The director of the joint stock company is a Soviet national named
Morosov (friu
The technical director is a Hungarian, named Istvyn Zi k ny;~
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The chief of the power station. is Engineer Nagy (fnu),
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The chief of building operations is also a Russian, His name is Jakoliev
(fns.)
e. The Party se-cre
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kos;
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f. The leader of the "Hungarian Union of Fighters for Freedom" and the- 50X1-HUM
Youth Organization is 'Vince Gomb6s;
12. Labor 4
the total number of persons employed in Budapest
and at A lm: ,sf i t was 1,500,: of which 90% were employed at. A: sfiifzito,50X1-HUM
Of this figure, approximately 500 were women. No children are employed
by the works.
At A.lm ,sfi:zit work is done in two shifts, Sunday counts as a working day.
c.. Owing to the importance of the plant the employees are well paid. Never-
theless, there is much dissatisfaction among the workers, because of the
strenuous nature of the work and the-fact that Sundays are not free,..
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=an infantry company, consisting of 1.10 men was suddenly
ordered to A1mAsfUzit , as the management feared acts of sabotage, The
infantry company is housed in wooden hutments outside the plant area.
Theguards are pasted inside-the factory enclosures
4 art from this infantry unit, there is an AVM unit of 10 men., which
serves day and night as factory guard.
Anyone may gain admission to the directorate of the plant in Budapest,
but only possessors of valid entry permits with photographs are admitted,
to the works at Alm ,sf Cztt .
o special air raid precautions had been introduced; 50X1-HUM
only air raid siren practices were occasionally heard.
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