NEW MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015500320006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION.
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT New Military Construction
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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1. A new barracks complex has been completed on Sajo'szentpeteri Street in Miskolc:..
It is destined for Hungarian artillery.. There are three three-story buildings
for personnel., each 20 x 10 m; a headquarters building, four-storied and with
two wings,, one 50 x 120 m, the other 30 x 120 m; four single storied building::;
10 x 40 m., for personnel and offices; one office building 10 x 20 m; one magaz;i.lae,
10 x 20 m; four garages for guns and cars, each 15 x 80 m; three magazine barra=4ks,
each 10 x 20m; numerous houses for officers and their families; a transformer
house; a wo rkshop 0 There are numerous tall watchtowers.
2. At NyLregjh.z.za on Nagykal.loi Street is an infantry barracks complex. It cozisis ys
of a main building, two-storied, 60 x 120 m; a headquarters building, one-storied;
a taro-storied building for personnel; and a magazine. The command of a
Hungarian infantry regiment has been established here and the main building holds
about 150 infantry.
3. The former cavalry barracks at Nyfregyhiza was heavily bombed during the war erii
has only partly been restored. It is 'now knuan as the Gusev barracks. The
command of the,l Infantry Division has been installed in it. A
communications command occupies a separate building. The command building ?_s
also occupied by the divisional transport company. The division has a big
defensive unit, which occupies a separate building. At the same place is a
Hungarian artillery i?!giment. The men of the regiment are quartered in two other
barracks 'buildings. The following buildings are in use: office-building; for
divisional political officer; officersf' casino; auto repair shop; 4 garages for
guns; one food storehouse; a munitions -depot; a gun repair shop
4. At Zalaegerszeg near 'the main railroad station on Hunyadi Street are barracks
with flat roofs. They consist of three personnel buildings,. 30 x 100 m eacrn; one
single-storied personnel building, 30 x 100 m, three three-storied officersv
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resi,dexnces,, each 111;0 , 50 one hospital with bath, 100 m x 60 m; a movie and
.cuit.ral c.en eer 9 60 :at. 60 mA three stables each 30 x 100 m~ The whole barracks
area is surrounded. by barbed -wire. -This new and modern barracks belongs to the
, VkI,and is only partly :c pied., An,VVH :instructional battalion belonging to the
Zaleaeg(, r'ezeg area co a=rd is instal..:ied.
Underground fuel depot near the village of Mid.. This place lies 5 km north of
Szerencs Three 1r-:northeast of the village Hungarian laborers have built an
underground. dep:+t; for gasoline of reinforced ~doncrete ? The place lies between
the ~e: a :rs ..~ a~ , s~atistcs railroad and the. Ta'llya-Mid, road. During
construction the p.i.ac:e was gtaiarded by the AIM. When it was complete, the A.VH
men were replaced by a Russian MVD ; nit o P.-s, soon as this occurred,, the depot
was filled nap 0 The word, was r.-a-6 lied. or. With the help of Russian excavating
machines in a very brief t cress 0 The depot is 15 n4, deep. A good deal of
difficulty was caused by water stepage a After the concrete was in, iron tanks trrex e
installed.. Altogether' there are 360 of these tanks,, each capable of holding
three tack cars of the largest, size used on the Hy ari.an railroads o There is a
p ping iristalla,t ion near the center of the complex and the tanks are connected
with each other by undergrovmd pipes o There are six electric pump* o A spur
line leads from the M9d station to the spot o The whole area is surrounded by
barbed wire and is