MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AND INTERNAL TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600960001-7
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL FNTELt1IGENC;E AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794. of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
Hungary
Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade
DATE DISTR.
30 October 1953
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2
DATE OF INFO..
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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SOURCE:
A0 it is generally known on .. J?aly 1953, considerable changes had taken place
in the Hungarian Government. Several of the ministries were combined. Thus
the Ministry of. Internal Trade and Ministry of Foreign Trade were-combined into
a single ministry, called-Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade.
1. Personalities in the Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade.
inister of Foreign Trade. Szobek is now in.oharge of the Trading Divisions:
Division of Light Industry, Division of Heavy Industry, and Division of,..
be First Deputy Ministers 48210 H . HLy, among others, is in charge of the
'Planning Division. (Terv-f5oszt and-the Division for 'Capital is'io Countries
(actually namggd Ca$ italistic Foreign Relations Division or Allamk zi
kapitalista f5oszt~ ly) . Prior to w4.. Jul r , 1953,'. Hs wal Chief . Deputy Minister in
the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
as Deputy Ministers Andras Szobek, prior to the Government's reorganization
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Ministers Jozeef Bognir, former Minister of Internal Trade.
,Agriculture.
Deputy Ministers Janos HalLez.
Deputy Ministers' SAndor Babes.
Deputy Ministers Janos Tausz, former Deputy Minister in the Ministry of
Internal Trade.
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2. Immediate result of the reorganization was the unification of the administrative
departments, such as the Ministerial Secretariat (Miniszte'1i-titkL-a-
the Departments of Personnels Economics Bookkeeping an
} ~ (azemilyzeti ~s _gazdasagi
osztAlyok,, f8kBnyvel8s4g). Those divisions which were directly concerned with
the activities of Hungarian trade delegations abroad, that is the Foreign
Relations Divisions and the Trading Divisions, remained unchanged in organization
and most of the personnel. Notable exception is the Heavy Industry Division,
whose new head is CsIazsr (fnu).1 Aril (fnu)2 is leaving and will become
Manager of Chemolimpex.- It is contemplated-that the Ministry of Foreign and
Internal Trade, which is conducting its business now in two separate buildings,
will move into a single ..building of suitable size.
Comments.
1. Possibly. Janos Cslsz4r, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade.
2. Possibly Andre Q,l, onetime Commercial Attache in Brazil.
Enclosures
Directory of Hungarian E4cpot't-g and Foreign 'Tradi
Companies. (30 pages) 25X1A
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