AIR-RAID SHELTERS IN HUNGARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A032300870001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 25, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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NFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.B.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Air Raid Shelters in Hungary DATE DISTR. 25 January 1957
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Part of the training courses for Hungarian civil-defense specialists dealt with
the construction of bunkers or various shelters and installations to be used in 25X1
the event of air attacks, as follows:
1. BGS (Bomba-Gas 4s Szilankbiztos ovohely, bunker for protection against bombs,
gas and fragments). There are two types of BGS, as follows:
a. Surface type !see sketch). Bunkers of this type have an electric power
generator, which is put into operation only when there is a failure in t'-
external power supply. There are two water conduits, one independent a:'
the other; barrels are provided for a reserve. An air renewal device supplies
1,200 liters of air per minute. This type of bunker is designed to withstand
the impact of a 1,000-kilogram bomb dropped from an altitude of 1,000 meters,
even in the case of a direct hit. According to the tests to which it has been
subjected, this type of shelter is as resistant as an underground shelter, but
its construction is not undertaken except in places where a combination of
certain favorable conditions occurs, e.g., where there is a foundation of rocks.
surface shelters are preferable to 25X1
underground shelters. Moreover, sun ace shelters are less expensive.
b. Underground type. Underground shelters are of different types. Mines
rocky walls are particularly favorable to their construction. Particul
attention will be devoted to providing emergency exits.
TGS (Tormelek-Gas es Szilank-biztos ovohely, Bunker for protection against 1
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and fragments). There are two types of TGS, a public one and one
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private dwellings. The characteristics of the public type are as follows: wal
thickness -- stone, 60 centimeters; brick, 50; reinforced concrete, 25; and
35; roof thickness -- monolithic reinforced concrete, 15
ordinary concrete
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centimeters. The other type of TGS is built. in the cellars of g ivate homes. In
these cases, the roofs are reinforced.
3. GS (Gas 4s Szilankbitztos ovohely, Bunker for protection against gas and fragments)..
There are two types of GS: one, known as emergency type, is built in factories;
the other, which is built underground and has an emergency roof affords_prbtection
against fragments and blast effects.
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4. Emergency station, built on the TGS model.
It includes the following facilities:
a. An entry filter (for gas)
b. An exit passageway
c. Two dressing rooms for men
d. Two dressing rooms for women
e. Showers for women
f. Showers for men
g. Electric generators and storage batteries
h. Air renewal device
i. Room for medical examinations
J. Sterilizer
k. Operating room
1. Isolation room for patients suffering from nervous shock
in. Sick room for men
n. Sick room for women
o. Room for doctors and medical assistants
5. Emergency station, built on the TGS model and similar to the station described above,
except that in place of the showers and dressing rooms it has a second operating room
and a first-aid room.
6. Temporary emergency station set up in pharmacies and private buildings to care for
persons who are not seriously injured.
Legend for Sketch (Attachment to this report) of BGS Surface-Type Bunker;
1. 20 centimeters of reinforced concrete (350 kilograms of cement per cubic meter of
sand). Protection 400 kilograms of 8-mm iron bane., arranged in the.. form of grill
with 5x5-mm mesh.
2. Double insulating plates (No. 120 and 150) glued together with bitumen.
3. 10 centimeters of reinforced concrete (350 kilograms per cubic meter).
4. 6-cm layer of sand.
5. 250-cm protective plate consisting of blocks of rock joined together by Portland cement
6. Layer of sand.
7. 270 centimeters of reinforced concrete (500 kilograms per cubic meter), and 8-mm
and 24-mm iron rounds. Beneath-the inner coating, the iron bars are arranged
in the form of a grill with 5x5-mm mesh.
8. Ventilation chambers (60x2Ox2O centimeters), so arranged as to reduce blast effects.
Inner installations, stairways, partitions, etc., are poured (Monolithic concrete).
It is forbidden to use prefabricated materials.
Note: The figures 200 250 - 280 indicate concrete thickness.
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