POINTS OF STRATEGIC INTEREST IN DEBRECEN

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• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title e. Sections We and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended, Its tranernisslem or revelation of its content,"
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COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Points of Strategic Interest in
Debrecen
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE D $TR. 17 November 195J
NO. OF PAGES 6
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. Army Installations.
a. Headquarters, L. Military District of Debrecen: 56 P4terfia utea. Thie head-
quarters includes a military-political center. The nominal bead of the mili-
tary-political center is always a Hungarian officer; the actual head is a
Soviet major with two Soviet officers attached to him.
b. The following installations are subordinate to the 4 Military District Head-
'quarters:
1.) Railroad barracks.
2.) Artillery barracks.
3.) Infantry barracks "Hajdu".
4.) Infantry barracks.
5.) Motorized barracks (previously cavalry barracks).
6,) Infantry barracks ,Ibn Hadhlzi ut.
7.) Infantry barranks on Saletrom utca.
All barracks and other military installations belonging into the area of the
Military District Headquarters are red-brick buildings constructed between the
two World Wars.
2. Political Organs.
a. All the offices of Hajdu-Bihar County are located in a 6-story building at 54
V6r6s Hadsereg utja (Red Armrs Street). Head of the County Council: Endre
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Balogh, former railroad car factory worker;
b. Office of Manpower Administration: 54 VIIrgs Hadsereg utja.
c. Debrecen office of MNDSZ (Magyar N81c Demokratikus Sz8vets6ge or Democratic
Federation of Hungarian Women): 59 Vtirgs Hadsereg utja. County Secretariat:
2 S4gv4ri Endre utca.
d. Hungarian-Soviet Society: 45-47 VOA Hadsereg utja.
e, SZOVOSZ (Szovetkezetek Orszagos Szovetsege or National Association of Coopera-
tives): 65 Voros Hadsereg utja.
f. County Secretariat of MSZSZ (Magyar SzabadAgharcosok Sz8vetsige or Federation
of Hungarian Freedom Fighters): 32 V8r8s Hadsereg utja. Motor car pool and
barracks: 15 Nyil utca (Arrow Street).
g. County Secretariat of DISZ (Dolgozo Ifjak SzOvets?ge or Federation of Working
Youth): 23 Kossuth utca.
h. Hungarian Workers Party: 1 Perenyi utca.
i. Office of the Central Party School: 21 gszerm4nyi ut.
J. House of Party Instructors: 2 Csaa utca.
k. County Party School: Postakert utca.
1. Party organs and offices;
1.) 10 Magos GyOrgy
2.) 58 CsapO utca.
3.) 2 Arany Amos utca.
4.) 7 Bethlen utca.
5.) 38 Bethlen utca.
6.) 58 Vergs Hadsereg utja.
7.) 28 VOrgs Hadsereg utja.
8.) 51 Kossuth utca.
m. Russian Institute of the University, Russian teachers and political leaders:
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1 Rakosi Matyas ter.
n. Editorial offices of the daily newspaper Debrecen: 8 Kossuthrutca.
o. Cadre training School of the Ministry of Education: 12 Erdesor.
P. MHK (Mtinkara Harcra Kesz or Redy for Work and Fight) movement: lc Simonffy
utca. (Cadre training, lectures, and instruction).
AVH (LlamvAelmi HatO41 State Security Authority), 20 Kossuth Bajos utca.
q.
r. City police; 20 Kossuth utca.
s. Training District Headquarters No. VIII, Hungarian State Police: 6 Wesselenyi
utca.
t. County court: 9 Sz4ch?nyi utca. Prison: 1 Monus Ills utca.
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Military court and prison; 1 Honved utca, Military prosecutor's office: 1
Honved utca.
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3. At the Airfield.
a. Weather forecasting service of the Meteorological Institute.
b. Office of the Hungarian-Soviet Civilian Aviation.
c. Radio station of the Radio Technical Enterprise (114diLlszaki
d. Soviet commandant's office.
e. Soviet military commandant's office.
f. Soviet Traffic Control Committee.
g. Airport building construction office.
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h. Concrete Road Building Enterprise, Construction Management No. 106.
i. Airport detachment of MRSZ (Magyar Rep&A'Savetsjg or Hungarian Flyers'
Association).
j. Repair shops.
k. Aviation fuel control office.
4. Postal Service.
a. General Directorate: 5 Hatvan utca.
b. Telephone and telegraph line inspectorate: Deri t4r. (The head of the eastern
long-distance line inspectorate is a Russian who speaks Hungarian fluently. The
head of the Debrecen Postal Directorate is Zsuzsanna KirLly).
c. Office of telephone and telegraph line inspection group: 5 Hatvan utca.
d. Morse school of SZHSZ: DIri
e. Radio training school of MSZSZ: D4ri tSr.
5. Public Utilities.
a. Electric Power Distributing Enterprise (Villamosenergigt Szolgefltat6 Vlilalat):
1.) Business offices: 11 Mikepercsi ut.
2.) Installation department: 15-17 Batthyhanyi utca.
3.) Power-net department and workshop: 14 Rgloczi utca.
b. Debrecen Electric Power Works: 1 Mikepercsi ut. Manager: Tibor Losinszky. (The
real manager is a Soviet citizen.)
C. City Water Works: Balmazujv?rosi ut.
d. Tisza Valley Water Works Building Enterprise (Tiszamenti Vizmgepitg
1 Deli sor. Laborer homes and camps: Szoboszlai ut.
6. Institutions.
a. Research Institutes:
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1.) I9stitute of Experimental Physics: 18a Magos Gyorgy tr. Director: Professor
Sandor Szalay.
2.) Institute of Organic Chemistry: 4 Simonyi utca. Director: Professor B4ia
Tanko.
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3.)
National Institute of Public Hygiene: Clinical bindings.
4.)
Meteorological Institute: Nagyerdg (municipal forest).
5.)
Experimental station of Institute of Heat Technology (Hgtechnikai
Int4zet): 1 Mikepercsi ut.
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County Institute for Quality Testing (Megyei Minosegvizsgalo Intezet):
9 T6thfalussy SAndor ter.
7.)
"Horizont" bookstore for Russian language publications.
b.
8.)
Technical University for the Building Industry.
and.
1.)
Municipal and university clinics: Clinics area (Klinikai
telep).
2.)
Municipal Clinic for Venereal Diseases: 2 Ttehfalussy tiro
3.) Auguszta Sanatorium: Nagyerdg. Director: Ferenc Pongor M.D. (Partly
under Russian management.)
4.) Lying-in home: 5 Bocskai t4r.
5.) Jewish Hospital: 8 Desk Ferenc utca.
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6.) City Hospital: 19 Magos Gyorgy ter.
7.) Institute of Criminal Pathology: 78 Sztalin Kgrut.
8.) Anna Pauker Nurse Training School: 59 VgrO's Hadsereg utja.
9.) Hungarian Red Cross: 59 Vdres Hadsereg utja.
10.) Blood donating station: Clinics area, 78 Sztalin kgrut.
11.) Artificial Limb Factory, Branch No II: 73 Vgrgs Hadsereg utja.
12.) Medical Instrument Manufacturing Enterprise: 5 Ispottay utca.
13.) "HajdusAg" Pharmaceutical Factory: 3 Somogyi-Bacso utca.
14.) Clinics: 78 Sztalin Kgrut.
7. tgacellaneous Public Buildine.
a. State Prosecutor's Office: 9 Sz4chenyi utca.
b. Headquarters, Fire Department: 43 Csapo utca.
c. National Council of Trade Unions: 22-24 VOrNs Hadsereg utja.
d. County tractor station center: 488 Bellegele.
e. Mechanization Center (Gepesitesi kgzpont) of the County Council: 4 Hid utca.
f. Mavaut (bus service of the Hungarian State Railroads) depot: 11-15 Args
Hadsereg utja.
g. Retail stores: 18 drOt Hadsereg utja.
8. Internment Camp.
A camp in the vicinity of Elep Puszta and Elep Tanya, with a capacity of 10,000
persons.
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9. Food Supply.
a. Refrigerator: near the airfield.
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b. Refrigerator: in the municipal slaughter house.
C. Pig fattening farm: Tengergsz utca.
d. Animal Trading Enterprise: 58 VOA Hadsereg utja. Collecting depot: 3 Bihari
utca.
e. Poultry hatching farm: 3 Monostorpalyi ut.
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f. Poultry-Processing Enterprise, plant No. 1: 9 Dioszegi ut. Plant No. 2: 10b
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Vagohid utca. Refrigerator: 10b Vggohid utca.
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Slaughter Animal Trading Enterprise, pig collecting depot: 3 Bihari utca.
h.- Industrial Canteen Food Supply Enterprise for Eastern Hungary, Kitchen No. 1:
86 Teleki utca.
1. Mezcler (County Vegetable and Fruit Trading Enterprise): 32 Hatvan utca. Branch
No. 1: 22 Szech4nyi utca.
East Hungarian Public Storage Enterprise: 5 Holl O Jsfnos utca; Depot No. 1:
5 Holl 6 Jano% liVa; Depot No. 2: 16 Hid utca; Depot No. 3: 2 Pesti utca; Depot
No. 4: 59 Szechenyi utca.
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10. Railroads and Roads.
a. Directorate of the Hungarian State Railroads: 18 v614 Hadsereg utja. Assigned
to this directorate are a Russian commandant, a political department, and a
military-political detachment.
b. Office of the Industrial Railroad spur at the Depot No. 1 of the East Hungarian
Public Storage Enterprise: 5 Ho116 Jgnos utca.
c. Railroad Track Building and Maintenance Enterprise: 1 Varga utca.
d. Central Directorate of the Rod. Maintenance Enterprise: 1 Battwanyi utca.
Managing Director: Gyergy Kovacs.
11. Factories.
a. Debrecen Hosiery Factory: 42 Csap6 utca.
b. Clothing factory: 5-9 Domb utca.
c. Debrecen Uniform Manufacturing Enterprise: 14 Kossuth utca.
d. "Hajdusgg" Leather Factory: 3 Vggohid utca.
e. Debrecen Textile Mills: 32 Bethlen utca.
f. Mihaly Tancsics Shoe Factory: 3b BeszlIrmenyi ut.
g. Debrecen Bent Wood Furniture Factory: 5 Salttrom utca.
h. Plain (AdfOldi) Brick Factory: 462 Bellegelg.
i. Hajdu County Brick Factories' Association: 642 Be11ege18.
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j. Debrecen Technical Supply, Small Machine, and Bicycle Enterprise: oo Voros
Hadsereg utja.
k.
Auto Repair Enterprise, main plant: 1 Gysfr utca; plant No. 1: 24 Szecheinyi utca.
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Debrecen Locksmith and Iron Foundry Enterprise: 4 Ketmalom utca; iron and metal
foundry: 59 Szecynyi utca; building locksmith shop: 36 Kossuth utca; iron
foundry: 5c Bartok Bela utca.
in. East Hungarian Roller Bearing Factory near Ebespuszta.
nc Debrecen Railroad Car Factory: former repair shop of the Hungarian State Railroads.
12. Soviet Consulate: lc Arany Janos utca.
13. Hajnal utca is the workers' district.
14.
The residential sections are mostly in Besz8rmenyi ut, Dobozi utca, Baranyai utca,
and ZAkAny utca.
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