HUNGARIAN FACTORIES WORKING FOR THE SOVIET UNION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100100006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 23, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Hungarian Factories Working for the
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1. This firm has the following departments (with their internal code number
a. General Directorate
Legal section-(A)
Commercial section (A61)
Technical section (I1)
Control and Supervision (EO)
b. Budapest Factory (B)
Factory directorate
Production planning and supervision
Buying and selling section
Social welfare and health department
Personnel section
Production department
Technical department
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MAVAG (Magyar Allami Vas, Aced es Gep), Budapest, Kobanyai utca 21.
2. in the Budapest factories there are the following shops (tee attached sketch):
Locomotive plant
Painting and coppereorking shops
Bridge components shop
Blacksmith shop
Iron foundry
Metal foundry
Tractor and vehicle shops
Hydraulics pump shop
Agricultural machinery (exclusive of tractors)
Joiners shop
Constructional department
Electrical repair shop
File cutting shop
fielding shop
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3. The following is a report on monthly productions
a. Locomotives: six to seven type 424 engines; these are fitted for Soviet
tra.-*s, are delivered under their own steam on normal gauge to Zahony,
and are there converted to wide gauge?
b. Bridge components: double the 1939 production; sent to the Soviet-Unison.
Vel..:cle production: three to four Raba Krupp l and 3-ton trucks.
(1.ceal.consumption).
d. Tr,:tors: thirty 2! h.p. type T 20 tractors for local and Soviet uses
e. Th eshing machines: twelve B type machines sent to the Soviet Union and
1' goslavia.
? f. rump production: very few pumps are now being manufactured.
g. Iron girder work is being constructed for the radio station at Lakihegy,
which is to be enlarged.
4. Tie following are leading personalities at MAVAGs
s., General director: Floreck (first name unknown).
b. Factory director: Engineer Jodal (first name unknown); to be dismissed
shortly.
c. Production adviser: Szatmar (first name unknown); said to be anti-Communist.
Goldberger Samuel F. es Fia R Budapest, Arany Janos utca 32, with a
awry at Budapest, Bu o i utca 103-105.
This factory makes approximately 3,000,000 meters of calico, sheet linen and
flannel a month. Fifty percent of this goes to the Soviet Union, 2; percent
is used for the factory workers and their families, and the remainder is for
general local consumption.
6. The raw cotton is delivered by the Soviet Union. Superoxide for the bleaching
shop comes from Austria. There is in stocka certain amount of chloride and
hydrochloric acid and 200 x 50 kg barrels of pre-war dye from IG Farben.
This is expected to last about six months.
7. The following bottlenecks exist: cotton raw material (which, being delivered
by the Soviet Union, can only be used in materials to be'exported to the USSR
as finished products), the need for new machinery, and lack: of artificial
silk.
8. The factory employs 3,500 workmen and 1.00 admi.nistrative staff working in three
shifts. The spinners and weavers work on Sundays.
9. The head of the factory council is Istvan Matyasi, a Communist.
Szovo IRar3 es Kereskedelnsi tall t, Budapest, Teleki Pal. utca 16.
10. The factories are at Szekszardi utca 19-25. The factory produces half-wool
and all-wool cloth from Soviet raw material. ' '
aapran Ujpeat Textile Factory at Ujpest,. Berni utca
11. The factory produces 70, 90 and 192 cm broau cotton material lengths, 10 cm
broad half wool lengths, and 90 and 190 cm broad artificial silk lengths,,
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Tudor AccumulatorGyar, Veozi utca 137+3,39
12. This factory makes alkaline, acid and dry batteries. Acid batteries only
are sent to Yugoslavia (these are 6 and 12 volt batteries); both dry and
acid batteries are sent to the Soviet Union.
13. No rwr material is received from the USSR; it is all obtained locally.
14. Daily production is at the rate of forty to forty-tyro 6 volt batteries, and
twenty-eight to thirty 12 volt acid batteries. An alkaline battery case in
metal is made for the Hungarian and Soviet armies.
15. The factory employee 250 to 300 laborers on three shifts.
16. The director and his deputy are Soviets, Major Zvolansky and Janos Csirke
(a Hungarian-born soviet citizen) respectively.
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