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LEADERSHIP OF THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICE
DIRECTOR GENERAL
Biography of Lieutenant General Eng. KÁROLY MADARÁSZ
Director General
Date of birth: 7th December 1952, Győr
Career:
1975 Commissioned as First Lieutenant. He has always been serving at the Military Intelligence Office or at its predecessor organizations
1975 – 1977 Deputy Company Commander, then Company Commander, SIGINT Regiment
1978 – 1983 Desk Officer, 2nd Directorate of General Staff, HDF
1983 – 1985 Secretary to the Military Attaché Office, Cairo, Egypt
1985 – 1991 Head of Section, 2nd Directorate of General Staff, HDF (MIO after 1990)
1991 – 1995 Military and Air Attaché, Helsinki, Finland
1996 – 2001 Head of Subdepartment, later Head of Department, Deputy Director HUMINT, Military Intelligence Office
2001 – 2007 Deputy Director General for Operations, Military Intelligence Office
2007 Acting Director General, Director General, Military Intelligence Office
1971 – 1975 Military Academy, Budapest
1978 – 1981 War College, Budapest
1998 Intelligence Directors’ Course, Chicksands, United Kingdom
2004 DIA Joint Military Intelligence Directors’ Course, Washington, US
2005 Senior Executive Seminar, Marshall Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Civilian profession:
Telecommunication engineer
Languages:
English, German
Promotions:
1975 First Lieutenant
1980 Captain
1981 Major
1987 Lieutenant Colonel
1997 Colonel
2002 Brigadier General
2006 Major General
2007 Lieutenant General
Decorations:
Awarded by 10 decorations including the Commander's Degree of Knight's Order of the Lion of Finland and the Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
1975 Márton Koncz-Prize conferred by the Minister of Defense
Marital status:
Married (Györgyi), with two daughters.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL
Biography of
Major General Engineer ANDRÁS TÓTH
Deputy Director General
Career:
1980 – 1983 After graduating from the university, he was appointed as a survey officer at the 6814 Mapping Battalion and later at the Astrogeodetical Station of the Cartographical Institute
1983 – 1989 Desk Officer, 2nd Directorate of General Staff, HDF
1989 – 1993 Foreign tour
1993 – 2001 Various leading posts at the predecessor of the Military Intelligence Office, then at the Military Intelligence Office
2001 – 2003 Deputy Director HUMINT, Military Intelligence Office
2003 – 2007 HUMINT Director, Military Intelligence Office
2007 Deputy Director General, Military Intelligence Office
Post-graduate education:
2002 – 2005 Doctoral candidate at the PhD School of Military Sciences of the Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University, Budapest
Preparing for the defense of his doctoral thesis
Languages:
Russian, Italian and English
Promotions:
2007 Brigadier General
2008 Major General
Academic activities:
Member of the Academic Committee of the MIO, Chairman of the Intelligence Review's Editorial Board
Decorations:
Awarded many times during his military career, among others by the Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
Marital status:
Married, with two children.
Hobby:
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