LADISLAS DOBOS - LOUIS GIBARTI - LADISLAO DOVOSGAS - ALFRED FELLER

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005632259
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• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00726
• Publication Date: July 8, 1949

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TTemorandum
D Hungary oh 26 April 1895. His
jg~
r. Jose BOS,
and mothers Iran
sOBOS, are still alive and living in
Budapest. DOBOS also aiste
has a 9 living'in,Budapest and'a brother,
Lieutenant Colonel E. I BOS
y~Dp , U.S. Army, Senior Surgeon, Department of
j Health, reported in April 1947 to be living.in Denver,, Colorado.
2. In 1913 DOBOS received a bachelor's degree at the University of
y?,. } Budapest. In the summer of 1913 he studied political science at Oxford
University for three months. From 1913 to 1915 he studied lasi and economics
.at the University of Budapest and at the Vienna Hochschule fur Welthandel.
--In 1915 he became a lieutenant of artillery in the Austrian army and later
')commanded a battery of mountain howitzers.. In 1918 he returned to Budapest
'military mission in the area of
gary under uounr.7tuutukxr a presaaency.
With the establishment of the Be
dictatorship in Barth 1919, DOBOS
was sent to fight against the Czec
and Rumanians whp had invaded Hungary.
N, 3. In December 1919 DOBOS'went to Vienna and opened t ue Europa,
Press Bureau.. At the s time, he continued his. studies in the fie of
political economy and gr4'ated from the &,;hschule fur Welthandel. He also
has a degree of Doctor of law and Political Science, from the, University f"
Budapest. ,
aas 4? While in Vienna DOBOS met Fridtjoi ISEN whm.mas then trave
4r$hroughaut Europe enlisting aid for famine relief in the ]over Volga
.1 regions. At NANSEN's iniitat' n DOBOS participated in the conference. at
~'hicii relief organizatio ternational Workers Relief $gs.$oviet Russia,
&' ~htternationale Arbeiter e, H was orme3?17iU1$ CENZE1BEaG, a
yr Y ea g German Communist and old associate o# LENIN, who had'been delegated
5. Due to the fact that a nt r o n s in 1921 he
came the International Secret 1~~ ~~~~held until 1927?
This was the beginning of a long collaborat33`h Bgt'Met'Da80S and tTG TZ MMG.
In 1926, having coma completely under the influence of Willi tITENZF2TB TG,
DOBOS joined the German Communist Party. Betry,~Q2]w adz, in his
capacity as the'International Secretary of the IS12, DOBOS travellecl:to
Russia, Ireland,'Scandinavia, Czechoslovakia, SsritzerIand, France, England,
Japan, Chips, and the United States. He maaa hie first trip to Russia in
,~1922 in the company of Fridtjof TIATTSEN.
G '4t 6. In 7, at the suggestion o.f Willi IIINZFZWERG, DOBOS set abogt
by ; sYa~~a`yr.ai ague Against erialism and Colonial Oppression. In the
 same year, he was elected International Secretary of the League at the
Brussels Conference, where it }was created.
7. In 1929 DOBOS resigned from the League to take up his work with
the IWR in +h.~ IIn;ted Staten, wh z e he organized an American branch of that
organization. Before going to the United States he went to Moscow for
briefing in order that he might be able to start an American branch of the
Friends of the Soviet Union. This he also accomplished by making use of
the American branch of the IWR. He chatacterized this effort as "malting
sentimental propaganda for the Soviets", through a variety of projects such
as the reception of Soviet rotnd the-world fliers, collecting funds for
shipping modern agricultural equipment to Russia, making' personal campaigns
among the intelligentsia, and lecturing at women's clubs,, universities, etc.
After two years of this DOBOS returned to Berlin and worked for the, 1TIR for
a few i ?itn Ti -
8. 1931 DOBOS was active in the organization of the Comintern-
spo redeague Against War and Fascism, of which he was elected Secretary
General. In 1933'with Hitler's advent to power, DOBOS fled to France with
Willi ?9i21ZIF1BERG?..where he collaborated in -siting and publishing anti-
Hitler and anti-Franco works.
Fdarley Com tee Agg jtk>A . e fie- ,, to which Lor RLEY had leant
his name in ignorance of the fact that DOBOS was a'Communist working for
the Cmintern. After the burning of the Reichstag, DOBOS helped organize
the ternational Inquiry Commission on the Burning of the 1.chstag, In
Jun 1934 DOBOS came to the United States' and, organized t rican
wiry 'sion into the Hitler Terror of which Clarenc ', OW was
lected chauwan a `ot me ers .-were Arthur Garfield 'Es, Dudley Field
TAKE and George Gordo TILE. The , riaam Ingpi -Commissiona
meetings were held under t aegis of the w York County wye, s_;
Association and took place in their build' g. -]3 ettWeen 1934 -And 1938 DOBOS
spent most of his time in the United States contacting bow groups, Jewish
groups, and anyone interested in fighting the Nazis.
10. During this period }?e edited the'anti-nazi Pape olksecbo said
to have been the successor ter Arbeiter, a Communist daily. Although
not issued as a Communist Par? y organ, it was controlled absolutely by
Communi t and its editorial policies always coincided with those of the
New Yor, ally Worker. At this time DOBOS represente~eltfilm GmbH in,
the Unit d States. In his visa application of 18 September 193e
stated that#'his address in the United State_ would be in care o `4 ma-
tra a Inc: 723 Seventh Avenue, Plew Yorlc ' is was the same address as
the I , official Soviet agency import So et films. In 1936 DODOS
and llm
oge 9LD'IN founded thG Ledical. Bureau of erican Friends of Nhish.
when the*Rassemblement Universal pour Is Paix was formed in Europe as a
result'of the failure of the League inst bar and Fascism to reach many
people, DOBOS and the French,General~UDROUX campaigned for the RUP in the
United States.
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7.1. 1938 marked a change in DOBOS' political orientation, according
to his own statements. Until-1936 he had gladly followed Comintern policy
because he believed in the ideal of, Communist revolution; however as the
Comintern became primarily an instrument of Russian nationalism he became
alienated. However, it was only when his guide and mentor i illi TIUEiTZE IBERG
was expelled from the Party in 1938 that DOBOS resitned, protesting in his
letter of resignation against iE!IZEPTBERG's expulsion.
12. In 1938 Willi LCENZE[IBERG founded i.e Zukunft, a newspaper dedicated
to bringing about a united democratic front with the exclusion of the
Communists. DOBOS [e-mail] three articles a week which were
published under his pen-nameog'JEFFERSONTAN"".
13. In 1940 DOBOS parti 'gated in a committee of exiled Hungarians
der' the leadership of IaszlWith the adva ce of the Germans on
Paris, he fled to T=arseille where he contacted ; llaltez QBEIINfl GHAUS of the
~(1nternational Transport Federation. Varian IS Y sent him to Spain with
BENNINCIIAUS with the intention of getting him to Portugal and thence to
England or America. DOBOS reached Hadrid on 8 May 1941 and was arrested on
19 May 1941. From that date until tray 1945 he spent mostly in Spanish
prisons and concentration camps. After his release he got a job with the
Press Bureau of the Unitarian Service Committee in Paris. DOBOS later
denounced FIELDS as being a member of the Communist Party and left the
Unitarian Service Committee in 1946. In 1947, was employed with UNESCO
in Paris and was contributing `articles to the rah 'buns des Nations. No
more recent information on DOBOS is available in our files.