REBEL DISSENSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00280R001300030013-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 31, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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TELETYPED INFORMATION REPORT
Chin material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United Statas wl htn'tbe meaning of the Bapiottage.L.r4 lU.
39, U.&C Sacs. 793 and 794. the transmission or rewItlon of which in any utaruter to an unauthorfaad parson is prohibited by law.
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REBEL DISSENSION
Pwace0aNCE PRIORITY
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1. IN S , THE REVOLUTIONARY NATIONAL COUNCIL HAD ALREADY BEEN
REELECTED FOR A SECOND TIME BY 29 OCTOBER. NEW ELECTIONS WERE HELD
IN ThE MORNING OF 30 OCTOBER. THE SECOND NATIONAL COUNCIL NOW INCLUDES THE OLD
COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY, BUT A FAR HIGHER PROPORTION OF MIDDLE-CLASS PEOPLE, CON-
SISTING OF MANY FORMER OFFICERS, ENGINEERS AND EX-OFFICIALS WHO WERE IMPRISONED AND
PERSECUTED DURING THE RAKOSI REGIME. ONLY THE SECRET POLICE WERE COMPLETELY IGNORED
AND REGARDED AS A DISBANDED ORGANIZATION. THE WORKERS IN THE LOCAL FACTORIES
CGMPLAINED, HOWEVER, THAT THE SECOND NATIONAL, COUNCIL NOW CONTAINED TOO MANY EX-
071 FTCF.RS AND FASCISTS. A MEETING WAS CALLED FOR THE. EVENING, AND FURTHER PERSONNEL
CHANGES ArLT2 EX EC'1'ED TO BE MADE IN ORDER TO COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE EXTREME LEFT-
WING C?O'4POSITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL COUNCIL AND THE EXTREME RIGHT-WINC COMPOSITION
OF THE SECOND.
IN THE COUNCIL AT RABA FUEZES, ALL OLD COMMUNISTS HAVE BEEN EXCL'.IDED' 4*D
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THE LOCAL fi1124ENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER AND A NUMBER OF RIGHT-WING MIDDLE-CLASS
PEASANTS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. THE COLLECTIVE FARMS IN RABAFUEZES AND IN THE VILLAGE
OF JAKABHAZA ARE STILL IN EXIS*CE, AS THE LOCAL POPULATION IS NOT SURE WHETHER TO
DISBAND THEM THIS YEAR OR TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT' SPRING.
3. IN SZOMBATHELY, SOLDIER COUNCILS HAVS DISARMED AND DISBANDED ALL
Qk n~.T POLICE FORMATIONS. THE LIEUTENANT ALLEGES THAT THE BORDER GUARD SOLDIER
COUNCILS ARE STILL IN CONTACT WITH THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR IN BUDAPEST, BUT ONLY
CARRY OUT SUCH ORDERS AS THEY THEMSELVES APPROVE.
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