HUNGARIAN FOREIGN OFFICE PURGE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600660010-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 6, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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Hungarian Foreign office FuRptif
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DATE PISTR. 6 July, 1948
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
USE OF TRAINED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
1. Paul Sebestyen, Under-Secretary in the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, recently made a tour of inspection of several Hungarian legations
following the recent purges in the Hungarian diplomatic service. Only
five members of the old diplomatic service survived the purge.
2. According to Sebestyen, the series of purges were much more radical than
the Hungarian Communist Party originally contemplated. Only markedly
anti-Communist elements were. sla*od for elimination, but the Soviets
intervened through the politcal?police and the Political Department of
the War Ministry and demanded thgt a large proportion of the diplomat s
be dismissed. I. was said that pominent Communists, such as George
Heltai of the Political Section ?f the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
were shocked by the ruthlessness of the Russian demands.
3. Sebestyen stated that he submitted his own resignation but the Communists
refused to accept it. His position is extremely vulnerable, he said, as
he was the author of many treaties between Hungary anc' Mimi Gera yo
4. Sebestyen disclosed that the Russians are demanding a rebuilding of the
Hungarian Army, a subject which is becoming the favorite topic in current
Comnuni.st propaganda. The liquidation of resistance on the part of
churches is to be the second political target, and after this aim is ac-
hieved, the Communists plan to proceed with the collectivization of
agriculture.
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