HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC MOVEMENT IN PARIS; CHAIRMAN FATHER JOSEPH KOZI-HORVATH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001900840003-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 18, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Hungary CONFIDE
' I DATE DISTR. 18 October 1948
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SUBJECT Hungarian Catholic Movement in
Paris; Chairman Father Joseph
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On 12 September a F ungaria5L Catholic movement was instituted
in Parts under the leaders.aip of the Reverend Joseph Kozi-
Horvath. The plan for a Frfngarian movement abroad had apparently
been under discussion for some time; but it was only
the arrival of Baron Apor from Rome .which finally brought
'about the actual establist rnent.. of the movement., It is the
opinion of many Hungarians abroad that if a Catholic organiza-
tion could be established "west of the iron curtain". this
group might act as a cou-,terbalance to the extremist movement
headed by General Ferene Farkas.. Farkas has, i the past, openly
boasted of the support o:? the Vatican. Cardinal MIndssenty
in Hungary is expected to approve and he can point to the
.act that a movement comp) sed of Hungarian members of his own
faith abroad exists.
The Reverend Kozi-Horvath, who recently arrived in Paris from
Austria,, has two peasant deputies and six members of the board
of directors as follows:
os Ha jdu-Nemeth
Balint- Czui-)i
Reverend Th'ire Zacser
Reverend Jermos Sztlley (or Reverend Nemeth)
0-al nt Palffyr
Boris do Balla
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Comment: :.3alla is reported to have obtained a
no-ition as professor at Lei oyne College in `3yr,,,.f.n7.S 3, Ne z York.
He is : no7?an to have ?,3d close cont:-ct -7ith MMMahtdt e Otto of
Hisbsburg, )
There have been d.iv-:t?ences of orini_on concerning Count P 1ff',r,
Ttho 9 while being a li tiding figure in Hungarian Catholicism
and politically close to the Prince Primate, is open to attack
because of the Tact ;hat he is divorced. Baron p..por his
cousin, is reported ;o have stressed to Paiffy that the latter
refrain from taking a leading role in the movement.
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