PERSONAL SITUATION OF KAROLYI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001600660011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 6, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

INFORMATIO
Approved For RAMVV W r,
COUNTRY - Hungary
SUBJECT Personal Situation of Karolyi
25X1A
PLACE
ACQUIRE
25X1A
DATE OF TN1i'i
25X1X
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFPCCTINC THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATE$ WITHIN THE DEAI:INO OF THE #SP1)NAOE ACT EO
U. S. C.. 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION ON THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PDO-
HIDITED DY LAW. REPF.ODUCTION OF ?"IS FORM IS PROHIBITED. HOW
LWCR INFORMATION CONTAINED IN DORY of THE PORN IAAT 02 UTILIZED
AS DCEMED NECESSARY MY THE RECEIVING AGENCY.
SOURCE
DA'.\ M,
T;,> d-j" c-it is he;e',by r^2' do.i to
0c,o'..er =. Iron
., ...
~.~c?ct,r of Central In. :I?..i:.? tO
v;st of the United Sfia es.
DATE DISTR. 6 Ju 7 19138
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LtSTEO BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
USE OF TRAINED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
1. Count Michael Karolyi, Hungarian Minister to France, was visited by Paul
Sebestyen of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during which time
Karolyi learned that Bolgar is to be appointed Hungarian Minister to
London, a post Karolyi had long coveted.
26 Karolyi allegedly stated that he is now no longer anxious to represent
Hungary in Great Britain; after the suppression of Czechoslovak inde-
pendence he would find it impossible to offer an explanation for the pro-
Soviet attitude he had preached for ten years among his British friends.
3. Karolyi stated that he learned of daily rumors circulating in Hungary and
abroad to the effect that he would be recalled. Consequently, he is
seeking to secure for himself and his fanily adequate financial means for
an undisturbed life abroad. Recently the Hungarian Government committed
itself to pay some 27 million pengo (about S2,40O,Op0.00) as indemni-
fication for his properties confiscated during the Horthy regime. Karolyi
had insisted that he be paid in foreign currency and the Hungarian Govern-
ment was to pay a ccnsiderable part of this sum at the Hobiliar Bank in
Zurich. Karolyi has allegedly withdrawn five hundred thousand Swiss francs
and brought it to Paris through the Hungarian diplomatic pouch. Karolyi
has recently purchased a house in London.
_ N4 CHANGE' in Clans
Document No.
DECLASSIFIED,
s. CHANG
25X1A
2-0045PT6d?
ORT 216686
Approved For Release 2000/0$ R RDP82-00457ROO1600660011-4