DOCUMENT ON FREE HUNGARIAN PLANS.

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: November 29, 1944
• Content Type: CABLE

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DOCUMENT ON FREE HUNGARIAN PLANS.
From: NEW YORK
To: MOSCOW
Hoe: 1669-1672, 167)4-1675 29-30 Nov. 1944
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[Part I] To VICTOR.
PAPANEK[1] has passed on to SERGEJ[n] an
English 'ranslation of a note in Hungarian which Tibor
ECKHALDTLiiii lost in a taxi among a number of other
documents. [13% 7.cle driver] of the taxi handed. the gind
over to the Kh:..TALiv..1 and the latter :through IZBALv-I
entrusted the translation to a ?Hup.garian (we will try to
find out his name) from VAMBERY'sl.vii group who then
passed the translation on to, PAPANEK. The note, dated
the 27th of October and written in ECKHARDT's own
handwriting, says:
"1. Advice to the Hungarian Government:
(a\ Hold the line, of the Danube. '
(I Retreat in the directien?NAGYKANIZSA-M4RBURGLvii
(c .In no circumspances withdraw in -L,E) direction
S'OPRON-VIENNAL vil ( indeed the Government
should not withdrawL;] it should remain with
? the troops).
2. Arrange' the PATHY[a][1)d affair. through BARCZA[x]; ,
answer him.
My passport and trip to Europe (LISBON).
Request addressetd to BALASY[xi [As long as a.
definite compromise is not possible the only otko.e
alternative should be absolute intransigeancy.]Lb -1
(*Part II] Do not give anything for .nothing. Willingness to
yield would make impossible an acceptable Compromisc4
in the future-. But who knows today what: ttrn our61
will take?
Message to Baron HUHNEFELD..
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Data for GROM7ACH.
Jnmen WARBURG[xii]. ....[r] A Swl,ss banker
drew U's[O] attention to the fact that J.V.LeJ related
this fact in a loud voice to two persons travelling by
train from ".1[c] to N.Y. Lo]. Half the carriage could
hear. UH] rang WleJ to hold baeh [C5 SCHMIDT] (SCH-T)[].
He was taken off the ship. LL;]
On a separate sheet of pope:
"Microfilm of "BUDAPEST-KOZLONY"[xiiii ; telegraph PATHY[ix]
copy to .;-UDSON [DZhADSON][xiv]; answer FREY[R][xv] and
SAMGOND1L X71 J , ... 1
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[Part III] [tO groups unrecovered]
which we have omitted as not
[Fart TV
[55 groups unrecoverable]
A" after HORTHY's broadcast of the 15th o4' October
with the aim of reviving the "Independent Hungary"
movement and the eventual formation of a Hungarian
government 9r [2 groups unrecovered] "Committee of
Emissaries' [h]
? [15 groups unregovered]
with HORTHY's people for founding anew movement. In view.
ofrHORTI4Y's. tactlessness the talks came to an end and
E.LxviiJ returned to WASHINGTON. In 'analysing- these
notes these talks must be borne in.mind as it is possible.
that there is a connection between them. - Point by
Point
t. Evidently this Communication :was intended for
HORTHY and someone gave it to E. to transmit to .BUDAPEST.
E. could hove sentit in particular through Count Gabor
BETHLENlxviiii (former counsellor Of the mission in
ROME, member of. BARCZA'sfxJ committee of emissaries[h],
son of the former PrilTie minister [)][j],George PATHY[ix]
( a shipowner in Il group unregovered] AWlo-Egyptian
Steamship Line), Frank DEAKlxixJ (professer of Columbia
University, neW in ROME where he has Fon as representative
of Pan-A a. merican Airways), Andrew FREY[*v journalist
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at present in ISTANBUL), George BARCZAlx at present in
GENEVA), connected with HORTHY through the Hungarian
envoy at the Vatican, Baron Gabor APORixxJ and finally in
a [01;b disguised] form through the Swedish mission which
represents the interests of Hungary ( .
[29 groups unrecoverable]
towns]. The ;rincipal role in these affairs is
played by PATHYLix] and [C,-, BATOR]There is no doubt that
E. in Flubsirlineld from this fund.
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3. Undoubtedly E. is preriring to depart. cooperate1
i6 at present in Europe and E. always used to
with him.'
4. The subject is an exchanr:e of telegrams in he
last few weeks between BARCZA[xJ and Antal BALASYLxxii].
BARCZA's grew) was sounding WASHINGTON through BALASY
on the subject of an armistice which WASHINGTON was
putting off.
J? Baron HdH=ELD .acoording to available infermation
[68 groups unrecovered]
is an Austrian magnate at present living in LISBON, is
connected with the monarchists.
[C,, The notes] about WARBURG etc. E. could only
have made on the basis of information received through
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connections in the LEAGUE [LIGA]Lxxiii).
???
Microfilm can be brought into the COUNTRY
[STRANA][xxiv] either, by the RADIO STATION [RATsIYa] [xxv]
or by IZBA[v], consequently someone from the LEAGUE is
?helpinr.:7 E. There is a letter signed by jUDSON [DZhADSON][xxvi]
which asks E. to let the microfilm be read
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[8 groups unrecovered]
. It is possible that.th micilofilm does not contain
only the newspaper KOZLONYixtiij. JUDSON is evidently
a go-between between E. and LISBON in Nicaragua the
military attach6 the COUNTRY[xxivj is Major Frederick
JUDSON).
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[Pert VI] FREYA-,v] ? is a representative of the RADIO STATION
??- ? .
[RATsIya][xxvi, whom they. are trying to send into Hungary as
a newspaper cor-Pospondent. SAMSONDI is a pseudonym of Count
Gabor BETHLEN [xviii,.
Among the documents that were found there is
[10 .:Toups unrecovered]
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Transylvania[xxii].. ?
[19 .groups unrecovered]
their [1 Group unrecoirered] noticeably requires careful
investigation of the.mqtter. ??According to the information of
a source, the KhATALivj has already taken up the investigation
of E
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The Hungarian[ emphasises that there is up
longer any doubt that E. has CO= to the COUNTRYL xxivj as an
agent of HORTHY .4t'la 15,600 dollars for expenses.
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mAyts [mAj][xxix]
note. Detailed information about
PATHY, FREY and other Hungarians and their connections with
E. and other persons has been appended to the summau. Are
they to be telegraphed or sent by post?
No. 929 MAY
T.N. : [a] Given in Latin letters in the original.
[b] This section is for technical reasons
unrecoverable and has been inserted from the
English translation in the possession of the
F.B.I.
[c] Some such word as "affairs" appears to have
been omitted from the original.
[d] The missing portion of the note (omitted from
the signalled text) in given in the crib as
follows:
"A few days before the rePatriation of the
German diplomats, Father SCHULTZ, a priest,
was requested probably by German spies to
undertake to organise a pro-American
underground with the German military ?
authorities. He was going to be repatriated."
[e] In the crib James WARBURG is abbreviated to
"J.W.". W. and N.Y. are given in full as
WASHINGTON and NEW YORK in the crib, while U
and the second W are given in the abbreviated
form in quotes.
Given in Latin letters in the original. In the
version available as a crib this name is given
as SCHULTZ (see T.N. [d]).
The crib shows the r(lissing portion of the
note as follows:
"OSS ? has recently sent ? some agents to Austria
as English agents.. .Three men in SALZBURG
negotiated with them and on the same day they
irere shot." ?
The Russian For "emissaries" in the signalled
text is PCSLANNIKI. The crib translates this
phrase as "Committee of Ministers".
The text omits this final bracket which it
norms necenrar7 to innert at this point.
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Comments: [i] PAPANEK, Jan: hcad of the Czechoslovak
Information Service in NEW YORK CITY.
[ii] SERGEJ: Vladimir. Serr.covich PRAVDIN.
[iii] Tibor VON ECKHARDT: President of the
Executive Committee of the "Tnternational
OrTanisation for an independent Hungary".
While in the U.S.A. formed the Hungarian
People's Commission.
[iv] KhATA: the Federal Bureau of Investiation
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[v] IZBA:.the Office of Strateic Services (0.S.S.).
[ vi
VAMBERY, Professor Rusztcm; scholar and jurist,
leader of Free Hunarian Movement in NEW YORK:
chairman of the Committee for a New Democratic
Hungary. Was attorney for Matyas RAKOSI.
Minister to the U.S.A. Sept. 1947; resigned
19 May 1948; died 29 Oct 1948.
[vii] MARBURG or MARIBOR in Yugoslavia. In other
words in a South-Westerly direction.
[vlii] I.e. in a North-Westerly direction.
[ix] PATHY, George S, (son of Geza FOLNAUER),
a. wealthy businessman of Hungarian-
Jewish origin in ALEXANDRIA, Egypt.
[x] BARCZA, Gy8rgy von NAGYLASONY, former
Huna.arian Ambassador to LONDON.
[xi] BALASY: a Funn;arian diplomat.
[xii] WARBURG: American banker and author.
He was deputy director of the Office of
War Information from 1942-1944.
[xiii]The official Hungarian Government paper.
[xiv] Sec comment [xxvi] below.
[xv] Lni.ro-: a journalist in the 071 in LISBON.
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SAMSONDI: a pscudona of Count Gabor BETHLEN
(sec [xviii] below).
E.: Presumably ECK=DT.
Count Gabor BETHLEN, son of Stephan
BETHLEN. At the date of this message he
was in LISBON,
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[xix]. DEAZ: reported to have been in LISBON frequently.
[xx] . APOR: closely linked with J?,ETITLEN and
EARCZA.
[xxi] OTTO: probably the Archduke OTTO, pretender
to the throne of Austrr)-Huni,:ary.
[xxii] T1ALAS7: a Uuly:arian .111nmat.
[xxiii]LIGA, the Government of the u.s.A.
[xxiv] STRANA: thQ United States of America.
? [xxv] RATsIYa: the Office of War Information
[0.W.I.].
? [xxvi] This letter, headed "Lisbon, October 6,
in addressed to "Upjack" [who might
? be "U" in para 6 of ECKHARDTts note] and
is in the form of a coverinfr, letter for
t7.o other letters which are for the consider-
ation of the "Professor" presumably
? VAMBERY - sec comment [vi]].and "Uplack".
One is addressed to "Fcri" ?and sifsned
? "Gabor" (who, it appears frrm the JUDSON
letter, is Gabor BE.THLEN). It is principally
concerned with a request to appeal to the
Allies to save a number of the writer's
relations in Hungary. The second letter
was written in French and dated September
? 22nd. According to the JUDSON letter it
. is a letter from "Seto" which Rabbit had
asked him to forward. The writer was
evidntly in touch with the Russians and
discusses the position of Hun-ary in the
post-was settlement of Central Europe.
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rxxv iii The question of Transylvania is mentioned
in the letter written in French referred to
above.
[Xxviii], Le, the Hunrian entrusted by tho
with the translation of the. documents for
the F.B.I.
[xxix] MJJ avol Ivanovich FEDOSIMOV.
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