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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00597A000200140033-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 27, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2004/06/23 : CIA-RDP58-0059
FOR IWEDIATE RELEASE OCT. 27, 1956
FROM THE SENATE INTERNAL SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE
Senator James 0. Eastland (D-Mtse) today put into the record of
the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, of which he is chairman, an
extension of the = testimony of Msgr, Bela Varga, leader of the anti-
Nazi underground in Hungary during World War II and speaker of the
Hungarian Parliament in 1946-470
The testimonyyr was taken by Chief Counsel Robert Morris in Nev
York city yester day afternoon.
Senator Eastland stated, in releasing the testimony of Msgr .. Varga,
that it would indicate that the uprising in Hungary reflects the hostility
of the people to every shade of Communist dictatorship from the Titoist
to the Stalinist variety.
The chairman also expressed admiration for the Hungarian people
who, he said, were, by their action; doing more than the entire free
world to roll back Soviet conquest.
Msgr. Varga, in his testimony, stressed that, if the United Nations
Zwcdoes not act in response to this Soviet aggression, it will
hav e done much to destroy the confidence of the world in its moral
authority.
The text of Msgr. Vargats testimony followst
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