SPY CASES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200730001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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sentences by a Budapest military tics was accused by Magyar Neinzet-
court in June. Dr. Lehel Egedy drew on July 3 of spying for the CIA while
it 15-year prison term, his father, Dr.'ostensibly doing private research on
', ? Elemer Egedy, ten years, and Laszlo Hungary's foreign trade. Montias
?;y Asboth,' a teacher, 14 years. (See visited Hungary in 1965-66 under an
East k iirope, April, p.? 4Z.) Both pi o- exchange, agreement between the In
secution and defense have appealed. stitute of Cultural Relations in Hun
During the trial, the plosecutinggary and the Inter-University Com-
o(Iicial strongly attacked the Ameri- mittee on Travel Grants in the US.
can CIA for its "methodical" espion- Montias told UPI (July 4) that he
age against communist countries, and was not connected with the CIA in
ti :. 'further charged that the neighboring zany way and added that he was not
Austrians wink compliantly at Amer- even a government consultant.
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lean agents working on their terri- On June 13 the Budapest central'
K;. tory. district court opened trial against'
tat and her accomplices'
wi"
Commenting on the trial, 7Vep3za-'Julia
badsag (June 4) appealed to tourists for foreign currency violations; she
visiting the West and Hungarians had been ryuestioned as a witness:
traveling on official business to be earlier during the Egedy trial. (MTI, ;;,
especially careful not to get entangled June 13.) Other arrests were noted; .
in the CIA network. The entire popu- of West Germany accused of try-
lation was warned to be careful when ling to help relatives from Past Ger-:~.
speaking with foreigners, and to many escape through Hungary. Radio;:
guard the secrets of the state. In an Budapest reported on June: 7 ',that:
editorial on June 7, Magyar Nemzet Thomas Seidel of Brorn 'r)raven, was:'
picked up the theme but further at- being held in preliminaryy arrest, an
. tacked the "the anti-popular regimelreported aimilar`case involving;
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