SPY CASES

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000200730001-2
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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November 11, 2016
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June 18, 1999
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1
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Publication Date: 
August 1, 1966
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NSPR
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.,.E.-AST EUROPE App-roved For:''Reieese,;l.9I 17Zg6CIA-RDP7,! ?STATINTI :Spy Cases try to foreign in e.igence organrza Three Hungarians ATFMCM IN136 were given stiff hn Michael Mon winter for s in py g 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. I 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; `1?A7LNTL