AUSTRIAN FORTS BELIE NEUTRAL POSTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400050010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 12, 1961
• Content Type: PREL

FBIS JUL 12 1961
Sanitized - Approves For Release
12 July 1961
10-5
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AUSTRIAN FORTS BELTE. WEUTRAL..POSTURE
Budapest Hungarian Information Service
Missions 0900 GMT 11 July 1961--L
(Summary of MAGYAR NEMZET article)
in Hungarian to
CPYRGHT
Diplomatic
(Text) Austrian War Minister Schleinzer announced
that a line of fortifications had been construe
Hungarian frontier. The following questions
does Austria want to defend itself with a
Are such preparations for war compatib
accepted eternal. neutrality? How do
to finance such schemes?
As for the first question, th,
some time watched with anxi
Austrian tourists visit
an ever deeper impact
great danger by som
second question,
to renouncing
interests of
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concrete
Austri
other day
along the
se: Against whom
uated concrete forts?
th its voluntarily
Austrians find the money
ustrian bourgeois press has for
the steadily increasing number of
ngary. The example of socialism has
d it seems that this is regarded as a
;ustrian circles. In connection with the
objective of such measures is to pave the way
rality and thus endangering the fundamental
e Austrian people. As for the third question, all
oints to the same direction: West Germany. The
rtain on Austria's frontier is the defense line not of
neutrality but of West Germany's revanchist and militarist policy.
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