EASTERN EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79B00864A001200020038-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: October 27, 1972
• Content Type: STUDY

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27 Oct. 72
Hungary Grants Overflight Rights to Pan Am
Budapest has approved a Pan American Airways' request to
overfly Hungary without raising the question of reciprocity.
In acceding to Pan Am's request, relayed informally through
the Embassy, the Hungarians evidently chose to ignore those
provisions of last May's bilateral air agreement, which
explicitly made the rights of overflight applicable only to.
a "designated airline" of each contracting party. The US was
not prepared either to make Pan Am its "designated airline"
or to entertain a request that the Hungarian carrier Malev
should enjoy similar status. This departure from past Hungarian
handling of civil air requests, however, testifies to Budapest's
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