TIGHTEN MAIL CENSORSHIP IN HUNGARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600360140-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 140
• Publication Date: November 9, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGE'';CY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOC~IMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO,
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT Folitical - Censorship
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED r.unich; New York
DATE
PUBLISHED 1~ Augs 1 Sep 1950
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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DATE DIST. o~ Nov 1950
NO. OF PAGES 2
.SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
TIGHTEN MAIL CENSpRSHIP IN HUNGARY
SE'~"RE CENSORSHIP BEGUN 1 AUGUST -- Munich, Hungaria, 1 Sep 50
Since 1947, foreign mail arriving in the country has been censored at
Eudapest?~ Ernest Gero, then Minister of Communications, organized censor-
ship of the mails in the early drys of Gommnnist control Since November
1947, censorship has beer. under the supervision of the State Security Au-
thority~ Ug to the present, only 25 or ~0 percent of the mail was opened;
packages were examined primarily for nylon stockings, coffee; tes, s?nd ~=o-
coa
Towsrd the end of 1848, the censorship unit imported instruments from
Moscow and Eastern Germsny for examining mail by shining light through let-
ters,for opening and resealing letters without leaving traces, and for making
pho*_ost9tic copies of suspicious .letters,
Until August of this .year, only letters arriving for 1,500 to 1,600 ad-
dreeses and t?he US mail was strictly censored. A file was prepared of those
who