REPORTS TENSION, UNREST; LISTS USSR AGENTS INFLUENCING HUNGARIAN AFFAIRS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390292-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 292
• Publication Date: May 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/19: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390292-5
".~
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDEI~iidL~~~~~~~~~~~ j ~~.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY gungary; USSR DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
SUBJECT Poli..ical - Internal, Soviet agents
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly newspaper
INHERE
PUBLISHED Munich
DATE
PUBLISHED 23 Mar 1951
LANGUAGE Hungarian
TNIS OOOU Y[NT CONTAIN] IN TONY ATION A11l0TIN0 TN[ NATIONAL D[I[Nfl
O] TNl UNIiIO ]TA flt MITNIM TM[ N[AMIND OI [f I'IO NA[C ACT f0
U. S. C.. ]I AND f1, A] AN[MDL D. IM TIANSNI]SION ON TM[ N[V [CATION
Ot ITt CO NT[N Tf IN AMT YANM[N i0 AM UMAUTNO NI[[D I[N]OM If If 0?
NIfIT[D LT LAM. N[IRODUCTION 01 TNIS PORN If IfONIfIT[D.
DATE DIST. 0 May 1951
N0. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
REPORTS TENSIOA, URREST;
LISTS i188R AGENTS INFLUENCIAG HUNGARIAft AFFAIRS
The Soviet delegates to the Hungarian Workers Party Congress, 25 February -
2 March, Yudia and Ponomarev, were received by the party and the press with the
respect due to ce^querore. Hoxever, editors and orators failed to identify the
two visitors as leading functionaries of the Cominform. Yudia, the deputy of
Suslov, Zhdanov's aucceseor, s~anka second in power and importance in the Comin-
.form, is editc? in chief of the Cominform official organ, and director oP the
Cominform?s Bucharest central office.
During the week of their Budapest visit, the Soviet delegates attended the
p.srty congress for a few hours, but spent Jaya with Soviet representativea-in
Budapest and with members of the Hungarian Politburo.
It is apparent from previous indications that Hungary will continue to
play an important role in Fostering political and military tension in Eastern
Europe. Accurate information is not available, but the excessive secrecy
surrounding the visit of the Cominform leaders is very disquieting to an al-
ready edgy popular morale, although saber rattling sounded at shop political
meetings .and on party days dcea not bet into the press. A silent unrest
exists among the armed forces and the remainder of the nation's men enlisted
in paramilitary organlzrstionse This year, training in these organizations
was carried out with discipline equal to that oP the army.
Unrest is also abetted by the Pact that Sovie+, lenders at the back of
every important Hungarian institution are openly and aggressively interven~bgg
in even the slightest details of administration. Most Soviet representatives
are relatively little known?eacept the Pew officials who come in close contact
with the people.
Principal well-known Soviet figures are Ambassador Yevgenyiy Dmitrovich
Kiselev; First Counselor Smirnov, who hsa a good command of Hungarian; delivers
moat of the public speeches, and has served at Budapest since 1945 as counselor
to several successive Soviet ambassadors; Second Counselor Kuzmin; sad a more
outstanding Figure than Knzmin, Press and Culture Attache Kosev, who is also
director of the Soviet political influence and intelligence agency, the H+angar-
isn-Soviet Society has its headgtldtters in the Rational Casino Building, and
ha.s branches in nearly all counties.
M.lie~7 a~
Y?1~~
CLASSIFICATION COiQFIDENTIAY.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/19: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390292-5
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/19: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390292-5
The following is an incomplete list of "unofficial" Soviet representaitves
in Hungary, drawn mostly from Lesser known sources: General Ba~ko ~oykoY] the
military attache, is a recent arrival in Hungary. 2iis staff consists of mili-
tary officers, headed by Colonels Zuyev and Malevskiy, It is especially dif-
ficult to identify the large number oP Soviet military offiaere assigned to
the Hungarian Army and to the State Security Authority (AVO), since even the
number of staff officers runs into the hundreds. Some Soviet officers attached
to the AVO have assumed Hungarian surnames and their actual identity is not
always known even to Hungarian Communists leaders. 'Phe various branches of
the arm}r have Soviet inspectors. The Soviet railroad transportation directo-
rate, which was never abolished, has expanded and again occupies an entire
floor of the Hungarian State Railroad Directorate building.
Hungarian economy is under equally strict Soviet contrcl. Several thou-
sand Soviet representatives are distributed throughout the country with the
fp,-T^?r r_arc_~nn i_.rar1P And industrial enternriaea which were transferred to Soviet
ownership under the Potsdam agreement. At first, these So~?iet agents operated
under trusteeship offices. Today, Soviet interests in Hungary are managed by
a central office in Budapest with separate branches for industries such as
the Soviet Machine Industry Center, Soviet Textile Industry Enterprises Center,
etc. In effect, Hungarian nationalized enterprises are directed by the USSR,
since no action may be te':en in the National Planning Office without the ap-
proval of a Soviet citizen named Kirov.
The USSR is exerting direct influence in an increasing number of aspects
Cf H'..ng:ria.. l:.Pe. Cotten .."l'ti,rati~r. in Airar+.eA by pnrirPy Skobliknv: oil,-
expert Satvrin exercises close supervision over oil-producing enterprises;
Hungarian water transportation, represented by Hungarian-Soviet Navigation,
Incorporated, is headed by a Soviet citizen, Okhotnikov; and the Huni3arian-
Soviet Civilian Airline is rnn by the Soviets, headed by a high-s?anking air
force officer, named Bochkarev.
The organization and development of the Hungarian youth movement are co-
ordinated by Soviet Army liaison officex? Andrey Poslyak.
The recent convention of Stakhanovite weavers was headed by Boris Simov,
the high-salaried director ~a chief of the Home Combing Mills. The activi-
ties of FroYesaors Petrovskiy and Zhapozhkov in sovietizing Hungarian admini-
stration of national health affairs are too well known to be listed in detail.
The professors' tour of the country is receiving much publicity in the Com-
munist Hungarian press. A man named Krayevskiy has been appointed Soviet
dictator of education, and ten Soviet professors have recei?~?ed teaching posts
at Hungarian universities. Other Soviet personages influencing Hungarian life
are Bela Ills, director in chief of the Athenaeum press, Lieutenant Colonel
Pudovkin, ran incompetent writer, critic, and editor who hounded leading figursa
of the Hungarian film industry for months; Guskov, who is forcing synchroniza-
tion of Soviet and Hungarian films; and thousands of Russian-language instruc-
tors all over the country.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/19: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600390292-5