RESTRICTION OF RELIGION

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CIA-RDP80-00810A008600850002-5
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RIPPUB
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S
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1
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December 21, 2016
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June 2, 2008
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2
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Publication Date: 
December 20, 1955
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REPORT
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Approved For Release 2008/06/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A008600850002-5 U FOR M A MM REPORT MFOQMATOO I R POR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. Hungary Restriction of Religion DATE DISTR. 20 December 1955 25X1 NO. OF PAGES DATE OF INFO. PLACE ACQUIRED REFERENCES DATE ACQUIRED SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE 1. Contrary to the officially-voiced policy of freedom of religion and clerical school instruction, the government printing house is not producing the textbooks required by religious educators, 20 In October 1955 it was discovered that religious textbooks were being illegally printed on a stencil machine for projected large-scale dissem- ination. Consequently, ten Dominicans, two Jesuits and one Franciscan were arrested and charged with the illegal distribution of religious literature in various country towns. They have not yet been brought to trial and their fate is uncertain. 3. Cardinal Joszef Mindszenty is confined in the Pecsi Puspok country home at Bakonypoloske in the Veszprem district, where his mother has been permitted to visit him on only one occasion. The house is under twenty- f^r hour u --A S E-C R.E,T (Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".) OMFOIRAA' Ox REPOG3 MFOQMQTUOM QC POP Approved For Release 2008/06/02 : CIA-RDP80-00810A008600850002-5