Q & A

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000500280001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 16, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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16 NOV 1971
By ROBIN ADAMS SLOAN
Q. Is there any chance Cardinal
Mimiszenty might visit us here in Amer-
ica after all his years of asylum in the
U.S. Embassy in Budapest? Many people
of Ilungarian descent would be thrilled
to see him.-D. F., New York.
A. The cardinal, once Jozsef Pehrn,
who changed his name to a more Hun-
ga,~ian one after he
became an archbish-
op, will probably not
visit the U.S. Prompt-
ly on his arrival in
Rome he loosed a
blast at his hosts of 15
years, blaming our,.
CIA and. Voice of
America broadcasts
for sucking Hungar-
ians into the armed
uprising which the Russians crushed in
1956. Since CIA-financed propaganda is
currently a ticklish question just before
the upcoming Munich Olympic Games
and the presidential election next year,
the Vatican, in a gesture of friendship
to the U.S., sent the cardinal off for safe-
keeping to aViennese seminary. For the
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