HUNGARIAN PUBLICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100050042-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/03/07 : CIA-RDP82-00039R000100050042-0
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fU*ABIAN PU1IUOATIO
Bsoentlyr the fungariars Govern ieiued dearee No. 4164,1949,
aooording to which thm aentralStatlstioa1 Ottiae, which is run by
the Premier's Ottioe, irl to eet up a "ooll.abion of oonfidanatisi
puhliostionr". At the saran tip, the Oovermoant ordered the setting
up of n inter?-ministerial ooaamittee whioh is to deoide which publi~?
of tione, data, and information are to bo aonsiderod as "oontidsnttal
frorn the standpoint of` national interest' rood piw~od apeoial
oollection in tha Contra/ Statietioal Office.
The rosron for those a'4don meuures was an nrtiale in th*
oi'fioial party newspaper "4sab Nep" ("Free Peopla", 1ungaryas
equivalaot of "Pravda"), whose editor , Joseph Aevai, is the Minister
of Information and one oP the mast i'luential meDabor$ of the "Moses
Group". Nine days before the above orders were ieaued by the GoWrza.
ffiim "4ssbad Bep" disousaed the recently published 1949 Yosrbook of
the gtatistiosi Offioo Budapest` and aocuaed this offioe of
irresponsibility oompletely vaunter to Booialist thinking and Mascot
spirit. The Yearbook, "BW*d Bap" stated ominouely, was in no wise
adoquae to the requirements of a People's Oemoorsoy.
There wero eeveral roaaonb for this. First of all, the yearbook
had listed the nawber of prostitutes in Budapest?ueven giving their
previous oaaupationt~-and "Ssaba4 Bep" olaimed that this placed the
working won in en usifarroreble light~- Furthermore, the newepspsr
stated that the data in the Yearbook showed that the Government his
dissolved a number of workers' orgacxisationa, and that the personnel
of the police has increased both in relation to the papulation and in
absolute figures. The artiole did not dare dispute the oorreotness
of the statistioal data, but mere1 ' oritioised the fact that they were
published. The reviewer reserved his mast violent attacks for the
!root that mast of the persons arrested during the past year were
listed is workers and laborere, and that the Yearbook gives a tabu..
lesion of "oorpses found and persons listed as messing".
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LJJNFI ENTIAL
the "8aabad Nap" roviewer deolareut "8tatistior wu n oleo
uoiertioe in the aervioe of the oapitslie e~! Now: ) w,Ter, it
reproeent the intervene of 8ooiaiiem", Tht of oow see Lp1ies
that a snatiotiioian who publiehei true tigurea iv w ene o'
Sooialiem and a aaboieur, a reaotionary and mn it of the Western
Iapor ieli ete"
dingo like this Will no longer happaa in Uuniary. The inter
minietorial oomittter Loh has rooont1y boon appointed Will see to
it that no d ata oomes to light whioh io to be treated ae "oonti
denttal from the atendpoint 01' national intorost".
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