EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREEDOM LOVING HUNGARIANS IN VIENNA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000320003-6
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 22, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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The :dtxwatior:al Association of Freedom-Loving Hrr- ~Mans In V: enna (8?cai Szabatd-
'? ;:sWeret,4' Y arok Unk 'pte B-7T's?diete) is a Corimv.,ist group th a membership of
u r r yxi: -ate y se ?enty, fifty of whom are active, The Assooiat i'on was founded in
w~ sa of lq45 as thepH~ t eri_an abntt._Par~t^$~tt C.,,m~,itteeo ate;ranting a membership
0" s ,anal th ndved. from the fivnYaarivu colony In ' )innm, In tlbe- autumn of 19 a
vi svr"i rt inrritg within the group Succeeded. 1, thangiag the name of the Orguiram
t.i ~n t=.r '~R* gari en. Len qge G:'oup of tlas Auntr! ju Con n-miet Pe.rty~' In October 19)46
',re F;~r;r..i,izatiort R.dopted its present np.me..
M i the members of the knti...Jascist Cotii?Lt a disagreed w;th the policies of the
L].n_tugee Group and withdrew their memberslr'..Fi 'i chel TIMKO, s tailor who had at one
tine he?Y3 a leadizag fi 3
lure in the Vienna r .,-.~z:ara. 4nrkers' Association. was one of
verse., =' snz 1T~ ESIL, a prominent anti ac'.ive 3-.agsrian Socia3let In Austria, also
tjit-hdrew? The following members became i' .c:tf-s. bit remained to the organizations
Johann IVANKOVICS Pre4f_dent of the V1,nna Hungarian Wor-kere' Association
from 19140 to 1947.
efan T WAT Administrato - of t:r1? Hungarian Re(' Goss in Vienn t,
rsas,&v PE i a'fZCH Custodian of the Ctl.leglura Hungarir:um,
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Laf'-clo 3 Superinfiendertt of tie Collegium HE ngaricum
Laswla CSOXONA.T? Mop IEW0lZL, and, Dr, Aapad HAAS assumed important roles in the Language
0.1-OUP and its successor organj2&tion,,,
s) . C i~(1?IBTr a shoe in nufP.rtu.er, hat lived in Vienna since 1920. Be and
. 419 A*smfly are active Comn~unisf;?, but he aver participated in anti-Nazi aotiv-
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position at present, he continues to direct the affairs of the Educational
Association.
b) Wor IERGTHL is the Secretary of the Educational Association. He studied
pharmaoy but became a journalists He is interested in sociology and arala
o3.ogy, is well-mannered, and has considerable influence in the cultural
affairs of the Association,
a) Dr. Aroat HAAS, who is well known as a member of the Central Committee of
the XPOe, wields considerable influence in the activities of the Educational
Association. He is Vice-.President of the Central Union of Democratic Hungar-
ian Associations in Vienna (Demokratikue Magyar Egyesi letek Bs csi X zpontsa)
and is attempting to bring the Vienna Hungarian colony under Communist In-
fluence.
Julius BOGI.AR is another influential Communist member of the Educational Assooi-
ation, He is primarily concerned with furthering the interests of the Communist
party among university students in Vienna. (He himself is a university student
and plans to become a nuclear physicist.) BOGLAR, who is disliked and distrusted
by Hungarian anti-Communist students, was an illegal Communist in Hun;a.ry during
t1he early v art cf 1911,5
Ufficials of the Educational Association have succeeded in winning over Ladislas
AkaDVARYt an instructor at the Co21e;iua Hunmaricum. Fearing that he would. 'be
recalled to Hungary, ABADVARY sought to utilize the influence of members of the
Educational Association to prevent this move. At present he is very active in
the Oollegium on behalf of the Communists. Although he claims to have no polit-
ical interests and denies being a member of the Communist Party, ARADVARY has
dees~ribed as hie goal the establishment of cooperation between the Communists
and the Hungarian Workers*Association.
In October 19l6,the.Rungartan Language Group of the Austrian Communist Party
became an affiliated member of the newly established Central. Union of Demoo'atio
Hungarian Associations in Vienna (see below)., Because the kustrian Ministr- of
Interior does not permit political and non=political groups to be united within
the same organization, the Language Group chsnzed its name to "Educational
Association of Freedom-Loving Hungarians in Vienna" Communist members of the
Language Group did not object to this arrangement, as they 1-.ad been unsuccessful
in attempts to organize the Hungarians in Vienna along political lines.
7. At present,the Communist-directed Educational Association I. operating as a cul-
tural and welfare organization. It sponsors parties and da~t:es, provides lunches
for needy children, and sends groups of children to camps fc rest and recreation.
The Association also plans to send packages from Hungary to members of the Hungar-
ian colony in Vienna who suffered under the. Nazi rule. The packages are to be
forwarded by the Hungarian Partisan League, a Communist-dominated organizatr,+n.
The Communists have attempted to establish a hold on the young people by super-
vising sports and athletics. .
S, The Educational Association at one time attempte i to organi,' the Ev ;ar?ien
residents of the Burgenland (Soviet Zone of Austria) and fo: several months
published a Hungarian laugnage newspaper advocating land re-.rm.
9,. Officials of the Educational Association have tried to intimidate and discredit
nor -Communist Hungarians by availing themselves of the facilities of Hungarian
Communist newspapers sold in Vienne.. During the past year a number of Hungarian
Communist papers have published articles attacking Dr, Julius MISKOLCZ'f,, President
of the Central Union of the Democratic Hungarian Associations and General Director
of the Collegium Hungaricutn? Dr. Bela DER. until recently director of the Hungarian
Academic Association in Vienna; and Dr., Bela MADAM, until recently director of the
Hungarian Red Cross in Austria. Gyorgy PBATER of the Huo.ga7-lan Legation in Vienna
assisted the Communists in preventing non-Communists from oit.aining passports,
visas, and travel permits for Hungary. I`% [ER was killed In an
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10. The Central Union of Derroc:ratic Zin ;arifn Lsaoclationt. in Vienna was formed to
enable various Him ;arian ,;groups bette?? to represent ti sir interests wzn dealing
with Austrian and Evngt