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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00764R000500090007-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 25, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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S study of some 350 publicly printed or broadcast itmea having to do with
alleged US operations in connection with the Hungarian uprising that began
October 22, 1956 reveals, aomong other things,, that:
a. The Central Intelligence Auency was mentioned in
seemed to
ree fxtxemzzemt fourteen US non-communist clippings, about half of which /
imply
Upited that the Agency was caught by surprise kthsznpais (Houston Chronicle,
Tarentum (Penn
, Washington Daily News, Allen
, New York Post, Chicago Sun Times, Brier
but that
); while the others suggested that CIA was aware of the situation,/prediction
of an actual date was not to be expected of an intelli-once agency (Lambert
b. The gentral Intelligence A.ency was mentioned frequently in
the A ency
ss~t propaganda from Moscow and other communist sources,where~'ft was said to be
1where CIA appeared 4 to be administering a multi-millia dollar Congressional
instrumental in an American plot directed against the people of Hungary. The New
York Daily Worker, in partial dealt at some length with an alleged "Project X"
approrpriation for "counterrevolutionary" purposes in Hungary.
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a. Radio Free Europe, the Voice of America, the Committee dor Free Europe,
and the Crusade for Freedom tended to be lumped together as unofficial and offical
non-commujist
instruments of US propaganda in the forty-nine clippings of/US origin where they were
mentioned by name. These clippings expressed a great variety of points of view
which might be classified max stating that these organizations:
1na~ ~
(1) Played a non-unoommendable part in giving encouragement to the
Hungarians (New York Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, and Imtx
,;?j
Life Magazine) These were all published during the first twelve days after the uprising
began.
(2) May soon be investigated in connection with their alleged Hungarian
~ activities (New York World Telegram and Sun; Chicago Daily Tribune, Aug Washington
Post and Ties Herald)
(3) In effect, incited the Hungarians to revolt (Washington Post and
Times Herald, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, St. Louis Post-
Dispatch)
(4) Did not incite the Hungarians to revolt (New York Times, Washington
Post and Tiles HerW].d, New York Daily News, Time Magazine )
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(5) Most certainly did not incite the Hungarians to revolt, for
it is insulting to the Hungarians to suggest that they had or needed any
outside aid (Washington Daily News; Time Magazine, Washington Post and Times Herald;
Reporter magazine)
(6) Not only incited revolt but led the Hungarinas to believe they
would r ceive US military aid once the revolt had started (Baltimore Sun; Washington
Daioy News; massey
; Washin to Post
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d. Propaganda disseminated from Moscow and allied communist capitals seemed
designed to discredit the US aid its allies as interfering in the internal affairs
demonstrate that it was fascist counter-
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of stkerzermntrtes a foreign country (Hungary)
revolutionaries rather than Hungarian workers who were opposing the regime,
and (perhaps most important)
explain the use of ungarian and then Soviet troops against the
T
Hungarian insurgents zfesexeiatx8see zmightzka rexbnxedzmexexd#eaattaftx tz
` ~sezs~tzkseaei~ax~p~edtgZ~3~t~
t~ztei~htastekzeriyea~e~t~essxix) The general idea set forth was
that the embattled Hungarian workers and peasants, willing to fight to the death to
defend their hard-won socialist republic, found themsevies powerless 3aeforextkex
planned in Washington, financed by the US congress, and
gla xef in the face of attack/led by former officers in
who were
fascists armies, aided by agents armed and trained by (and sometimes in)the United States,
In support of such accusations, mention was made of propaganda balloons and other allegei
activities of RFE; secret headquarters said to be maintained by the US in connection
with the revolt; statements of US corrsponienta and US officials said to show evidence
of US complicity; congressional appropriations said to total $110,000,000 for use
against "peoples' democracies" and what congressmen were said to have said about them;
witnesses who were supposed to have seen agents and equipment being sent into Hungary
from Austria by subterfuge such ar Red Cross vehicles; and the PZWE alleged behavior be-
fore the revolt of Hungarian expatriotsand other alleged lea "counterrvolutionary"
leaders.
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Albania, and
e. East Germany. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria,/Hungary (except during brief periods
when the insurgents controlled radio Budapest) all echoed the Moscow line, Prague
having broadcast it slightly in advance of Moscow.
f. Statements by the ugoslavs and Poles reflected their somewhat peculiar
position with respect to the Hungarian affair.
g. Communist China, taking note of the a u3garina rebellion well after it had
begun, staunchly supported the USSR and the Kadar government, but spoke to frequently
of "mistakes" made by the previous communist regime in Hungary. Chinese Communist
broadcasts did not directly mention RFE or the various overt acts with respect to
Hungary said b the USSR to have been committed by the US.
h. With excdption of a Communist radio in Italy, non-communist countries whose
broadcasts were studied in connection with this report neither made use of Moscow
propaganda nor mentioned F Mx any alleged US complicity in the RSngarian affair
through EYE or by any other method. The countries in question were: Greece,, Turkey,
Pakistan, India, Scandanavia, West Germany, France, Benelux, Switzerland, Italy, ibaztax
Spain, Portugal
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