Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified in 2008 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is a page from the Zsolt Aradi files with a largely illegible cover dispatch and an attachment to EGMA-30009. The attachment passes on Gehlen Organization information about Hungarian émigrés, including Zsoltan Arady, former colonel Jenoe Puy, and suspected AVH agent Bela Jarvas. It covers their reported intelligence links, Jarvas's claimed escape from Hungary, his Radio Free Europe connection and his Munich newspaper. It contains no UFO material.
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Attachment to EGMA-3O009 The folldwing information is from the Cehlen'Organization. a. Zsoltan ARADY - Hungarian in Rome who was said to have gone abroad during 1949. I Uring 1939 he was a journalist in Budapest. He allegedly held a leading position in "APO 170" in 1947. (Info dated October 1949). b. Jenoe PUY - born 1892 in TrenOlvania. Former Hungarian colonel Who worked for the KATPOL as researcher (allegedly started working for them in December 1947). He served with the Military attache in Rome until 1945 (Info dated January 1950). He lived 14 Rome, Via dei Villini 16, was an Italian Operatic:lel contact and also an AVJI agent in contact with ARAM (Info dated October 1949). - a. ' Bela JARVAS - Suspect AVRAgent .born 19 November 1919 in SZOLNOK, , and resides at MUNICH, Ohmstrassep, Penaken Thieme. Subject claimed dur- ing interrogation by a Gehlen OrganizationeAgent that he fled to VIENNA. from BUDAPEST on 23 April 19484 . He-clai,1 to have returned to Hungary ii: three times after his initial 6flight id was arrested by Hungarian Police on 12 July 1948. He was heldaccoriii to his statements, in various work camps, and succeeded in escapi is from labor camp in KAIDSCA an 18 August 1951. He swam the Danube River,near GRAN, and then crossed the March River into Austria. He reached VIENNA Zirg-Ingust 1951. He claims to be seriously afflicted with tdberculosis. This would appear to refute his story of escape, since he could scarcely swim the Danube in such condition. During the war be ..... was allegedly in a Hungarian Array Regiment which was committed on the Eastern Trent: He was taken PW by the Russians in 1944, but managed to escape with the aid of a Ukrainian, and returned to Hungary an 7 Nay 191414. He was pro- moted to lieutenant, and wounded during a battle in Hungary. After the War, up to his flight to VIENNA in April 1948, he claims to have worked in an agricultural cooperative. ' . . ) He is currently connected to Radio Free Europe, and 0.15 alleged to have received payment for information provided that organization. ,AnOther Gehlen Organization Agent was able to determine that Subject wrote to the editors of the Hungarian Emigre Newspaper, Hungaria,, requesting that they arrange a meeting with Chancellor ADENAUER's daughter for him. Subject wanted to achieve contact with German industrial circles through this meet= ing, to seek financial support for an "Association of Hungarian Political Refugees" he desired to found. The-newspaper Hun aria reported this to , the Bavarian Verfassungsschutz, which organization i s now allegedly con- ' soring Subject's mail.- Subject is in contact with Dr. Dezsoe WEIN, a Hungarian." (Into dafed January - June . 1952). August'1952 Bela JARVAS allegedly started an Hungarian newspaper entitled PARLAMENT in the Munich area. He was editor and published of this paper which was allegedly supported by the Hungarian government. (Info dated December 1952).
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.