Documents / FOIA release
This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from a Chief of Station to the Chief, Foreign Division, released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It assesses the operational potential of the Hungarian emigre group led by Andras Zako, including its KOPJAS and MHBK elements. It reports that the group passed off refugee debriefings as agent reports, and it concludes that the group is politically worthless and unfit to serve as an intelligence or resistance network. The "UFO" in the text is an OCR error, not a reference to aerial phenomena.
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• . intellteence material In.1.8 and it sold -through IN eumbei
of P"ront'Ain," each of whom claim to nave hie own controlled net:tort,
.er eae.- tit whom claims: ttuat the material was collected by hie agette
liungrece. Examination of these cielms has brought. to light the foci t
• ear% group it! essentially under 7.AKO t e control, that none has Intel et eeneet
• rerents in Puneery, and that materiel collected through the debrie't eg of
refugee* ierfaleely and wittingly submitted as reperts from agentr eist.ata-
„ee,„„el lished inHengary. The deception iscarrind to the point that cc:.riore
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• actually are dispatched to Hungary; the ccerieret, however, are not •utali lied
agents but rather profetaional Brat:L.:Afars. They have no contacts to tteee
* -412 in Hungary bat are assigned to bring out now documents, epot InfoiMstIen
`7. and border-crevaing infortation. This material is used to substar !lett:
the claim that the refugee reports are genuine agent airports.
3. In 1910i-1949, M r() orgardted a number.of former Hureferiel, selqiers,
now living ae emigreo, around the nucleus of die intellipence gne'p to terra .
. an essociation of covreOen-ir-eres known as *Magyar Harccsok
Koisoesege. • Members of tide organisation are spread all over the ..Weitern
netions; estimates of fereaberehip strength rInge from 12,000 to le : 0:90. The
members are mostly tomer cureer officers who are bound to each cehrr . by e
certain eaprit-de-corpe and by a mutual desire to cetera to Hung* cy , there4 to take up again the activities droeped after World War U.
4. The founders of the eatabliched that organization eith the
following thoughts in mind:
at, shoed:owe with the U.SR is inevitable, and the West ire T‘owsrs
will need the ccoperatien of anti-Communist Il urtgariana in World ii IL.
Ara anti-Cueouniet•Hungeri an orgenisation could be uric as a
bargaining force to back up the IfHBE leaders in their plan to cont:el future
political developments in Hungary—in other words, they plan event...eily to .
return to Hune..ry ma top-echelon official* and to establish a poliI.Ical.
regime according to their own blueprint. The leaders are convince' thet
the outlook:they had during World War II haa been fully justified by the
development:of postwar international relations, particularly with ; t.gerd tn
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. 5. There has been much talk of the UM as a military et rileieg feree.
The directors of the LaIIIII apparently regard the members as soldier. whc. ere
availabie for lemediate eeeigneent. actually, a majority of the arehers
have resettled overneae and have filed their intent to become citiemis
their new homelands; also, the great majority has passed the age or 35.
Aecording to an estimate by Urbachen 1 and Cr{ ndelia, the Mtiek conld ice rcoy •
itueter more than 1500 men and, almoat without. exception, they hi ferver
oerter officers who :could be willing to fight in a Hungarian unit ff tbey
were assured of their off icer statue. Despite this rather ant:mare:ra y ie
pieture, theeleaderardp hem been able to play up the erganisation t.e lotece-
tialities %Ain gain acme retognition..
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the USSR.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.