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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 28-5-100
TITLE:             Brief Biography of New First Secretary Janos Kadar
BY:                
DATE:              1956-10-25
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  Hungarian Evaluation
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Communist Parties--Hungary, Personalities

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H - KAKAR BIOGRAPHY

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FROM THE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH SECTION	BACKGROUND REPORT
(Hungarian Evaluation)	25 October 1956

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF NEW FIRST SECRETARY JANOS
KADAR

Janos KADAR's background and career are very similar to RAJK's,
with the difference that KADAR is more genuinely from the
proletariat. He is a stalwart non-Muscovite Communist.

Born 1912, family of farm-hands. At 17 joined labor movement.
In 1932, as secretary of the underground Communist youth
organization, he "became member of the Communist Party. During the
war he was in the underground in Hungary. After the
"liberation," played important role in organization of police in
BUDAPEST.

In 1945 (December) he was elected secretary of the great
BUDAPEST Party organization.

Member of the Politbureau since spring 1945. Was elected
Secretary General at the Third Party Congress of the MKP
(Hungarian Communist Party.)

In August 1948 he succeeded to RAJK in the Ministry of the
Interior, which office he held at the time of the RAJK trial. In
June 1950 he was releaved of this office, given the Golden
Degree of Hungarian Labor Merit Order, and entrusted with
"important Party works."

At the time of the February 1951 Congress of the Communist
Party he reached the climax of his political influence. He was
elected member of the Central Committee, member of the
Politbureau (ranking fifth on the list of hierarchy.) became a
member of the nine-man secretariat (ranking fifth; and also of
the organizational committee (Orgbureau), ranking second after
RAKOSI. Thus he was the only party leader to take part,
together with RAKOSI, in all the highest party bodies.

He disappeared sometime in spring or early summer 1951, and was
tried in secret. During the investigations before the trial he
was subjected to fierce and humiliating tortures by Vladimir
FARKAS, a colonel of the secret police and deputy to secret
police chief Gabor PETER.

KADAR was rehabilitated in summer 1954, appointed first party
secretary of the BUDAPEST 13 district organization and later
of county Pest.

In July 1956 he again became member of the Central Committee,
Politbureau and one of the secretaries of the Central Committee.

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