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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 28-5-92
TITLE:             More on the New Hungarian Government
BY:                
DATE:              1956-10-27
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  From the Evaluation and Research Section
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Government, Personalities

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FROM THE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH SECTION	BACKGROUND REPORT

(Hungary)	27 October 1956

MORE ON NEW HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT (third release)

Minister of Interior:	Ferenc MUNNICH.	Fought in the Spanish civil war;
police commander of post-war
BUDAPEST. At the time of the
RAJK affair he was appointed
Minister to Finland; later he
became Minister to Bulgaria and
than Ambassador to the Soviet
Union, In August 1956, became
Minister in BELGRADE. He is an
old-time enemy of Matyas RAKOSI.

Minister of Defense:	Karoly JANZA.	Major General, former metal-
worker. Was deputy Minister of
Defense in former cabinets.

Minister of Finance:	Istvan KOSSA.	From May 1951 until May 1952 he
was chief of the State Church
Office, later became Minister
of Metallurgy and Machine
Industry. When this ministry was
dissolved he was appointed president
of the Labor Reserve Office. In
January 1955 he became first
deputy president of the National
Planning Office.


Minister of Justice:	Erik MOLNAR.	Held same position in the
previous cabinet. He is a lawyer,
chairman of the Hungarian
Federation of Jurists, chairman of the
permanent government committee
on constitutional and
administrative law, and one of the main
historians of the Communist Party.
Won the Kossuth Prize twice and
is member of the Hungarian
Scientific Academy. Held various
positions in several former
cabinets since 1945, and was for a
short time Ambassador to MOSCOW.

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Minister of Metallurgy and Machinery:	Janos CSERGO.	Has held the same position
since 1954. He is a turner
by trade.

Minister Health:	Antal BABITS.	An outstanding urologist,
Kossuth Prize holder,
former Dean of the Medical
School of the BUDAPEST
University. In March 1953,
when he was director of the
BUDAPEST Kutvolgyi Street
Hospital (known as the
principal hospital of the
Hungarian security police) he
was suspended from his
position and arrested, very
likely in connection with
the demotion and arrest of
former security police boss
Gabor PETER. He reappeared,
however, early in 1954. In
July 1956 he was awarded the
title of outstanding
physician and received a 3,000
forint cash prize.

Minister of Mining and Power:	Sandor CZOTTHEB.	He has been Minister of
Mining and Power since 1951.

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