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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 29-1-119
TITLE:             Background Data on Leading Personalities in the Revolution
BY:                
DATE:              1956-11-3
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  ERS
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Government, Personalities

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FROM THE EVAOTATION AND RESEARCH, SECTION 3 NOVEMBER 1956

BACKGROUND DATA ON LEADING PERSONALITIES IN
THE REVOLUTION.
NO. 6.

HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT (NAMED 3 NOVEMBER.)

Prime Minister and		Background
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Imre NAGY	(see Background No, 5 p. 2)
Minister of Defense	Pal MALETER	Born in KASSA 1920,
		of intellectual origin.
		Graduated from the
		Military Academy as
		lieutenant. Went over
		to the Russians in 1944
		and fought as a partisan
		in the rank of captain.
		Commanding officer of
		a battalion in 1945.
		Guards commander in 1947.
		Transferred to the
		Ministry of Defense in 1949.
		Member of the Hungarian
		Workers' Party.

Secretary of State:	Zoltan TILDY.	Before the war, president
		of the Independent
		Smallholders' Party, member
		of Parliament, In 1945
		Prime Minister. In 1946
		president of the People's
		Republic, resigned in
		1948. Rehabilitated in
		1956.

	Bela K0VACS.	Secretary general of the
		Independent Smallholders'
		Party in 1945, member of
		Parliament. From 1945 to
		1947, Minister of
		Agriculture. Arrested in 1947
		and taken to the Soviet
		Union. Brought "back to
		Hungary in June 1956 and
		released.

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Istvan B. SZABO.	farmer, former
	Smallholder member of
	Parliament and Minster
	without Portfolio.
Anna KETHLY	(see Background No.1
	p.3, 1 Nov. B 98-101)

Gyula KELEMEN	(see Background No. 2
	p.3, 1 Nov., B
	98 - 101) 

Gyula FISCHER	engineer, member of
	the Social Democrat
	Party.

Istvan BIBO	(see Background No. 3
	p. 1,l NOv. D
	183 - 187)

Ferenc FARKAS	" " " " " " "

Geza LOSONCZY	(see Background No. 5 
	p. 1, 2 Nov. D
	192 - 193)

Janos KADAR " " " " " " "

Among the members of the National
Government there are:	4 members of the Hungarian Socialist
	Workers' Party,
	
	3 members of the Hungarian Social
	Democrat Party

	2 members of the PETOFO Party

	3 members of the Independent
	Smallholders-Laborers and Citizens' Party.

HUNGARIAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY

President in charge:	Tibor SORNYAK

REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE 0F THE BUDAPEST PUBLIC PROSECUTORS' OFFICE

President:	Dr. Sandor NEMES


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D-123

"NEPSZABADSAG" DAILY PAPER OF THE HUNGARIAN SOCIALIST WORKERS'
PARTY.

Editor: Sandor HARASZTI

SZABOLCS-SZATMAR COUNTY ORGANIZATION OF THE PETOFI PARTY.

President:	Laszlo VARGA	Agronomist of the State-run
estate of EIEP.

Secretary:	Sandor VARGA

PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL THEATER.
Leaders:	Ferenc BESSENYEI	(see No. 1 p.2)

Jozsef JUHASZ	actor, member of the National
Theater, decorated with the
medal "For Socialist Work"

Eva SZORENYI	actress, member of the
National Theater, KOSSUTH
Prizewinner, "Merited Artist of
the Hungarian Peoples'
Republic," decorated with
the "Medal of the Peoples'
Republic, " member of the
National Peace Council.

HUNGARIAN PEN CLUB

Member of the presidium:	Ceza KEPES	Member of the Hungarian Workers'
party, in 1949 member of the
National Council of Free Culture,
in 1955 manager of the publishing
firm "Magveto," deputy chief
of department at the Hungarian
Radio, twice winner of the
"Jozsef Attila" prize. Sectional
secretary of the Writers'
Association.

NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF BUDAPEST

Member:	Peter BECHTLER	in 1951 deputy mayor of
BUDAPEST. Member of Parliament.

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member of the Docial Democrat
Party; arrested in 1952.

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE COUNCIL OF BUDAPEST

Leader:	Nandor SZAVAI	Undersecretary of state for
the Ministry of Education;
in 1955, high-school
principal; in 1956, educational
leader of the Council of
BUDAPEST.

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