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BOX-FOLDER-REPORT: 29-3-18
TITLE:             Moscow Radio on Budapest Crime Investigations
BY:                Vladimir T. and Yury Fokin
DATE:              1956-12-28
COUNTRY:           Hungary
ORIGINAL SUBJECT:  
THEMATIC SUBJECTS: Hungary--1956 Revolution, Political Persecution, Hungary--1956 Revolution--Soviet Bloc Reaction

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ATTENTION VOA MUNICH
L281511 MOSCOW SOVIET HOME SERVICE DEC 28 1956 0500 GMT-L

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UR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS VLADIMIR TREGUBOV AND YORY
FOKIN REPORT FROM BUDAPEST:

RECENTLY THE REACTIONARY PRESS Of THE WESTERN COUNTRIES
AND, ESPECIALLY, RADIO FREE EUROPE ARE SPHEADING SLANDEROUS RUMORS
ALLEGING THAT TERROR REIGNS IN HUNGARY, AND THAT, ALLEGEDLY
INNOCENT CITIZENS ARE THROWN INTO JAILS.

YESTERDAY WE VISITED HUNGARIAN POLICE OFFICE AND ITS DEPARTMENT
FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE CRIMES, A SENIOR POLICE OFFICER RECEIVED
US. HE SAID TO US: "LIES AND SLANDER SPREAD BY THE REACTIONARY
??PAGANDISTS ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF HUNGARIAN POLICE AHE EASY TO
REFUTE. WE CALL TO STAND TRIAL ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED

A CRIME AGAINST THE PEOPLE. WE THINK THAT IT IS BEST IF YOU YOURSELF
VISIT CUR INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT."

AND HERE WE ARE WITH AN INVESTIGATOR. ON THE DESK WE SEE 
A FILE "THE CASE OF THE KOSUT" INVESTIGATION IN THIS CASE
IS ALMOST COMPLETE, ONLY SOME DETAILS MUST BE FILLED IN WE
ASK PERMISSION TO SEE THE CASE. THE MATERIALS CONTAINED IN PROTOCOLS
AHE SELF-EXPLANA7ORY, HONSTHOUS CHIMES ARE UNCOVERED BEFORE US
PERPETRATED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST ANY HUMAN ASPECT.

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? WHO ARE THEY WHO HAVE PERPETRATED
THE TERRIBLE CRIMES REGISTERED BY THE INVESTIGATION MATERIALS?
ILONA SAG IS TWENTYFOUR YEARS OLD. HAVING FINISHED THE SCHOOL OF
MEDICINE IN BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY. SHE WAS PRACTITIONER IN A HOSPITAL.
TEGOETHER WITH HER ACCOMPLICES SHE KILLED BUILDING WORKER ISTVAN
BONAS. HER ACCOHPLICES WERE (MIKLOS BUILDING WORKER ISTVAN
FR??ENC GELSZIK. WRITER JOSZEP GALI AND JOURNALIST GEROE
AVRSAGI ALL NAMES PHONETIC--ED.).

TWO DAYS BEFORE THE CRIME WERE DISCOVERED, WORKER ISTVAN
BONAR WAS BROUG IT WITH A WOUND TO THE CABINET OF DOCTOR ILONA
SAG. IN HIS POCKETS THE BANDITS FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS ON WHICH WAS
SHOWN WEARING THE UNIFORM OF THE SECURITY POLICE. ISTVAN BONAR
WAS IN TWESE UNITS DURING HIS MILITARY SERVICE TERM BUT THIS

WAS ENOUGH FOE THE BANDITS TO KILL AN INNOCEMTN MAN. AFTER
BESTIAL TORTURE: TO WHICH ISTVAN BONAR WAS SUBMITTED. DOCTOR
ILONA SA: PROPOSED TO KILL HIM BY INTRODUCING BENZINE
INTO HIS JUGULAR VEIN. THIS METHOD FAILED, AND THE DOCTOR TRIED
TO KILL THE WORKER BY INTRODUCING AIR INTO THE CAEDIAC
CAVITY. BUT ISIVAN STILL WAS ALIVE. THE MURDERER KILLED HIM WITH A
KNIFE. AND BURIED THE CORPSE OF THEIR VICTIM UNDER THE WELL OF AN
OLD CHURCH. NEW CRIMES HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED. (SOME WORDS
INDISTINCT--ED; THE MURDERERS TRIED TO CONTACT THE UNITED STATES
EMBASSY AND FLEE TO THE STATES. THEY FAILEDTA???

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H- 1 Crime Investigations

ILONA SAG IS BROUGHT INTO THE ROOM OF THE INVESTIGATOR. SHE
SITS DOWN AND LOOKS ABOUND. THE MURDERESS TWISTS A HANDKERCHIEF IN HER
HANDS. SHE ANSWERS OUR QUESTIONS. SHE IS VOLUBLE. XT IS HARD TO
STOP HER--SHE IS SO FLUENT AND SO CYNICAL ABOUT THE DETAILS OF
HER CHIME. THEM AN ACCOMPLICE IS BROUGHT IN, MIKLOS BENDESCICS.
WHO HAS ALREADY ONCE SEEN SENTENCED TO 10 TEN YEARS OF JAIL FOR
TAKING PART IN A FASCIST YOUTH ORGANIZATION AND FOR ACTIVE
SUPPORT OF HITLERITES. IN 1954 NINETEEN FIFTYFOUR BENDESCICS WAS
RELEASED. AND NOW THIS HARD-BOILED FASCIST AGAIN HAS TAKEN UP HIS
OLD JOB.

"I AM A REVOLUTIONARY, IS THE IMPUDENT STATEMENT OF THIS
MISHAPEN CREATURE. WE ASK HIM, WHAT WOULD HE DO IF HE WOULD BE
RELEASED? HE THINKS A HOMENT I DO NOT RPT NOT KNOW. PERHAPS
I WOULD TAKE UP HONEST WORK." BUT WHO WOULD BELIEVE HIM?

"WHAT WAS IT YOU STRUGGLED FOR, WHAT ARE YOUR IDEALS? " WE
ASK HIM, BENDESCICS IS SILENT--HE HAS MO IDEALS AND HE CAN HAVE
NONE* HE HATES HIS PEOPLE. HE HAS NO NATIVE LANB, HE IS AN OPEN
AND DECLARED ENEMY OF THE SOCIALIST ORDER. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHOM
THE PEOPLE'S JUSTICE OF HUNGARY IS PUNISHING. THE CRIMINALS HILL
BE TRIED IN A WEEK'S TIME. ENDALL

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