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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

SOURCES METHODS EXEMPT ION 3828NAZI WAR CR IMESDI SCLOSURE ACTDATE 2006

JISPATCH NO. .EGMAi-20450 •

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DATE:

INFO: COS

ZKA - Status Report

FORM No. 51 —28AMAR, 1949

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IA: (SPECIFY AIR OR SEA POUCH)

TO : Chief, E

FROM : Chief ogase, MUnidair\Attn:

SUBJECT: GENERAL— Operation:We:ART/MAY

BeREF: EGMA 189141 24 January 1956

Developments

1. Subsequent to the AVH ap roach to Subject reported in reference,Subject received in early February a 0iftt'tetter-frowttife-Nfid-OnHungary, In Which. thei ."6070-again urge him to return home. (Pee AttachmentsA and 13).[ The eon also mentions in the letter knowledge of Subject's livingconditions in Germany. Since Subject States that he has never described hisliving 000Mmodations to his wife or son, this is a clear indieation'Oiat:thesosid : mas_giTenthie information by Karoly ROSE or some other AVH agent. Italei0e0MS probably that this letter was written under AVN'instriCtion,4044i. 44* step following their approach. Pursuant to our ihattnetione.s0)4t wrote an answer to his wife and son in which he told them that thenecessary preconditions for his return to Hungary did not in his opinion nowobtain, but thatliie:priMary concern continued to be the welfare of his wifeand son. (See Attachments C and D). There has thus far been no reaction tothis letter of Subject's.

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Subject Meetings (through 8 March 1956)

2.1 ;has met periodically with Subject since his approach. Anumber drfthe points covered during these meetings will be clear from the attadh-*ments we are sbbnitting to Headquarters as listed below . supplementary andother points of note are the following:

a. Subject has discovered, upon digging up those letters still inhis possession from the interchange with his son reported in para 5 c of ref,that in fact the incident occurred in 1953 and not 1954 as reported in ref.(Comment: Subject has shown himself a bit hazy on dates, see further par g 2bbelow.) Subject has also sUbmitted the following supplementary informationstating that the incident had come back to him more clearly in the interim:The friend of Subject's son who was to brief Subject on the worsened situationOf the son and Subject's wife, was allegedly a student friend of the son whowas about to take a vacation„in Austria and Switzerland, not a business manas in ref. Subject's fireein wer specified a meeting in Constance on 25 March1953 and Subject and Jano AY-STITZ actually traveled to Constance on thisdate to meet the son's friend. When they returned, Subject found a letter

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waiting for him in which the friend, who signed himself Miklo VACS, writesfrom Vienna that he would be unable to make the meeting on 25 March, and sug-gests as alternate a meeting in Bern before the Restaurant Casino, On CasinoPlatz, on 5 April 1953. Upon the advice of the I.S. office giving Subjectguidance via STOMFAY-STITZ on how to deal with this development (cf ref),Subject wrote to KOVACS that because of past difficulties he could not makethe suggested meeting. (Comment: Subject states that he does not rememberthe address in Vienna to which he wrote, and that at the time STOMFAT-STITZ'sI.S. office had kept the envelope on which the address had been given.) Subjectreceived a subsequent letter from KOVACS from Bern on 7 April 1953 again suggestinga meeting before the Restaurant Casino on 12 April 1953. Subject did not go,of course, and the only aftermath to the affair was that in a later letter hisson wrote that he was sorry Subject had been unable to meet his friend. (Thesethree letters are forwarded to Headquarters as Attachment G (a), (b) and (c).Subject remarks that KOVACS letters are written in a remarkably feminineappearing hand.)

b. In one of the initial meetings with Subject he disclosed thathe had formerly been involved in Ingolstadt in informant activities for theCIC. Subject was asked to write an account of this, which he did, and theaccount is forwarded as Attachment K. It will be noted that Subject is hazyas to Whether he commenced these informant activities in 1947 or l948.Although the account is fairly scanty we do not feel it worthwhile to pressSubject for any further details on this incident. NS will however requestCLS to run a routine trace with CIC to see whether anything of note results.

c. With respect to the biographical information we are forwardingon Subject (Attachments H-J), we are fairly well satisfied with the amount ofinformation we now have on his past life and feel only a certain lack of infor-mation on Subject's activities and relationships during the recent years. Wewill try to remedy this lack in the course of time, however, we seem to be upagainst two momentary obstacles. One, our (we hope deft) attempts so far toget Subject to open up on his present personal life, have met a blank wallwhich appears to be based primarily on Subject's feeling there isn't much torelate, more than that there are certain personal cirtumstances he is unwillingto tell us about. Two, in view of the time that has passed since Subject'sapproach, Subject is beginning to suspect that he will not be recontacted.Consequently, and normally, he is beginning to show a little irritation withthe time consuming process of obtaining information from him about himself,which increases as his conviction grows that it will all turn out to be awaste of time and effort anyway. Thus for the moment we are going slow.

d. It has been clarified that Subject was not ripliberately-holdingout on us in not mentioning his MHBK membership from 1949 to 1953. Subjectstates that he did not mention this-Tmemb-eiihl.lialféilL jked him inthe first meeting about his political affiliations because: 2i he had beenout of the organization for—SUCh a long -fiiWhe did noi' really feel itpertinent; and b) theoretically the MHBK was not at the time he was a membera political group, and one of s2Je.left was that it had begun to

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y J3410 40- o rotect his fami had bes

assume a political character. Subject related the whole story of his reasonfor leaving the MHBK which conforms pretty much to the information we ori-ginally got from LI z3

e. It was recorded in ref that we were not quite sure of Subject'smotives in agreeing so readily and without much question to a DA operation.Subsequent Observation indicates that Subject has On the Whole a somewhat weakcharacter and -robab is easil swate. s es thereof*We thus suspect-that . the mere fact that the A1S, an authority in Subject's -eyes, suggested, i.e. desired that, Subject involve himself in the operation,may have been in itself sufficient inducement. We also believe, conttary toSubject's protestations reported in refthat he considered the fate of hisWife and son outside his hands, that Stjloectears (at least nOw,Lafter reflection) that harm will came to his wife and e_oninf_h_e_aptooadamant in -Er-siiitance to he AVH and that conse uent lain:. with

0- ..,e underour gjdance and with the advantage of our_pess1onal experience.

f. With respect to the eight Hungarian language intercepts we areforwarding as Attachment N o we regret having to burden Headquarters with thisjob, but we feel the intercepts should at least be skinned o ascertain whether'-7hey are pertinent to the present situation with Subject. L,

- •o burdened to undertake the task.) We call your attention to ftle'fact th he intercepts is of a letter of 14 March from Subject'ssister ho. in Budapest. Since our last meeting with Subjedt was on8 March, he s not had a chance to report receipt of this letter, and-weare inclined t believe that were there anything of significance in the letter,Subject would have called us.

Attachments:

The following attachments are submitted:

A - Letter in the Hungarian language reoeived by Subject from his wifeand son per pare 1 above. The letter is dated 31 January 1956; it was mailedfrom Budapest on 2 February 1956.

B - Translation of this letter by Subject into German.C Letter in Hungarian written by Subject in answer to the above letter

per para 1 above. This was written by Subject on the basis of an agreed textworked out by Subject and Whikehart in the German lan guage.

D- Rough translation of this letter by[.Lnto English, The -translation indi that Subject conformed on the whole to the agreed text.

E - The lett% .-44;n arian from Subject's son delivered to Subjectpersonally by Kar • •,k SE per reference.

F Translation • this letter by Subject into German.G - Three letters from the interchange between Subject, his won and a

"friend" of his son in 1953, which are assumed to hare been AVH inspired(cf para 2a above).

H PRQ I on Subject.-1501PrI - Short life run on Subject. .c

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J - World War I POW Experience.K - Statement by Subject of Circumsces of his Informant Activity

for C1C in 1947.L - Information okprofessor)JosX - Information on Geheimrat Han

address for his personal correspond,N Eight intercepts on Subject's pe

(Sister, Bud, Met, Rat.)

Approvedt

J10 April 1956

Attachments: As stated

Distribution:3 - WASH w/1 cc A,B IC ID IE,F,G,J,K IN; 2 cc HAI,L;M.3 C013 A,B,D,C,E,FIGA; lcc H„I,J,KIL,M.

.1 - MOB w/1 cc all atts except N

hvp

HARDT (cf reference).BER, Subject's current accommodationth his family.sonal mail, per above para 2f,