List of Documents - 1952 [1 item]
1952.11.28 | 14720/52 | Expelles Life in the Elep (Hortobágy) Labor-Camp | 19 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1955 [2 items]
1955.5.7 | 3795/55 | A Spoiled Life – A Repatriated Hungarian's Fate | 9 pages | ![]() 1955.10.24 | 9060/55 | Release of Hungarians from Soviet Slave Labor Camps Expected | 3 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1956 [26 items]
1956.1.17 | 459/56 | Criminal Proceedings in County Heves | 6 pages | ![]() 1956.1.17 | 466/56 | Szeged Scribes Get Together | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.2.3 | 1177/56 | Debrecen Newspaper Assails Literary Deviationists | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.3.14 | 2908/56 | Emigre Journalist Promotes Redefection Campaign in London | 4 pages | ![]() 1956.5.22 | 5227/56 | Telephone Service Getting Constantly Worse | 4 pages | ![]() 1956.6.7 | 5783/56 | Communist Teacher Flunks as Preacher of Atheism | 3 pages | ![]() 1956.8.23 | 8144/56 | Kádár's Bodyguard Gets 28.000 Forints as Compensation for Wrongful Imprisonment | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.8.24 | 8165/56 | Wife of the “Freedom Plane” Leader is Hauled over the Coals by the AVH | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.8.28 | 8257/56 | Baranya County Party Boss Warns “Class Struggle” Against Kulaks Must Be Renewed | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.9.8 | 8613/56 | Released Social Democrats Expected to Swell Communist Ranks | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.9.12 | 8698/56 | Student Unable to Get Job Because He Had Wrong Ancestors | 6 pages | ![]() 1956.9.12 | 8714/56 | How Redefectors Are Treated When They Get Back Home | 4 pages | ![]() 1956.9.25 | 8210/56 | Regime “Rehabilitates” some Ex-social Democrats but Only “Pardons” Others | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.9.26 | 9104/56 | Unsuccessful Escape Draws Stiff Sentence | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.9.26 | 9161/56 | Ex-president Tildy Demands Dropping of Bishop Péter as Condition of Return to Politics | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.10.8 | 9541/56 | Redefectors Back Rumors of Sad Plight of Refugees in West | 3 pages | ![]() 1956.10.12 | 9619/56 | Three-Day Arrest for a Four-Minute Interview at the British Legation | 4 pages | ![]() 1956.10.25 | 10023/56 | Organization of the Ministry of the Interior and its Subordinates | 5 pages | ![]() 1956.11.23 | Report | Hungarian Deportations Laid to Top Soviet Secret Policemen | 1 page | ![]() 1956.11.23 | Report | Budapest Engineer's Report | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.12.1 | 10816/56 | Comments by Hungarian Refugee on RFE and Kádár János | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.12.1 | 10816/56 | Freedom Fighter Says RFE's Phraseology Confused Simple People | 4 pages | ![]() 1956.12.5 | 10918/56 | A Recent Refugee Expounds on Political Problems | 9 pages | ![]() 1956.12.5 | 10914/56 | Engineer Says RFE Broadcasts Were a Source of Comfort | 3 pages | ![]() 1956.12.14 | 11194/56 | A Worker's Comment on RFE | 4 pages | ![]() 1956.12.21 | 11420/56 | Registration of Strikers | 2 pages | ![]() 1956.12.29 | 11477/56 | Construction and Reconstruction Problems in Hungary | 5 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1957 [58 items]
1957.1.4 | 48/57 | Münnich Orders Faked Disbanding of ÁVH | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.1.4 | 32/57 | The Story of a 17-Year-Old Miner Apprentice | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.1.4 | 28/57 | Hungarian Refugees in Sweden | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.1.21 | 442/57 | Secret Documents at Communist Party Headquarters in Budapest | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.1.21 | 444/57 | Russian Occupied Technical University | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.1.22 | 457/57 | The Main Telephone Exchange in Budapest | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.1.25 | 565/57 | Catastrophic Conditions in Komló Mines | 4 pages | ![]() 1957.1.29 | 624/57 | Kidnapping of Students Fails | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.2.4 | 771/57 | Regime Gives Discredited but Reliable Communists New Functions | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.2.12 | 968/57 | Hungarian Refugees Transit Yugoslavia to Austria | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.2.12 | 962/57 | Communist Intrigue in a Budapest Factory | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.2.18 | 1109/57 | Prisoners Liberated | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.2.19 | 1146/57 | “Persecution of Communists Continues in Factories” Regime Paper Complains | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.2.23 | 1257/57 | Regime Instructs Party Organizations How to “Convince” Farmers to Back Up the Regime | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.3.6 | 1488/57 | The Story of Miskolc | 17 pages | ![]() 1957.3.7 | 1060/58 | Prevalence of Police Spies: Investigative Unit at Andrássy Street 60 | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.3.8 | IX/06070 | Survey of the Hungarian Revolution | 49 pages | ![]() 1957.3.12 | 1572/57 | Amusement Tax and Special Lottery Suggested in Aid of House-Building | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.3.16 | 1767/57 | Liberation of Political Prisoners from Kalocsa Prison | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.4.1 | 2044/57 | One-Time Freedom Fighter Now Kádár Officer | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.4.4 | 2119/57 | The Revolution in Tamási and District | 4 pages | ![]() 1957.4.5 | 2175/57 | Hungarian Situation Report | 7 pages | ![]() 1957.4.10 | 2247/57 | Interrogation of Redefectors | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.4.12 | 2283/57 | Economic Pressure Put on Rábafüzes' Ex-Kolkhozniks and Kulaks | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.4.20 | 2445/57 | A Redefector's Experiences | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.5.7 | 4744/56 | Students in Szeged | 6 pages | ![]() 1957.5.11 | 2865/57 | Revolutionary Events at the Kilian Barracks of Budapest | 32 pages | ![]() 1957.5.25 | 3169/57 | Secret Underground Prison | 5 pages | ![]() 1957.5.25 | 3169/57 | Secret Underground Prison | 5 pages | ![]() 1957.6.1 | 3309/57 | The Situation in the Ministry of Agriculture after the Revolution | 6 pages | ![]() 1957.6.5 | 3419/57 | The Repatriation of Hungarian Refugees from France | 11 pages | ![]() 1957.6.21 | 3679/57 | Regime Application Form for Redefectors | 5 pages | ![]() 1957.7.17 | 4175/57 | Obtaining a Passport in Kádár's Hungary | 4 pages | ![]() 1957.7.20 | 4250/57 | Hungarian Refugees in Belgium | 1 page | ![]() 1957.8.5 | 4595/57 | Survey of Hungarian Redefection from Britain | 5 pages | ![]() 1957.8.7 | 4658/57 | Post-Revolution Developments in Budapest's “Belojannis” Factory | 5 pages | ![]() 1957.8.13 | 4761/57 | Departure of a Group of Redefectors | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.8.19 | M-6-57 | Hungarian Society of Land Hesse | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.8.22 | 4951/57 | Lawyers Describes the Principles of “Class Justice” | 12 pages | ![]() 1957.9.1 | 4499/57 | Breakdown of Latest Emigration Figures | 4 pages | ![]() 1957.9.2 | 5136/57 | Party Organizational Problems: Members' Reluctance to Take Office | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.9.2 | 5060/57 | Party's Organization Difficulties in Veszprém | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.9.7 | 5298/57 | Former State Official Describes Revived Persecution of Church | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.9.25 | 5537/57 | Religious Feeling Deepens: Measures Against “Jehova's Witnesses” | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.10.17 | 5892/57 | Two Reports on Increasing Internment and the Kistarcsa Camp | 9 pages | ![]() 1957.10.25 | F-57 | Refugees Fear Ouster by Tito | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.10.26 | 6033/57 | Lawyer Sees No Change Likely:Reports Recent Nagy Rumors | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.11.8 | 6273/57 | Rumors Concerning Postponement of the Déry Trial | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.11.13 | 6334/57 | The Persecution of Actor Iván Darvas; Maltreated after Arrest | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.11.13 | 6315/57 | Preventive Arrests on the Eve of Public Holidays; Description from N. Hungarian Village | 3 pages | ![]() 1957.11.13 | 6328/57 | Soviet Deportees Smuggled Back to Hungary: A Budapest Worker's Story | 6 pages | ![]() 1957.11.18 | 6496/57 | The Three Fractions within the Party's Central Committee | 14 pages | ![]() 1957.11.29 | 6666/57 | Reliability Check Among Budapest Police | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.11.30 | 6705/57 | “Guidance” of the Hungarian Press with Regard to Reports about Political Trials | 5 pages | ![]() 1957.12.3 | 6726/57 | Conditions of Prisoners Working in Edelény Coal Mine | 4 pages | ![]() 1957.12.21 | 7071/57 | Kádár's Efforts to Reorganize the Party: Wave of Denunciations in Fall 1957 | 9 pages | ![]() 1957.12.24 | 7090/57 | Kádár Prohibits Press Criticism of Rákosi “Errors” | 2 pages | ![]() 1957.12.28 | 7149/57 | Formal Rehabilitation Procedure Abolished by Kádár Regime | 1 page | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1958 [16 items]
1958.1.24 | 346/58 | Directives Issued at Press Conference for Hungarian Editors | 12 pages | ![]() 1958.1.29 | 416/58 | The Village of Tamási | 2 pages | ![]() 1958.2.10 | 603/58 | Nagy and Maléter Trial Believed Pending | 4 pages | ![]() 1958.2.21 | 811/58 | How Lower Judges Tried to Ameliorate Regime Drive Against “Counter-Revolutionaries” | 15 pages | ![]() 1958.2.25 | 865/58 | Conditions at the Baracska Forced Labor Camp | 13 pages | ![]() 1958.3.27 | 1443/58 | Relatives “Inherit” Refugee's Property | 2 pages | ![]() 1958.3.29 | 1488/58 | Only Prospective Emigres in Camp Siezenheim | 2 pages | ![]() 1958.4.25 | 1973/58 | Irritating Aspects of Legal Emigration | 3 pages | ![]() 1958.5.3 | 2093/58 | Gyõr Lawyers Sentenced to Imprisonments for “Counter-Revolutionary” Activity | 2 pages | ![]() 1958.5.19 | 2303/58 | Consumer Goods Buying and Life in Budapest | 3 pages | ![]() 1958.6.26 | 2903/58 | József Kerék – Portrait of the Baja Party Secretary | 8 pages | ![]() 1958.7.1 | 2961/58 | Ferenc Jánosi | 3 pages | ![]() 1958.7.1 | 2962/58 | Miklós Vásárhelyi | 2 pages | ![]() 1958.7.7 | 3090/58 | New Wave of Terror in Budapest | 4 pages | ![]() 1958.7.12 | 3182/58 | Hungary and the Brussels World Fair 1958 | 3 pages | ![]() 1958.10.8 | 5081/58 | A Revolutionary's Arrest, Interrogation and Internment at Kistarcsa | 19 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1959 [11 items]
1959.1.12 | 119/59 | The Repatriation of Hungarian Refugees from France. Survey of November 1958 | 3 pages | ![]() 1959.1.30 | 482/59 | Traiskirchen Camp Monthly Report | 3 pages | ![]() 1959.2.5 | 566/59 | Statistics Concerning Hungarian Refugee Students in France | 3 pages | ![]() 1959.2.5 | 575/59 | Political Opinions in Tököl Internment Camp | 3 pages | ![]() 1959.2.6 | 631/59 | The Prison-Estate of Baracska | 16 pages | ![]() 1959.2.28 | 1002/59 | Regime Executed Imre Nagy and Friends after Refusing their Request to See their Families for Last Time | 2 pages | ![]() 1959.3.6 | 1104/59 | The Repatriation of Hungarian Refugees from France. Survey of January 1959 | 5 pages | ![]() 1959.5.12 | 2073/59 | Court Official Earns Less than Skilled Laborer | 1 page | ![]() 1959.6.15 | 2567/59 | The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Two Years after the Revolution | 6 pages | ![]() 1959.8.5 | 3291/59 | Hungarian ÁVH Officer Recognized by Exile Student | 2 pages | ![]() 1959.9.30 | 4012/59 | The “Little Prison” in Budapest's Gyûjtõfogház Gaol | 8 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1960 [7 items]
1960.1.13 | 112/60 | Fluctuation in Salaries | 1 page | ![]() 1960.3.3 | 827/60 | Austrian Visitors' Experiences and Observations in Hungary | 6 pages | ![]() 1960.3.7 | 869/60 | The Repatriation of Hungarian Refugees from France. Survey of January 1960 | 3 pages | ![]() 1960.3.25 | 1163/60 | Wages, Salaries and Working Conditions in the Orion Enterprise | 4 pages | ![]() 1960.4.29 | 1645/60 | The Pálhalma Prison Farm | 8 pages | ![]() 1960.8.23 | 3025/60 | April 1960 Amnesty Beneficiaries Placed under Police Surveillance | 2 pages | ![]() 1960.10.12 | 3612/60 | László Angyal Redefects to Hungary | 2 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1962 [7 items]
1961.5.10 | 1421/61 | “Old Exiles” Reaction to Regime “Regularization of Citizenship” Decree | 4 pages | ![]() 1961.7.13 | 2310/61 | Income of Danube Rivermen (smuggling) | 5 pages | ![]() 1961.7.14 | 2322/61 | Hungarian House in Paris Advertises Consular Passports | 2 pages | ![]() 1961.7.18 | 2325/61 | The Repatriation of Hungarian Refugees from France. Survey of May 1961 | 3 pages | ![]() 1961.7.28 | 2429/61 | The Reorganization of the Security Troops after the 1956 Revolution | 3 pages | ![]() 1961.9.13 | 2885/61 | Wording of Refusal to Persons Applying for Visit to Relatives in the West | 2 pages | ![]() 1961.11.22 | 3459/61 | Situation Concerning Foreign Currency | 2 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1962 [3 items]
1962.1.20 | 52/62 | Discharge from Hungarian Citizenship | 4 pages | ![]() 1962.3.27 | 119/62 | Situation of Small Artisans and Shopkeepers | 2 pages | ![]() 1962.4.5 | 718/62 | The Repatriation of Hungarian Refugees from France. Survey of January 1962 | 3 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1963 [3 items]
1963.1.9 | 19/63 | Legal Provisions for Refugees Abroad | 2 pages | ![]() 1963.3.19 | 581/63 | Means of Obtaining Release from Hungarian Citizenship | 2 pages | ![]() 1963.10.8 | 2233/63 | Blackmail Through Poverty | 2 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1964 [2 items]
1964.2.15 | 272/64 | Hungarian Sports Council's Efforts to Prevent Escapes of Athletes | 2 pages | ![]() 1964.9.9 | 1645/64 | Visiting Refugee Detained in Hungary | 4 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1965 [1 item]
1965.5.12 | 843/65 | A Private Tobacco Shop | 4 pages | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1966 [2 items]
1966.5.4 | 677/66 | Fõ-utca Prison | 6 pages | ![]() 1966.12.7 | 2209/66 | Regime Pressure on Hungarian's Refugee's Family | 1 page | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1967 [1 item]
1967.9.26 | 1881/67 | “Heti Híradó” | 1 page | ![]() |
List of Documents - 1971 [1 item]
1971.12.28 | N/A | Párttagok disszidálása | 3 pages | ![]() |
To support its broadcasting activity, the Radio Free Europe needed news from official sources behind the Iron Curtain as well as from reliable independent sources. For the purpose of securing these sources Field Offices were opened in Athens, Berlin, Bonn, Brussels, Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, and Vienna.
The information reports (referred to as “Information Items”) are based on interviews conducted with Hungarian immigrants and defectors in Western refugee camps and immigration offices or with Western travelers coming back from the Eastern Bloc as well as on RFE correspondence with anonymous sources from the socialist countries. The production and collection of these Items continued uninterrupted until 1972, when a scandal over RFE broke out in the US Congress. The Radio leadership at that time, urged by higher authorities at home, decided to destroy the Information Items. Only fragments have survived, and these can now be found in the OSA collections.
These documents provide information on a wide variety of topics relating to the former communist countries—from the communist party to prison conditions, from military issues to defectors, from economic problems to the reception of and reaction to RFE broadcasts. This particular selection contains primarily Items relating to Hungarian refugees who left the country after 1956.
The documents presented are organized in chronological order, by report reference code, and then by title; each of them contains an English summary with the core information in Hungarian.
For further details see archival description at: http://www.osa.ceu.hu/db/fa/300-40-4.htm
The information reports (referred to as “Information Items”) are based on interviews conducted with Hungarian immigrants and defectors in Western refugee camps and immigration offices or with Western travelers coming back from the Eastern Bloc as well as on RFE correspondence with anonymous sources from the socialist countries. The production and collection of these Items continued uninterrupted until 1972, when a scandal over RFE broke out in the US Congress. The Radio leadership at that time, urged by higher authorities at home, decided to destroy the Information Items. Only fragments have survived, and these can now be found in the OSA collections.
These documents provide information on a wide variety of topics relating to the former communist countries—from the communist party to prison conditions, from military issues to defectors, from economic problems to the reception of and reaction to RFE broadcasts. This particular selection contains primarily Items relating to Hungarian refugees who left the country after 1956.
The documents presented are organized in chronological order, by report reference code, and then by title; each of them contains an English summary with the core information in Hungarian.
For further details see archival description at: http://www.osa.ceu.hu/db/fa/300-40-4.htm