Émigré intelligence reporting (STOUT 2007)

Mark Stout, Émigré intelligence reporting, 

in

L. Johnson (ed.), „Handbook intelligence studies”, Routledge, London and New York, 2007

 

(259) Seeking to create a political arm for Kopjas, Zákó merged his group with the Anti-Bolshevik Hungarian Liberation Movement (AHLM) headed by General Ferenc Farkas. The AHLM was an attractive partner because it had contacts with the French military and with Ukrainian, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Slovak officers.42

 

(261) Similar delusions led to a remarkable proposal to the Spanish military sometime before the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Zákó suggested the creation of an Eastern European force including 5,000-each Hungarians, Slovaks, Czechs, Sudeten Germans, Romanians and Bulgarians. (…) The Spanish military showed some preliminary interest, but, unsurprisingly, nothing ever came of the project.53

 

(264) After absorbing Jessel’s bombshell study on the MHBK, the CIA started looking at other paper mills. A study presented to the Intelligence Advisory Committee in February 1952 looked at 18 cases with such names as “Orekhov,” “London Polish,” “Croat-Slovene,” and “Scattolini.”76 These included six paper mills, six cases of fabricators, and five hybrid cases. It also considered an additional case that appeared to “involve planned Soviet provocation.