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...After more than a year of negotiations, the U.S. State Department had reached a settlement with Hungary: after Vogeler's release, 1) the Hungarian consulates in New York and Cleveland, closed by the U.S. after his arrest, would be reopened; 2) as stipulated in the Hungarian peace treaty, Budapest would get all Hungarian goods seized by the Nazis during World War II and now held in West Germany. (This property does not include the crown of St. Stephen...
Vogeler told the reporters about the kind of pressure it had been. "There are two methods [to prepare one for trial], One is physical, one is mental. Both methods are used in Hungary." Before the trial, Vogeler lived for three months in a cell (at Budapest's notorious Andrassy Ut 60, the secret police headquarters) with two inches of water on the floor; he slept on a board just above the water. A bright light flooded his cell day & night, and when he tried to sleep someone kept banging against the wall. He had neither socks, underclothes, nor shirt...
...Communist Hungarian government announced last week that it would release Robert Vogeler, an American who has served 14 months of a 15-year sentence on a charge of spying. The U.S. Government, said Budapest, had "declared themselves to be ready to accede to various just Hungarian claims...
...Vogeler cabled President Truman for aid. When the Communists refused U.S. representatives access to Vogeler in prison, the U.S. closed Hungarian consulates in New York and Cleveland. In February 1950, Vogeler appeared before the People's Court in Budapest, said that he had been instructed by the U.S. Army intelligence headquarters in Vienna to get special information about radar production, rockets, uranium and oil deposits in Hungary and to help atomic scientists to flee the country. He was sentenced to 15 years. Two of the Hungarians were executed. Sanders got 13 years...
...world, jubilee was mostly high and unrestrained. "Victory for the Chinese and Korean people in the fight to resist American aggression," crowed Radio Peking. Rome's Red organ I'Unità echoed: "The criminal MacArthur fired because of the protest of the whole civilized world." The satellite Budapest press chanted a litany of satisfaction over the dismissal of a "bloody-handed hangman, murderous, carnivorous fascist." Only Moscow struck the suspicious as well as triumphant note. "Having removed the general who failed," warned the Literary Gazette for the ears of the Communist faithful, "Wall Street does not intend...