Evening star., 1949-09-16
Former Topped Admits Plotting
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and Emo Gero is communication
minister.
Chaplin Promise Reported.
Rajk said he told Mr.. Chapir
about this and that Mr.. Chapir
had promised Rankovic: "Wher
the action starts, the Unitee
States will somehow paralyze the
Soviet Union so the peoples de-
mocracies will be unable to act.
"Chapin hesitated but he later
admitted that such plans existed
in the United States" the tall
rangy ex-minister testified.
Rajk's long recital took foul
hours. The court then adjourned
until tomorrow morning. when th'
second defendant, 1t. Gen. Gyorg!
Palffy, former inspector of th'
Hungarian Army, is expected tt
take the stand.
Before he concluded, Rajk saie
Tito plotted to stir border strif'
with Bulgaria, liquidate the Greel
Communist guerrilla forces, in
corporate Albania into Yugoslavi'
and stake a military invasion O
Hungary.
(Often since Tito fell out
with Moscow because of his al
legged nationalism he has been
charged with attempting to alb
sorb Albania. So far as the
Greek situation goes, Tito actu-
ally has closed his border with
Greece, cutting off an import
ant source of aid to the Com
munist guerrillas.
First of Eight Defendants.
Rajk was the first Of eight de.
PENDANTS to enter a plea. His ples
came within 80 minutes of the
time the trial opened in the head
quarters of the Hungarian Meta.
Workers Union.
He repeatedly answered guilty
rs the presiding Judge of the five
member court read the charges
against him.
Before the pleas were entered
all the defendants had stood
rigidly for SIS minutes while the
court read the long indictment.
Two uniformed soldiers stooc
between the individual defendants
When the indictments had been
read, the seven other defendants
were taken from the courtroom
and Rajk was marched to the
microphone in front Of the bench
Of Presiding Judge Peter Janko.
Tells Story of Life.
After admitting his guilt, Rajk
began-in calm, clear and meas
ured tones-to tell the story OF
his life.
He admitted the claim in the
Governments indictment that he
had been a police informer since
1881, even while holding important
posts in the Communist Party and
the Communist-controlled gov
eminent.
In the course of his long recital
Of self-incrimination, Rajk soon
began naming his alleged Amer
ican and Yugoslav directors and
accomplices.
Himmler, named by Rajk. was
identified as having delivered te
Hungary after the war Hungarian
war criminals who had been cap
turd by the American Army IL
Germany and Austria.
Rajk claimed that Himmler and
Col. Kovach had given him in
structions on spying against the
government and plotting to over
throw it, even while he was its
Minister of Interior.
About his alleged relations with
Col. Kovach, he testified:
"Kovach, a member of the Amer
lean military mission to Budapest
visited me in the autumn Of 1945
and disclosed that he knew about
my previous activities as a police
agent. He requested me to work
for the Americans, threatening
that If I refused he would unmask
my activities.
Agreed to Make Reports.
IT, of course, agreed.
Having been q high-ranking
government official. I agreed to
report only about questions of high
politics to American officials in
Budapest-information which they
otherwise could not get.
"I informed Kovach about in
ternal political affairs that
rightist elements, Trotskyites
right-wing parties like the Small
Holders and the ring wing of the
Social Democratic Party were
busily organizing against the So
Wet Union and the Red Army.
"The activities were being con-
Quoted under the direction OF the
United States with the aim OF
helping the rightist government
come to power in Hungary, Ko-
vach told me.
my duty was to inform Kovach
about the progress Of these activl-
ties and to use my influence as
Minister of Interior to see that
nobody disrupted these rightist
activities"
Contacted by Himmler.
Rajk also told the court:
'Himmler contacted me in the
autumn of 1916, when he was il
legally in Hungary. His only pur-
pose on coming here was to have
irnnortant talks with me-"