Evening star., 1950-02-19
VoqeIer
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( Vogeler
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4 Laszlo Rajk, the country's former
( No. 2 Communist.
4 The prosecutor does not ask fol
4 specific penalty. He may ask
4 for "a severe penalty" and the
4 FIVE man Peoples Court decides
\ whether it is to be death, or life
\ Imprisonment as in the case OF
< the cardinal, or a lesser sentence
4 Following him. each defendant
4 lawyer presents arguments for
4 leniency.
< Un previous spy cases, de-
4 Tending lawyers generally have
I spent most of their time ac-
( knowledging the strength of the
Government case)
Final Statement Permitted.
Each defendant is then per-
4 mitted what is known as a last
words" statement-a discourse as
long as he wishes in his own plea
for leniency The the court an
nounces the sentence.
The Budapest press, which has
! been silent about the trial, sud-
denly printed long accounts today
with comments like that in Sza-
bad Nep, organ of the Hungarian
Workers (Communist Party:
The defendants are the vanguard
of the new world war"
Nepszava, trade union daily,
said, Again the enemies of the
people, mean beasts and cynical
agents are in court. The Anglo
( Saxon imperialists are preparing
/ for war, sending saboteurs and
gangsters to peaceful countries. -
Helped Atom Experts Escape.
Mr.. Vogeler, vice president of
the International Telephone and
Telegraph Company. said he had
acted under orders to help experts
on atomic energy escape from
Hungary.
He said a DR.. Edsler, whom he
identified as an Austrian atom ex-
pert, had been smuggled out of
Austria, apparently with the help
of the American Office of Director
of Intelligence in Vienna.
Il used my business activities
only as cover for my espionage
! work" he testified.
These were the highlights of a
court session at which three Hun
garians, the last defendants in the
trial, also pleaded guilty to sabo-
tage and espionage. They were
Edna Doery, hotel barmaid and
telephone operator listed as
Baroness; Klemen Domokos
chief accountant for the Standard
Electric Co., Hungarian subsidy of
I. T. & T.. and the Rev. Istvan
Justh, a Catholic priest.
Three other defendants pleaded
guilty yesterday. They were Mr..
Vogeler's British assistant, Edgar
Sanders, and two Hungarians
1mre Geiger, director of the Hun
garian company, and Zoltan Rado
a section chief of the Hungarian
Ministry of Heavy Trade.
Qn Vienna. Mr.. Vogeler's Bel
gian-born wife said: 1T is OBJ
vious to any one who knew Bob
at alb that he has been drugged
or subjected to some kind of
torture to make him say all
these things. I don't know
whether the torture was mental
or physical-but they have cer-
tainly done something under
handed during the last three
months"
(Similar expressions of disbe-
lief in his confession came from
State Department officials and
! his business associates. Col.
Sosthenes Behn, chairman of
I. T. & T.. in New York, said
! dates and alleged activities men
toned in the Vogeler confession
were "at variance with the
\ known facts"
Main Points in Testimony.
Self-possessed and speaking
without show of emotion or
strain from his incommunicado
imprisonment since November 18,
Mr.. Vogeler answered with a sim
pie "yes" this question Were you
a trained specialist intelligence Of.
f1cer of the United States Army?"
These were the major points in
his testimony:
The Standard company was only
a cover organization of intelli-
gence"
Most of the American business
men in Eastern Europe are
specialists instructed to collect in
formation which they have to
turn over to the headquarters of
Army intelligence in the United
States.
AS an electrical and mechani-
cal engineer trained at Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology
and the Naval Academy at An
Inapolis, Espionage in the techni-
cal field is my specially"
The Standard company, which
Hungary nationalized last month
had close connections with the
United States Army general staff
high-ranking Army officers were
appointed as its executives and it
was under military control"
He had been an American agent
since 1912 and his superiors in
cluded a Brig. Gen. Howard
tBrig. Gen. Edward Howard went
to Austria from Italy with Gen
Mark Clark in 1916 and was direc.
tor of intelligence in. United Statel
Army headquarters in Vienna un-
til late 1916. sE
Returned With Behn in 1948.
Mr.. Vogeler's reports on mill
tary. economic, political and tech.