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Paul Marik was born November 28, 1902, at Szolnok, Hungary He
attended the University of Economics and Political Science in Budapest and
the School of Economics and Political Science in London. He has been employed
since as follows Secretary to Hungarian Delegation to British Clearing
House, London, 1925-28; Hungarian Consulate, Winnipegs Canada, 1928=32;
Journalist for Vancouver Daily Province and Hungarian News, Winnipeg, 1932-
35, Hungarian Consulate, Winnipeg 1936 to severance of relations with Canada
in 1941; Hungarian Legation, Washington, Do C. until December, 1941; Press
Attache, Hungarian Foreign Office, Budapest, 1942 to German occupation of
Hungary, March, 1944, Political Department of the Foreign Office, May to
November, 1945, Hungarian Legation, Washington, Do Co, 1945-January, 1948;
Hungarian Consul at Cleveland, March, 1948, to resignation March 13, 1949.
Reliable sources have described Marik as a strict opportunist who,
having no political affiliations, will ally himself with whatever group
affords greatest opportunity for personal advancement. He was not popular
with other personnelo
Bela Lahocsinszky was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, February 3, 1910.
Following a public schocl education in Hungary, he studied scale mechanics
at a Budapest technical school. He pursued this trade in Toronto, Canada
and Budapest from 1925 to 1948, except for periods in 1933-34, 1938, 1939
and 1941 when he served in the Hungarian Army Captured by the Russians in
August, 1941 and interned until September, 1946, he meanwhile attended Soviet
courses in Communist history, dialectics and propaganda. He was a member of
the Hungarian Communist Party in 1946 and 1948, allegedly as a matter of
expediency, since he claimed to be actually anti-Communist in his views. In
December, 1948 he entered the Hungarian Ministry of Industry and in February,
1949 was appointed to the New York Consulate. He resigned when recalled
May 18, 1949 fearing that his true anti-Communist attitude had been dis-
coveredo He has a brother, Joseph Carl Linn of Cleveland, Ohio, who came to
this country in 1922 with the entire family but remained when the others
returned to Hungary in 1925.
IV. INTELLIGENCE OPERATTONS IN THE UNITED STATES
Ao The Hungarian Intelligence and Security Services
Intelligence operations of the Hungarian police state are primarily
under the State Defense Department (Allamvedlmi Osztaly en A.O.) of the Minis-
try of the Interior and the Military Political Department (Katonai Politikai
Osztaly - K.P.O.) a, virtually autonomous division of the Ministry of National
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