Socialism

Nothing says authoritarianism like responding the Hungarian People's Republic request for aid in suppressing a bourgeois counterrevolution.

I wonder what will happen to Radio Free Europe’s back catalog now that it’s been defunded.

RFE And The Hungarian Revolution — Original Broadcasts, Reporter’s Diary Now Online

RFE’s role during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution has been the subject of debate by researchers and Hungarian exiles. A. Ross Johnson, a former Director of RFE, has concluded on the basis of extensive research that RFE “did not” foment revolution or urge Hungarians to wage a hopeless fight against the Soviet Army, but many listeners believed from the tone of some RFE commentaries and the very existence of RFE Hungarian broadcasts that Western powers would intervene on their behalf.

This has apparently been publicly available since at least 2010, because I found it in that year’s edition of A. J. Weberman’s Coup d'etat In America: The CIA and the Assassination of JFK

https://archive.org/stream/CoupDetatInAmerica/NODULE%2018%20OSWALD%20IN%20NEW%20ORLEANS_djvu.txt

OS INDICES RESULTS:

Laureano Batista, a 32 year old Cuban exile, was from a wealthy Cuban family and in Cuba he was a banker. He was granted a POA in December 1959 and an OA in February 1960 for use as a PP agent in Havana, Cuba.

A copy of a letter in Subject's file dated November 22, 1963 signed by Subject as Secretary for Military Affairs, Executive Committee, Movimiento Democrata Cristiana (Christian Democratic Movement) is addressed to Major General Bela K. Kiraly, President, Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, Inc., and offered the services of the MDC in arranging meetings and discussions with other anti-CASTRO organizations and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters. The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were (deleted) was interested in information on the MDC before granting approval for contact between the two organizations.