HE SITUATION IN HUNGARY (information asovember)
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The reinforcement of Soviet units in Hungary during the past three days, coincident with the movement of Soviet troops already within the countryecent switch in the USSR's propaganda line concerning Hungarian politicalindicate an imminent Soviet move to block Hungarian efforts to sever virtually all ties with Moscow. These developments also suggest that the USSR is now prepared to resume hostilities if the present show-of-force falls to "correct" what Moscow has already called an alarming situation.
now accept the validity of Premier Nagy's complaint to the United Nations that the USSR is sending heavy Soviet troop reinforcements into Hungary. These sources credit reports that atoviet tanks have recently entered the country from the USSR and Rumania. The USSR, probably reacting tosudden and unilateral withdrawal from the Warsaw pact and its request to the United Nations to guaranteeneutrality, has apparently deployed Soviet forces throughout the country in strategic areas and has surrounded or occupied key urban centers.
According to the American army attache in Budapest, Soviet troops in western Hungary have in effect sealed Hungary's border with Austria and thus have severed all contacts with the West except for existing electricalfacilities. The attache also reported theof sporadic firing by machine guns and heavier weapons
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in Budapest, beginning0 hours (Budapestnd noted that present Soviet troop dispositions in the area render the situation "critical for the nationalists."
Hungarian forces under control of the Nagy regime and insurgent forces in the provinces are reportedly preparing for action, but Indications ofhave been limited to the attache's report of firing in Budapest. The Nagy regime has pressed its fight for United Nations action--sending three notes to that bodyovember--but is not yet ready to assume that the USSR has committed "an act ofoping for the best, the new first deputy minister of defense, insurgent hero Major General Pal Maleter, Informed the press on 2that Soviet first deputy premier Mikoyan promised in Budapest onctober that Soviet troops other than those stationed in Hungary under the Warsaw pact would befrom the country.
Possibly in preparationew Soviet move in Hungary, broadcasts from Moscow duringovember stated, In thinly-veiled language, that the USSR views with alarm the present "tense" and "chaotic" situation in Hungary and warned Budapestrongondemning Hungarian declarations of neutrality and asserting that "reactionary count err evolutionaristrengthened by reinforcements arriving from Austria with Americanscored at least partial successes, the broadcasts pointed out that such events are not questions which concerningle socialist country."
Nov 56
Intelligence Bulletin
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