TREASON TRIAL: FORMER RED LEADER ACCUSED
BUDAPEST, September 20 (Rec. 1 p.m.).—Eight witnesses ‘ denounced Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Communist Foreign Minister, at his trial for treason today. . They said he was an anti-Commun-ist police informer before the war, a Trotskyite agent in Spain and France, and since the war a spy for the Americans and Jugoslavs. One of those who testified against Rajk was ..his own brother-in-law, a retired captain named Lajos Bokor. Some of the witnesses said that even while Rajk was in-the Hungarian Cabinet they had seen him at a rendezvous camouflaged as hunting parties, plotting with the Jugoslav Minister of the Interior, General Alexander Rankovich, against Hungary’s Communist-controlled Government . Deszo Nemet, a former Hungarian colonel, told the court he spied for Marshal Tito early this year while assigned to Moscow as Hungarian military attache. He said he relayed Russian military secrets to a Jugoslav named Karlo Mrazovic. The trial was adojurned until tomorrow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1949, Page 5
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