Our witness made It abundantly clear that American diplomats In Budapest live In a virtual state of siege. Those Hungarians. he says. who fled from communism during the 1956 revolt and sought refuge throughout the free world have recently drawn onto themselves the particular attention of the AVH. The Soviets and the Hungarians. as part of a common venture. have decided to exploit this emigration for espionage and subversive purposes. Hungarian refugees living in the United States. who have become loyal American citizens. are hounded. blackmailed and coerced by threats against loved ones and relatives into serving the interests of Hungarian communism. It is to their credit that many refugees have refused to fall into this trap. But our witness said that everyone of them is under the AVH gun. I think we can assume that refugees from other Communistbloc countries are similarly threatened. Mr. Szabo told the committee that these Communist services will also resort to murder.
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