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...Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year he had engaged in a plot to overthrow the Rakosi regime by force, on orders of Yugoslav Marshal Tito's Interior Minister, Alexander Rankovich...
Last year he went to Yugoslavia on an official visit. At the beautiful beach of Abbazia on the Adriatic, Rankovich entertained Rajk. The Yugoslav Communist led the Hungarian into a small room. They had several glasses of slivovitz, and then Rankovich told Rajk that Tito planned to overthrow Hungary's Communist-dominated government because it was loyal to> Stalin. Rankovich asked Rajk's help. To make it clear that a refusal would be inadvisable, Rankovich drew a paper from his pocket; it was a photostat of the paper Rajk had signed...
Rajk said that he then agreed to join the plot against Rakosi and other Hungarian Communists. "Rankovich told me,"Rajk said, "to annihilate them physically; that is, in plain Hungarian, to kill them...
Later that day, he told the court, he sneaked down behind the reviewing stand where he met Rankovich. They discussed details of the plotted coup d'etat...
...secret police force, OZNA (Committee for the Protection of the People), together with the Partisans, has liquidated an estimated 200,000 people and imprisoned an estimated 100,000. It has established agents in all Balkan countries and Italy. OZNA is headed by able, notoriously cruel Lieut. General Alexander ("Marko") Rankovich, 35, former journeyman tailor and veteran Communist...
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