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...Monsignor Egon Turcsanyi, 65-year-old secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and 15 priests between the ages of 20 and 28. Turcsanyi, so ill he could not attend some of the sessions, was accused of plotting a fascist "counterrevolution" against the Red regime and stealing documents from the State Office for Church Affairs. According to the regime six of the priests "repented" their "crime": distributing leaflets and a message from Pope Pius XII, which stated "the people of Hungary live in misery...
...been an invalid for seven years, as well as Horthy's aged Minister of Industry, and the onetime head of the Hungarian manufacturers' association. Tied to this "Horthy plot" was a group of Roman Catholic priests, also rounded up. Among them was Father Egon Albert Turcsanyi, onetime secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is accused of leading an armed group to steal documents from the State Church Office on the orders of Cardinal Mindszenty (now in refuge in the U.S. Legation in Budapest...
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