CIA • 1989

NID: HUNGARY: DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF NEUTRALITY

Approved for Release: 2019/10/29 C06826733 HUNGARY: Discussing the Possibility of Neutrality General Secretary Gorbachev's recent qualified endorsement of Ifungary.'s decision to introduce a multiparty system will stimulate the discussion o Hun arian neutrality already evident in official circles in Budapest. \Hungary wants a relationship with the USSR similar to that of Finland�friendly but outside the Warsaw l'act amci economically integrated with Western Europe. Budapest has permission from senior Soviet officials to withdraw from the Pact and CEMA...