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NID: HUNGARY: TENSION WITH ORTHODOX NEIGHBORS GROWING

Approved for Release: 2019/10/29 C06826747 HUNGARY: Tension With Orthodox Neighbors Growing Hungary's reform-oriented leaders find the attitudes of the orthodox regimes in Romania and Czechoslovakia increasingly threatening and are reassessing Hungarian national security interests. Budapest believes Prague and Bucharest have jointly targeted their security services against Hungary Moreover Romanian officials warned the Hungarians an armed clash could not be excluded if Budapest continues to press Bucharest about its treatment of the ethnic Hungarian minority in Romania. Czechoslovakia and Romania stridently denounced the reburial of Imre Nagy, the executed leader of the 1956 revolution, accusing Budapest of counterrevolutionary tendencies...