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	HU OSA 300-40-5
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 40:	Hungarian Unit
Series 5:	Biographical Files

Date(s) 1951-1993

Extent and medium 213 Archival boxes, 27 linear meters

Scope and content

This series consists of press clippings, news agency releases and RFE/RL research papers and monitoring materials.

The documents give information on about 5500 prominent and less prominent Hungarian state, opposition or dissident politicians, writers, actors, journalists and other public figures. Occasionally, speeches and publications by them are also included. Of outstanding interest are the files on leading personalities and martyrs of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter, József Mindszenty), opposition figures of the Kadar-regime, and the highest level communist party leaders (György Aczél, Béla Biszku, János Kádár, Zoltán Komócsin).

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material Hungarian

Finding aids

• 213 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available.

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-40-7 Biographical Card Files of Political Convicts, 1955-1967
• HU OSA 300-40-6 Biographical Card Files, 1948-1992
• Magyarországi Mindszentu Levéltár: http://leveltar.katolikus.hu/index.htm?http&&&leveltar.katolikus.hu/mindszenty.htm

Date(s) of descriptions

Aranged by Tibor Szigeti; described by Csaba Szilagyi on January 26, 1999; revised by Csaba Szilagyi on April 11, 2002.
Online version updated 6 January 2012