okładka

No. 18 (2020)

ISSN:
1733-6996

eISSN:
2957-1707
Section: Materials and documents

A Report from a Clandestine Meeting of Security Chiefs from the Socialist Countries, 7–12 March 1955

Imre Okváth

graduated as a historian in 1981 from the University of Debrecen. After that he started working as a military historian at the Institute of Military History of the Hungarian People’s Army, his field of research was the Hungarian military policy in the period 1945 and 1956. In 1989 he defended his doctoral thesis concerning this topic. From 1997 on, he has been the Head of the Analytical Department of the Historical Office, and from 2003, the Head of the Scientific Department of the Historical Archives of the State Security Services. He received his CSc degree in 1999. His field of research is the operation of military intelligence and counterintelligence between 1945 and 1990, on which he has published in a number of academic publications. He has taught as a guest lecturer at the Institute of Historical Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. Since the beginning of October 2020, he is a scientific adviser to the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security

Aparat Represji w Polsce Ludowej 1944-1989, No. 18 (2020), pages: 687-713

Publication date: 2023-03-29

https://doi.org/10.48261/ARPRL201823

Abstract

In parallel with the preparations for the establishment of the Warsaw Pact, arrangements were made by the KGB to build closer co-operations between the state security services. On the Soviet side, they aspired to convene a joint meeting as soon as possible, where the intelligence leaders of seven socialist countries could discuss a better organization and management – instead of the looser contacts through ubiquitous Soviet advisers – of intelligence, espionage, radio reconnaissance and operational technology. Following the motions adopted at the meeting, socialist intelligence became more cooperative against the major Western states, within the counter-espionage, offensive intelligence had become dominant. The specific tasks of the intelligence services of each country have also been defined separately, e.g. the reconnaissance of the American emigrant military force became a priority joint task of the Hungarian and Polish intelligence services. An important consequence of the decisions of the Moscow conference was that state security agencies in all participating countries further strengthened their positions within the repressive apparatus, which had serious consequences in the political struggles that soon became critical in some states of the alliance.

This paper is a translation of a publication Jelentés a szo-cialista országok állambiztonsági vezetőinek titkos moszkvai tárgyalásairól, 1955. március 7–12, „Hadtörténelmi közlemények”, no. 114 (2001).


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okładka

No. 18 (2020)

ISSN:
1733-6996
eISSN:
2957-1707

Data publikacji:
2020-12-29

Dział: Materials and documents