The continued deterioration in relations with Hungary; efforts to achieve the release of Robert A. Vogeler from Hungarian imprisonment 1

1. Robert A. Vogeler, an American citizen and Assistant Vice President of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, was arrested on November 18, 1949, by Hungarian security police on allegations of espionage and sabotage. Documentation regarding his arrest and detention incommunicado and other principal issues in the deterioration in relations with Hungary during 1949 is presented in Foreign Relations, 1949, vol. v, pp. 451 ff.


[557] The Minister in Hungary ( Davis ) to the Secretary of State

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