Borvendég Zsuzsanna: Fabulous Spy Games. How international trade networks with the West developed after 1945 - A Magyarságkutató Intézet Kiadványai 24. (Budapest, 2021)
ATTACK ON THE OMFB - The Siemens lobby
ATTACK ON THE OMFB of the legends around the accident is that Vályi was also one of those who were committed to the new economic mechanism, as did György Péter, who also died four years earlier under unclear circumstances.479 This book cannot afford to jump to conclusions, but it is clear that Vályi opposed the foreign trade lobby and belonged to a group with opposing interests. We also know that, although the financial-economic interest group put strong pressure on the members of the government to allow the foundation of joint ventures from the mid-1960s, the decree of the Ministry of Finance was issued only after Vályi resigned from the top job at the Ministry. 479 By this time, three of the politicians and economic experts supporting the new economic mechanism had already committed suicide. In the case of György Péter, that was the impression they tried to give at least. György Péter, the president of the Central Statistical Office, Károly Erdélyi, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party, and András Tömpe, a diplomat and officer of the Soviet secret service, killed themselves on 4 January 1969,19 March 1971 and 25 December 1971 respectively. Regarding the deputy ministers accident, it is worth mentioning that Sándor Énekes, the general manager of the steelworks in Diósgyőr, who tried to grab Vályi and fell between the furnaces himself but survived the horrific incident, was a pawn in the foreign trade lobby’s game of chess. Énekes assisted the abuse committed by Metalimpex in 1969, when it entered into a contract to manufacture tungsten steel, causing immense damage to the people’s economy. There has already been a brief mention of the information that came to light during the investigation against István Dévai in 1974. During the investigation, state security raised the culpability of Énekes, who had already been removed from the top job at the steelworks as a result of Vályi ’ s accident, but the statute of limitations had expired so those actually responsible remained unnamed. István Dévai, one of the masterminds behind the deal, was a committed source of MNVK-2 and was serving in Frankfurt when Sebestyén headed the trade office there. After returning home, he accumulated hard currency for military intelligence and transported secret money between the trade office in Rome and secret bank accounts in Switzerland. By exploiting the joint ventures founded by Metalimpex, he played a part in building the western offshore 171
