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ATTACK ON THE OMFB - Storm clouds
ATTACK ON THE OMFB explain this. Her daughter s father-in-law was János Borbándi,442 who was head of the Administrative Department of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party during the investigation into the ‘ Fábián case. He was also a member of the Defence Committee, which was the close defence cabinet of the Council of Ministers, and also as chairman of the Committee as deputy prime minister from 1974.443 Representing the technical council, Endre Simon had a continuous working relationship with Mrs Jelinek and instructed her in how to carry out her duties. Tapped telephone conversations and surveillance suggest that they had a subordinate working relationship, ‘ “Fábián carried out his legally suspicious activities for the benefit of western countries in cooperation and in agreement with Mrs Jelinek, [...] they worked together to develop their pricing policy and the rate of discount to be demanded.”444 Some of the business deals concluded through Transelektro, the agreements with Siemens in particular, must have resulted in major losses. According to the detectives, Mrs Jelinek helped cover this up by falsifying relevant data at the instructions of ‘ Fábián.445 By the time he realised that his previous allies were backing away from him, Endre Simon turned to Mrs Jelinek and her relative, Borbándi, whom 442 János Borbándi (1923-1994) was originally a mechanical fitter by occupation. He joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1945. He was the party secretary at the Metal Hardware and Machine Tools Factory, and at the Lenin Kohászati Művek steelworks in Diósgyőr between 1949 and 1953, and 1953 to 1955 respectively. In the 1950s, he graduated from the University for Economics in Budapest, then from the party college in Moscow in 1958. He was first secretary of the party committee of District II of the Budapest Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers> Party between 10 December 1958 and 4 September 1961. From September 1961 until 1966, he was the head of the political division at the Ministry of Defence, deputy minister with the rank of major general. In 1961, he was appointed to the Military Council of the Ministry of Defence (HM), before being elected member of the Central Control Committee (KEB) of the Hungarian Socialist Workers> Party. From 3 May until 3 December 1966, he was the deputy head of the Administrative Department of the Central Committee, then its head until 1974. He was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 21 March 1974 until 6 December 1984. He was also a Member of Parliament between 1963 and 1967, and a member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers> Party from 1970 until 1985. He lived in retirement from 1985 until he died in 1994. Library section of the Committee of National Remembrance (NEB) 443 Germuska - Horváth 2020 (Pending publication) 444 ÁBTL 3.1.5 0-15829/3, p. 99 Proposal, 9 March 1970 445 ÁBTL 3.1.5 0-15829/6, p. 134 Report, 26 October 1971 159
