Borvendég Zsuzsanna: Fabulous Spy Games. How international trade networks with the West developed after 1945 - A Magyarságkutató Intézet Kiadványai 24. (Budapest, 2021)
‘THE HUNGARIAN MAFIA’ - A chink on the peace front: Frankfurt am Main
FABULOUS SPY GAMES the cover name of HENNE,196 which used a member of the Gehlen organisation, Helmut Triska, to get close to Junger and obtain information from behind the Iron Curtain.197 The Americans attempted to approach Junger not only through Triska, American military counterintelligence, ODOPAL198 as the CIA called them, also set its sights on the state protection agent. Even KUBARK itself, that is the CIA, made moves to contact him via a dissident.199 This fervent interest can be attributed to the fact Junger used his nexuses with impressive skill, while Western secret services were already realising that Hungarian foreign trade was easing a wedge under the Iron Curtain. The background to the foundation of companies explained in the previous chapter suggests, of course, that the American secret service was not merely an idling observer but an active initiator of this business network. In other words, they knowingly and willingly ensured the conditions necessary to keep the back door open, and were clearly keen to reap the benefits of this network for intelligence purposes. The Americans were very much aware that Junger was an agent of the State Protection Authority and therefore represented an opportunity to penetrate the Tront lines ’ of the enemy. The level of information they held is indicated by the fact they were also aware that Miklos Bauer was Jungers supervising officer too, so when the notorious leaders of the State Protection Authority were arrested in 1953, they expected Junger to be summoned home, in response to which he might refuse 196 HENNE was the cover name for the operation launched against the Hungarian trade office in Frankfurt by Gehlens organisation, which went by the cover name of ZIPPER. Research Aid: Cryptonyms and Terms in Declassified CIA Files Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Disclosure Acts https://www.archives.gov/files/ iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/second-release-lexicon.pdf (Downloaded on: 21 August 2019) 197 CIA, FOIA, Special collection of Helmut Triska, 14 October 1953 https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/TRISKA%2C%20HELMUT_0055.pdf (Downloaded on: 21 August 2019) 198 ODOPAL: US Army Counterintelligence Corps. Research Aid, https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/secondrelease-lexicon.pdf (Downloaded on: 21 August 2019) 199 CIA, FOIA, Special collection of Helmut Triska, 14 October 1953 https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/TRISKA%2C%20HELMUT_0055.pdf (Downloaded on: 21 August 2019) 72
