764.00/8–2250: Telegram
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Kirk) to the Secretary of State 1
confidential
Moscow, August 22,
1950—4 p. m.
475. Insofar as we are aware last article by Varga appearing Moscow press published Pravda May 10. He had been in virtual oblivion since 1947,2 the first article bearing his by-line since that date having appeared Pravda March 19, 1950. If he has now become more or less permanent technician Hungarian regime,3 he would not be first satellite Communist to have returned, perhaps somewhat under shadow, to country of origin.
Kirk
- This telegram was relayed to Budapest at 11:30 a. m. on August 22.↩
- For consideration of the possible improvement in the position of the prominent Hungarian-born Soviet economist Yevgeny (Eugene) Samoylovich Varga during 1949, see Foreign Relations, 1949, vol. v, pp. 545–680 passim.↩
- Varga had been assigned in mid-1950 as economic adviser to the Hungarian Government, but he had returned to Moscow in September, where his position became more favorable.↩