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4 Miskolc J. Int'l L. 1 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/miskolc4 and id is 1 raw text is: Pter Kovics' - Jordan Thomas Rogers2 - Ernest A. Nagy': Forgotten or Remembered? - The US Legation of Budapest and the Hungarian Revolution of /956 - (A virtual and annotated conversation with Jordan Thomas Rogers, Ernest A. Nagy and Geza Katona serving at the American Legation in Budapest in 1956) I. Pter Kovics's Introduction - The antecedents of the project Some months ago, I wrote a short paper about diplomatic telegrams sent during the 1956 Revolution from the Budapest-based American, British and Soviet legations4. This article was based on two short booklets, containing a selection of diplomatic documents. ,,Secret reports was published in 1989 and it contains British and American6 diplomatic telegrams sent from Budapest and some of the replies and instructions received respectively from London and Washington. The ,,Yeltsin-dossier' is the compilation of different documents8 transmitted by Boris Yeltsin in 1992 to Arpid Goncz, the Hungarian President of the Republic. In that 1 P6ter Kovics is Judge at the Constitutional Court and Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Miskolc University and the P6ter Pizminy Catholic University 2Jordan Thomas Rogers is a former American diplomat who was between 1953-1957 at the American Legation in Budapest Ernest A Nagy is also a former American diplomat who served at the American legation in Budapest between 1952-1956. 4 P6ter Kovics: Understanding or Misunderstanding (About Diplomatic Telegrams sent from the American, British and Soviet Legations in Budapest between 23 October - 4 November 1956), Miskolc Journal of International Law, Vol 3(2006) No 3 (,,1956 Hungary) http://www.mjil.hu, pp. 14-27, ' Titkos jelent6sek 1956 okt. 23-nov.4, Hirlapkiad6 Publishers 1989 Budapest (in the following: Secret Reports) 6 I assume from a comparative reading of other articles written about diplomatic coverage of 1956 that the booklet published in Hungarian should be the translation of several pieces contained in: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955-1957, Eastern Europe. Volume XXV, Washington DC 1990 (FRUS Vol. XXV). However, there is no explicit reference to this in the habitual way. A ,,Jelcin-dosszi6 Szovjet dokumentumok 1956-r61 Szizadv&g, 1956-os Int&zet as Publishers 1993 Budapest (in the following: Yeltsin-dossier) ' Most of the documents liberated at that time from the most serious embargo, are reports about different meetings of the Politbureau of the Soviet Communist Party, or reports made by the Soviet ambassador to the UN and the instructions sent to him. This book, however contains also analyses made by Yuri Andropov (at that time ambassador to Hungary) or reports made by top Soviet officials (\Mikoyan, Suslov and KGB general Serov) during their mission in Hungary, transmitted by Andropov to Moscow. www.mjil.hu Miskolc Journal of International Law VoLUME 4. (2007) No. 1. pr. 1-38. 1

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