Charles Gati emigrated from Hungary in 1956. The professor of politology has taken an outstanding part recently to try to support Premier Gyurcsány’s statement in Washington quoting American leaders who had allegedly criticized Viktor Orbán for not having dissociated himself from István Csurka’s words after September 11, 2001 who pried into the responsibility of the global US policy in the tragedy.
Only few people know that against the professor highly active in bilateral questions and against his wife working as undersecretary earlier in the State Department there was a national security investigation carried in the ’90-es. The row blew up in November 1996 when The Washington Times wrote about Toby Gati’s suspicious foreign connections. Toby Gati was responsible for the intelligence of the State Department and she had access to secret documents which gave evidence for her husband and a close family friend being connected with the Hungarian intelligence service.
According to The Washington Times Toby Gati’s was a political appointment supported by Hillary Clinton, her friend. The investigation into the case had been started by the FBI but later the State Department went on with the procedure. One of the questions was whether Mrs Gati gave informations to Andrey Koziryev, then Foreign Minister of Russia (Mrs Gati had been accomodated in Koziryev’s residence when she paid a visit to Moscow), while another document confirmed that her husband (who had been also working for the State Department) was a security risk.
The paper said it was another affair that focused the attention on the Gatis: this case had been initiated by Frank Foldvary, an intelligence analyst of Hungarian birth because he was discriminated in his work place because of secret NSA documents sent to Toby Gati, with a list of intelligence officers working the Hungarian embassy in Washington in 1990. Charles Gati demanded the list from Foldvary who declined this but it turned out from their conversation that a friend of the Gatis, Ivan Volgyes was connected with the Hungarian intelligence. Though the suspicion implied by the paper was remarkably grave, the later investigation cleared the Gatis and in January 1997 it was announced in a regular briefing of the State Department that Toby Gati was still enjoying the confidence of the government.
Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó
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