A Magyar Királyi Csendőrség hírszerzési és kémelhárítási feladatai

Abstract

The Hungarian Royal Gendarmerie activities on the fields of intelligence and counterintelligence: The Hungarian Royal Gendarmerie supported the intelligence and counterintelligence systems with several service activities all time. This institution’s main task was not a state security nature but during the Dualism effectively collaborated with the intelligence agencies. Before the 1st World War it assisted military intelligence afterwards during wartime helped the struggle with the enemy intelligence agents. Between the world wars the changeable social relations and the technological development made the intelligence functions of The Hungarian Royal Gendarmerie renewal. Thereafter this institution would be the main promoter of the national intelligence because formation of the criminal investigation division and appreciation of signaller section’s importance. The service activities of The Hungarian Royal Gendarmerie exactly fitted in to the national intelligence and counterintelligence system. My treatise summarizes the major points of this interesting connection.