HUNGARY: It Could Happen to Anybody

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Had he been drugged, a reporter wanted to know. Said Vogeler: "That is a difficult thing to determine ... If you are kept awake long enough, you don't know whether you are drugged or whether your mind just ceases to function normally. I was given stimulants to keep awake. Coffee and cigarettes were forced on me." He had not been given any injections.

With Some It Takes Longer. Did Vogeler want to repudiate his confession at the trial? Vogeler slowly crushed his cigarette in an ashtray. Said he: "There was some truth in it." But he added: "It is just a question of time before you confess. With some it takes a little longer than others, but nobody can resist that treatment indefinitely." Reporters took away the impression that they had not yet heard the whole story.

"Oh, what they must have done to him!" Mrs. Vogeler said. "He was such a strong man, and now he is weak as a baby and so nervous." This week, making a statement for TV before flying home to the U.S., Vogeler broke down, weeping, but he managed to deliver his "message to the American people." Said he: "God has given us the mission to destroy the Communist enemies of freedom . . . Every individual American should realize that what happened to me could happen to anybody."