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==Background==

==Background==

[[File:5Hungria1919.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Hungary 1919. Famous Hungarian communist Bela Kuhn and his comrades flayed (skinned alive) dozens of political 'enemies' of communism. <ref>http://www.lietuvos.org/istorija/communism/</ref>]]

[[File:5Hungria1919.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Hungary 1919. Famous Hungarian communist Bela Kuhn and his comrades flayed (skinned alive) dozens of political 'enemies' of communism.<ref>http://www.lietuvos.org/istorija/communism/</ref>]]

Peters was born in the [[Austro-Hungarian]] Empire and was a petty officer in the Austrian Army in World War I.  After the [[Béla Kun]] revolution in Hungary, he joined the Communist Party and was a member of the short-lived ''Bela Kun'' [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]] government that seized power in Hungary in 1919.<ref>[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/8-3testimony.html Testimony of Whittaker Chambers] before the House Committee on Un-American Activities  

Peters was born in the [[Austro-Hungarian]] Empire and was a petty officer in the Austrian Army in World War I.  After the [[Béla Kun]] revolution in Hungary, he joined the Communist Party and was a member of the short-lived ''Bela Kun'' [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]] government that seized power in Hungary in 1919.<ref>[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/8-3testimony.html Testimony of Whittaker Chambers] before the House Committee on Un-American Activities  

Peters is identified as assisting Soviet espionage in deciphered KGB cables and in the KGB documents listed in ''The Haunted Wood'' by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev.  Many years later, he was located by Weinstein in Hungary and interviewed for Weinstein's book ''Perjury''.

Peters is identified as assisting Soviet espionage in deciphered KGB cables and in the KGB documents listed in ''The Haunted Wood'' by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev.  Many years later, he was located by Weinstein in Hungary and interviewed for Weinstein's book ''Perjury''.

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===External links===

* [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/005/355elztu.asp The Weekly Standard, ''Professors of Denial''] 21 March 2005

* [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/005/355elztu.asp The Weekly Standard, ''Professors of Denial''] 21 March 2005