györgy pálffy was appointed as the leader of the newly established agency and with this decision the new agency came under the control of the hungarian communist party. pálffy was a former military officer, who resigned his commission in 1939, partly because of his anti-nazi sentiments, but also because of her wife was from a jewish family. károly beregfy, the later pro-nazi defence minister, who was pálffy's commander told him, that pálffy would have a splendid career, if he would divorce "that jewish whore". after a brief confrontation pálffy left the army, and started to work in a factory, where he became a member of the illegal communist party. in 1944 he became the chairman of the military committee of the communist party and took part in the resistance movement in budapest.