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===International activities===
The ÁVH also assisted the Soviet sphere security apparatus by staging [[show trial]]s. In two cases, the ÁVH was given the privilege of leading an attack on undesired elements throughout Hungary. In 1948 the Roman Catholic Cardinal [[József Mindszenty]] was tried and imprisoned. In 1949, the ÁVH arrested [[Hungarian Communist Party]] member [[László Rajk]], who was then tried and executed for [[nationalism]] and [[Titoism]] in a show trial that signified to the international communist movement that [[Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] was now a threat. (László Rajk was the man who had organised the ÁVH.)