| Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed(euronews.com) | |
| 234 points by rdmuser 6 days ago | 70 comments | |
tl;dr: Hungary has released communist-era secret police archives for the first time, exposing 50,000-60,000 former informants via a public, searchable database at nyitottaktak.hu, with another 9,000 files due in February. PM Peter Magyar pushed through the disclosure after 35 years of stalled efforts, though historians caution the records are incomplete and sometimes inaccurate — only about a third of the estimated 150,000 Cold War-era agents are known, and some recruits never actually informed. | |
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