Hungary’s Secret Police Archives Chief Offers To Resign Amid Political Scandal (Worthy News Investigation)
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Gergő Bendegúz Cseh, Director General of the Historical Archives of the State Security Services (ÁBTL), offered his resignation at a meeting of the National Security Committee of the Parliament, Telex reports. The expert was responding to last week's error in which the names of more than 160 people were mistakenly published in connection with the agent files.
Since the Tisza representatives did not appear at the extraordinary meeting of the National Security Committee on Monday, it did not have a quorum, so it was quickly adjourned. However, Attila Péterfalvi, the chairman of the NAIH, did appear at the meeting and announced that he had initiated proceedings ex officio regarding the mix-ups in the database.
He had already announced on Kossuth radio on Friday that he would do so.
Hungary’s Secret Police Archives Chief Offers To Resign Amid Political Scandal (Worthy News Investigation)
The head of Hungary’s communist-era secret police archives said Friday he would offer his resignation after acknowledging that 164 people had been wrongly identified as collaborators, triggering demands for Prime Minister Péter Magyar and several senior officials to step down.
Cseh Gergő Bendegúz, the director general of the Historical Archives of the State Security Services, has offered his resignation after the names of 164 people were mistakenly included in the disclosed agent files. The meeting of the National Security Committee convened for Monday due to the scandal was without a quorum due to the absence of the representatives of the Tisza party, but the head of the archives answered questions anyway. According …
The error affected 164 people and involved a large file containing approximately 60,000 names. The archive apologized to those affected.
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