IT Glitch Brands 160 Surveillance Victims as Communist-Era Spies
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Hungary’s communist secret‑police files go online – and a Fidesz MP is named by mistake (Day 178 of the Tisza government)
Budapest finally opens its communist-era files and trims money for cultural and diaspora projects. Prime minister Péter Magyar navigates a minefield where each disclosure risks empowering Fidesz loyalists and unsettling Hungary’s neighbours alike.
The Hungarian opposition party Fidesz, led by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is demanding the immediate suspension of the website nyöztötaktak.hu, which has been publicly accessible since Wednesday with the names of 60,000 informants and confidants of the communist secret security. According to the Fidesz party, the current ruling party Tisza is lumping perpetrators and victims together.
IT glitch brands 160 surveillance victims as communist-era spies
An IT error caused approximately 160 names of people registered not as agents but as surveilled individuals to be published — alongside the name of former member of parliament Sándor Lezsák — on the website nyitottaktak.hu, the director general of the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security Services told MTI on Thursday.
The name of Sándor Lezsák appeared in the útszettaktak.hu database due to an IT error, the Historical Archives of the State Security Services (ÁBTL) announced. The institution emphasized that Lezsák appears on the magnetic tapes as a person under surveillance, not as a network person, and apologized for the misunderstanding caused.
The Archives apologizes.
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