The Archives Apologized for Mistakenly Including a Well-Known Politician in the Agent Database

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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.

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The Archives apologizes.

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The head of the Tisza government apologized to the elderly politician for the error in the ÁBTL IT system.

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BUDAPEST – The chairman of the parliamentary group of the Hungarian opposition party Fidesz, János Bóka, is demanding the suspension of the website with documents of the former state security. The reason is the case of the well-known Hungarian politician Sándor Lezsák, whose name was mistakenly included in the lists. This is reported by the Budapest correspondent, referring to the 24.hu server.

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The name of Sándor Lezsák was mistakenly listed as a network person in an online database containing agent files. The Historical Archives of the State Security Services acknowledged that there had been an IT error and announced that the former Deputy Speaker of the Parliament was actually listed as a person under surveillance in the documents. Péter Magyar publicly apologized for the incident.