Hungary Publishes First State Security Files Covering Records on 58,000 Network Persons
Hungary's Historical Archives of the State Security Services published the first group of state security files on 4 November 2026. The Hungarian government's information page says the release includes '6' registration cards, B recruitment logs and magnetic-tape registers containing data on 58,000 network persons, and that roughly 10,000 surviving recruitment dossiers will be published progressively by 25 February 2027, with the records searchable online.
The release fell on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet military intervention that crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising. The government presented the publication as a step in facing the past. The archive itself cautions that the surviving records are incomplete, that different records carry different evidential weight, and that a registration card alone does not establish the full circumstances of a person's cooperation, so judgements about named individuals require more material.
In the same week, the government published several further decisions. A government decree of 5 November creates the National Living Environment Supervisory Authority, a new nationwide environmental authority that will come into being on 1 January 2027, with the environmental and water units of the government offices merging into it on 1 July 2027; supervision of the battery industry is among its key tasks.
Also on 5 November, a government resolution provides up to 93.028 billion forints for the 2026 subsidies of the Szechenyi Card Program, financed from funds returning from the 2014-2020 financial instruments. The Szechenyi Card Program is Hungary's preferential financing scheme for small and medium-sized businesses.
A government resolution of 6 November reallocates 40.5 billion forints from the Household Utility Protection Fund to compensate district-heating providers, with the aim of keeping the district-heating fund in surplus from November 2026 through January 2027; the finance minister is responsible for the immediate reallocation. The decrees and resolutions were published in the Hungarian Gazette.
(Source: Government of Hungary)
Source: Government of Hungary
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