It was one of Péter Magyar’s campaign promises: to allow access to communist secret informant files, 37 years after the end of the regime. This week, after having been processed to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information, there will be a database online with the first 60 thousand files and in which it will be possible to search for any name – previously it was only possible to manually access files belonging to the person themselves or direct family members in the case of ordinary citizens, with access allowed to historians under certain conditions.
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