https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/36-years-later-hungary-opens-communist-era-secret-service-filesContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/36-years-later-hungary-opens-communist-era-secret-service-fileshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/36-years-later-hungary-opens-communist-era-secret-service-files#u187069Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:47:03 +0000Hungary has released its communist-era secret service files, 36 years after the end of Soviet rule. The files identify thousands of former informants who spied on citizens for state security services during decades of one-party rule. Anyone can now search the database, revealing information that may be difficult for some families to handle.Why it mattersThe release of these files is part of Hungary's reckoning with its Cold War past. The country's communist-era secret police, known as the State Protection Authority, operated from 1948 to 1990, collecting information on citizens and s