Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 408-3-8

Title

Individual Case Files

Date(s)

1968 - 1999

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

13 Archival boxes, 1.62 linear meters

Context

Archival history

Originals are kept in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (ÁBTL) and the Budapest City Archives (BFL). Some of the documents were collected by László Varga.

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

Documents in the series are the product of Varga’s research and his experiment with Gábor Demszky in which Varga requested the same documents from the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security as Demszky had earlier as the subject of state security investigations. The series includes the state security files on other persons too.

Part of the documents are the state security (investigation) files concerning the “Maoist case” (György Pór and allies) in 1968, and the full trial documents. After his release, György Pór and his wife Zsuzsa Kőrösi were subjected to a secret investigation under the code name “Allied”, which lasted until the couple left the country.

The full documentation of the less well known political trial against philosopher Csaba Kemény and his allies is also part of the series.

Gábor Demszky (university student, later publisher of samizdat press and the mayor of Budapest after the regime change) was first covered by the Pór investigation, and later became the main target, among other university students, of the secret investigation “Anarchists”.

Demszky was also involved in the case “Printers”. The basis for the secret investigation launched in 1972 was a flier disseminated mostly among university students in Budapest; the act was repeated later in a different form. The state security investigation lasted six years and produced no results. The documents make up 8 folders.

The series includes files on Demszky from other cases, as well as typewritten documents on the Flying University organized by the democratic opposition.

A small amount of German language files in the series on Alíz Halda (teacher) and István Szepesi, a West German citizen were released to them by the Hungarian and German authorities after the regime change.

State security files on “nationalists”, documents of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party on the democratic opposition, files on Balázs Lados, university student in Szeged and the hostage affair in Balassagyarmat in 1973 are organized in separate folders.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

The series is made up of the almost full set of documents of priority state security investigation and court procedures (Pór, Kemény, „Anarchists”, „Printers”)

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

Arranged basically chronologically, and then either according to original arrangement of thematically.

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

The general rules of research in OSA Research Room apply.

Conditions governing reproduction

A dokumentumok oktatási és kutatási célból digitálisan másolhatók az OSA kutatótermében.

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by László Varga, March 2, 2015.