Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 408-3-6

Title

Other Registers

Date(s)

1957 - 1988

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

1 Archival boxes, 0.12 linear meters

Context

Archival history

Originals are kept in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (ÁBTL).

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

This series includes documents related to the registers of the state security service that fall outside the scope of the other series.

A special category of collaborators were the „SzT” (top secret) officers, which included two different types: the first were persons, who were officers of state security and were put into civilian jobs, abroad or at home, the second type worked in jobs that made them privy to information valuable for the state security services. They were recruited just like other agents, and were given an officer’s rank and earned a double salary.

With the participation of most of the socialist countries, a standardized data base was created (SOUD, Sistema obedinennogo uchota dannikh o protivnike, Standardized System of Filing Data on the Enemy), accessible to all sister services who could also upload data.

In order to make the work of the state security system more efficient, a card system of subject and topic was created; the series includes related documents.

Again, in the spirit of modernization, a standard computerized system (EGPR, Standard Computerized Prioritizing System) was created, the introduction of which took several years and probably was never completed.

The State Security Authority (ÁVH), later the state security service kept handling and acquiring legal documents of jurisdiction that do not belong to the competence of the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security. The series includes the documents on acquiring files of courts and prosecutors.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

Similarly to network agents, two folders were kept for each “SzT” officer. Only an insignificant number survived. Similarly incomplete is the material of SOUD in Hungary, while the subject and topic cards were altogether destroyed at the time of the regime change. A significant part of the EGPR magnetic tapes are preserved by the Constitution Protection Office and are not open for research.

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

Arranged thematically, and chronologically.

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.