Article 79JAD Hungary's secret police files expose decades of spying and betrayal

Hungary's secret police files expose decades of spying and betrayal

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Hungary has begun publishing the names of tens of thousands of people who spied for the communist-era secret police. The files are shedding light on a system that recruited ordinary citizens to inform on friends, neighbors and colleagues during more than four decades of communist rule, which ended in 1989. Among those named are a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, a senior bishop and a former governor of Hungary's central bank. The World's Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports.

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