The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL COLLECTION - The Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security by Gergő Bendegúz Cseh

This section includes the functional documents of organizational unity formed by the former state security organizations and which are maintained separately. Section 2.: State security documents that do not belong to any organizational entity. Documents created and treated by other or different organizations and organizational entities and documents treated in different ways belong here. Section 3. : Operative and documents of investigation Most documents of the archives can be found here. Documents like investigative, operative, work- enlisting, flat and informative files. Section 4.: Collections This is the section of different background documents and collections used by state security organizations. Section 5.: Documents after the year of 1990. This is the section of documents guided to the collection area of the archives by the Parliamentary act and which was establisheded after 1990the documents of the so-called observing committees. According to the act, the documents that should belong to the archives but are treated in other institutions have to be observed and the ones that lost their classification have to be given over to the archives. According to the above mentioned conditions the archives acquire and process gradually the documents from other outer institutions. After the necessary archival processing the documents are provided for citizens and researchers taking the rules of act into consideration. The quantity of the documents of the Historical Archives was 3,100 linear metres at the end of 2003. Two thirds were documents classified in different typed files. The remainder of the documents belonged to functional documents of the former state security organizations, the collections and background