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The rights of the concerned people
Remembrance in Time
In the Czech Archive of the State Security the information-compensation of the former
victims is regulated by the law no. 107/2002. According to that the concerned people can
have introspect to the files relating to them, and they can get a copy of the documents. As
there are no special criteria to become a researcher, at the Archive of Prague anybody can
be considered as a researcher and handled in the same way. The cartons about the health
of the members of the former State Security Authority can not be researched by the
researchers or the citizens investigating about their own documents.
Scientific and other researches
Researches can placed without any support or “qualifying” process, everybody is
entitled to research after signing the application for researching, accepting the rules
regulating the process. The documents are not made nameless in the Czech Republic,
however, the documents relating to the health of the members of the State Security
Authority can not be examined. The situation is the same with the other health-related
documents, issued by an official healthcare institution. At the same time the researchers
undertake to handle all the documents keeping all the Privacy regulations.
Publication
The Czech Institute for state security and the archive widely publishes the operative
registers, and the cartons of the officers and the people involved in the agents’ net.
According to the information from the colleagues of the institute they have this
possibility, because the majority of these registers have been published after the Slovakiarelated
documents had been handed over to Bratislava.
Up to February 2010 the cartons of the former civil intelligence’s officers were
published (total 1350 pcs), just as the registers of the several files and also the registers of
the civil and military security files.
To avoid the accuses of manipulation the Institute Researching the Totalitarian Regimes
publishes not lists, but the digitalized copies of the original cartons and registers, without
any comments.
According to their own point of view they don’t state of anybody to be a member of the
StB, they only publish, that there are such documents in the archive.
Hungary
The Hungarian regulation is similar to the Polish.
The Historical Archives of State Security employs about 100 colleague, and they store
about 4000 linear meters of documents.
According to the 2 nd paragraph of the Statute on III. Of 2003. the successor bodies of
the organisation creating the documents is entitled to maintain the classification of the
files, and don’t need to hand over them to the Historical Archive. According to the
current estimations, based on the information of the State Security Service, 8% of all
documents are covered by the above statute.
The data of the 18 magnetic computer tapes, discovered by the Kenedy-committee can
be also included in the above category. However, it is a fact, that these magnetic tapes
don’t contain any original files, only administration records, arranged in a database. If the
content of the above tapes were possible to discover, they wouldn’t become evidence.