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Viktor Orbán accused of having been an informant for the Securitate by Hungary’s former communist prime minister, Miklós Németh

Călin Nicolescu

6 November 2026, 10:55

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Miklós Németh, Hungary’s last communist prime minister, claims that he personally read three informer reports attributed to Viktor Orbán shortly before Hungary’s first free parliamentary elections in 1990. The documents allegedly contained information about Orbán’s fellow soldiers, including their political and religious views and personal lives.

In a statement submitted to Hungary’s Historical Archives of the State Security Services, Németh says that the reports were presented to him by the then Minister of Defense, Ferenc Kárpáti. The former prime minister specifies, however, that he was unable to verify the author’s identity or the authenticity of the handwriting and signature. Orbán denies having collaborated with the communist authorities and claims that he refused recruitment.

The disclosure comes after the publication, on November 4, of tens of thousands of secret police documents. Access is nevertheless partial: the database mainly covers the department responsible for suppressing domestic opposition, while the files of the foreign services were not included. The materials cover approximately 50,000–60,000 people, but the archives are incomplete because of the destruction and disappearance of documents after 1989.

In 2015, a military record referred to Orbán as a “social contact,” without proving the existence of any collaboration or reports signed by him.

Context: Hungary prepared in advance for the publication of the communist secret police archives and announced an online database

In Hungary, Prime Minister Péter Magyar made the publication of secret police files from the communist period a politically backed promise, and in September the government adopted a law allowing the archives to be declassified. The documents were to be made available online, including to people who are not researchers, through a searchable database.

The program was described as having two stages: the first, with the launch of publication on November 4, followed by a second tranche scheduled for February 25, 2027, when approximately 9,000 “B” files were to be released. To protect sensitive personal data, the government announced that some information would be anonymized (including medical and private-life data), and that the archives would contain both the names of informants and officers and those of people targeted for recruitment.