Vadai asked Orbán in March whether he had had any dealings with state security in the previous regime as documents published online suggested that he worked for the state security service under the cover name of Gábor Győri.

One of the documents posted by Orbán on his website reads that the communist-era interior ministry detained him in 1983 for disturbing the peace and “publishing articles besmirching democracy and democratic rights”.

In a letter to Vadai, Orbán wrote that during his military service he rejected attempts to recruit him and later on his wife and associates were kept under continued surveillance.

Informants were posted to watch him, and bugging devices were planted in their workplaces, homes and even his bedroom.

Secret service documents reveal that a secret investigation named operation Viktória monitored Orbán as an organiser of opposition activity in the 1980s.

Orbán said he supports the idea that everyone be able to familiarise themselves and make public the secret service data on themselves from the communist era.
However, Orbán, who has resisted calls to make all such files public, added that victims of the dictatorship should be protected from becoming victims again."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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