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Hungary's Socialists set up top secret file archive group

Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány has asked historian János Kenedi to lead a seven member panel to draw up a list of secret service documents not yet transferred to the State Security Services Historical Archives. "The team will make recommendations on improving the conditions of accessing former state security documents for research and making them public," government spokesman Dávid Daróczi announced yesterday.

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