Secret Police Scandal

TV journalist and Eastern Europe expert Paul Lendvai, who has lived in Vienna since 1957, has publicly accused several former Vienna correspondents for Hungarian newspapers of spying on him for the Hungarian secret police. The newspaper comments on the correspondents' alleged ties with the secret police. "We don't want all those who used to work on an unofficial basis with the Ministry of State Security to be immediately fired, but editorial departments should be more cautious in their dealings with them in future. We still want to read their analyses of foreign affairs. After all, the state financed their visits abroad for years. But they should not be allowed to take sides in domestic policy disputes or to play the role of arbitrator in moral issues."

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