36 years later: Hungary opens Communist-era secret service files

On November 4, 1956, tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers and tanks swept into Hungary , brutally suppressing the country's anti-Communist uprising. Decades of dictatorship followed, relying on Hungary's brutal secret police to keep the system in place. Events on Nov. 4 this year represent something of a reckoning with this dark chapter of Hungarian history. Prime Minister Peter Magyar's government is ordering the full release of the country's secret police "agent files," which contain the names of Hungarian state security informants, some of whom cooperated out of their own volition even as others passed on information unwittingly. Magyar and his Tisza party had previously promised to make the "agent files" public if elected.