Az „Ék” fedőnevű konspirált lakás a hírszerzés szolgálatában
Conspired Apartment “Wedge” in the Intelligence Service

Summary/Abstract: The study investigates the everyday relationship between Kádár Era society and the intelligence services through the history of a conspired apartment (so called K-apartment). The analysis addresses two main themes. On the one hand, based on archival documents, the K-apartment is studied as a clandestine space: the selection criteria and the circumstances of its acquisition, as well as the framework of its everyday operation are examined to see how it was possible to keep it from the rest of the building that the apartment was not lived in by tenants. On the other hand Soós also reconstructs the ways in which the everyday operation such as visits by various people, including high ranking ecclesiastic figures, participated in the life of the community. For five years, the apartment was used as a base of operations by the “Világosság” (Light) unit of intelligence officers working inside the State Office for Church Affairs. But the property continued to be in use for exchanging information for over a decade beyond the years of Világosság (1969–1973). The state security documents pertaining to the apartment allow an insight not only into its use as a conspired apartment but, through the analysis of the careers of the people involved in its operation, into the career prospects of intelligence officers as well.

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