Contributions to the history of the Hungarian pontifical institute from the perspective of the Hungarian secret services during the cold war

At the secret meeting of the secret services of the Eastern Bloc member states organized in Moscow in March 1955, the main tasks of each socialist secret service were outlined. The Hungarian services, in addition to the intelligence activities directed against the emigrant centers in the capitalist states, received a task to launch informational actions against the Vatican in the next decade. The present study examines the activity of Hungarian informational structures from the Kadar era at the objective level, that is, a concrete action carried out on Italian territory against a pontifical institution, which gained momentum starting from the mid-60s, by recruiting and integrating agents into the Hungarian Pontifical Institute operating in Rome. The analysis places special emphasis on the introduction of contemporary Hungarian intelligence methodology concepts.