About the Network

About us

The idea that initially guided the founders was to simplify procedures related to the possibility of conducting research and exchanging documents, but over time cooperation has taken on a more complex character.

International conference - Archives of the Security Apparatus of the People's Republic of Poland: Structures, Organization, Activities.

Poland, Warsaw, 11 June 2024

International conference - The Apparatus of Repression: The Executive Body in the Soviet System – History and Research Perspectives

Poland, Lublin, 6-7 June 2024

International Online Workshop on Digitization and the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Archives

On 5 December, an online workshop for members of the European Network of Official Authorities in Charge of the Secret Police Files took place, organized by the IPN Archive in cooperation with the Hungarian State Security Historical Archive (ÁBTL).

International Research Conference - “Archives and Remembrance: Contemporary Uses of the Archival Heritage of Former Communist Security Services” – Warsaw, 11 June 2025 [Live Transmission]

International Scientific Conference “Communist Parties in the Soviet Bloc in 1985–1989: Fall of the System”

Poland, Warsaw, 9–10 October 2024

Members and Associate members of the European Network

The network was formed in December 2008 as a cooperative platform connecting institutions holding the archival collections of the former communist state secret police forces. The organization is currently consisting of eight members and five associate members.

Organizational Structure

The European Network of Official Authorities in Charge of the Secret-Police Files was formed in December 2008 as a cooperation platform connecting the institutions holding the archival collections of the former communist state secret police forces

POLAND

Filip Musiał: The control exercised by Communist repression apparatus over the society – the case of the Polish People’s Republic

POLAND

Types of Files, Cards, Objects, etc.

POLAND

“Clandestine Surveillance – Documentation, Structures, Methods, and Activities” by Dr. Monika Komaniecka-Łyp

Presiding Organisation

The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS, Romania) is the presiding organization of the Network for the 2025 - 2026 term

The exhibition "...and files to be destroyed" (2010)