The Constitution Protection Office ( Hungarian: "''Alkotmányvédelmi Hivatal''", "''AH''") is a Hungarian

internal security Internal security is the act of keeping peace within the borders of a sovereign state or other Self-governance, self-governing territories, generally by upholding the national law and defending against internal security threats. Responsibility fo ...

intelligence agency An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives. Means of informa ...

, formerly known as ''Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal'' (en. Office of National Security). Its primary responsibilities are:

counterintelligence Counterintelligence is an activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting activities to prevent espionage, sabotage, assassinations or o ...

, anticorruption,

economic security Economic security or financial security is the condition of having stable income or other resources to support a standard of living now and in the foreseeable future. It includes: * probable continued solvency * predictability of the future cash f ...

and related proactive measures. The ''AH'' also leads investigations against

organized crime Organized crime (or organised crime) is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally tho ...

and deals with (mainly internal) threats against society (such as

subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms. Sub ...

). AH is active since 2010.

General Directors

Dr. Bárdos Szabolcs

External links

internet page of the AH

References

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