CIA confirms: Hungary is a safe country
Published at: 07/04/2016 03:02 pm
Referring to Polish media reports suggesting that the CIA had warned against a potential terrorist attack planned to be committed in the Hungarian capital, the Hungarian Prime Minister’s chief security advisor said, that the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has no information on specific terrorist threats to Hungary.
György Bakondi said that the government of Hungary has recently contacted the CIA, but the Agency has not confirmed Polish media reports. The CIA has no information on specific attacks, he added. Some days earlier, Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported that in March the Americans had warned Poland that in Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw “there is a threat of parallel attacks being committed in mass events”.
Mr. Bakondi said that if there was indeed a specific threat, the United States would warn Hungary. He added that Budapest regularly receives information from overseas: Hungary actively participates in cooperation between international secret services. The chief security advisor stressed that the Government of Hungary evaluates carefully all information on terrorism, adding, that people must not “overreact” to it. Nevertheless, the deterioration in public security in Europe needs further attention, Mr. Bakondi added.