Biologist Katalin Karikó, the vice president of BioNTech, which developed the vaccine against the coronavirus, was intimidated as a young researcher in 1978, which is why she signed the organizing documents of the communist secret service in 1978. Magyar Hang followed up on the stigmatizing information spreading on the Internet.

"I didn't give a written report, I didn't harm anyone," Katalin Karikó emphasized to the newspaper. As he put it, he says the following about the news that intends to stigmatize him.

"It is a fact that in 1978, when I started working as a scientific assistant, I was approached, found, and forced to choose. Referring to my father's participation in the 1956 revolution and his "criminal" past, I was threatened with the impossibility of my professional work. I knew that my father was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence in 1957, he was fired from his job, and he did not get a job for 4 years. I knew how that system works, I was afraid, that's why I signed the recruitment document".

Karikó emphasized: "In the following years, I did not give any written report, I did not harm anyone. I was forced to leave in order to continue my scientific activities and research." He has continued his research work and activities for the past 36 years in order to heal people. "Never again, no one could break me, remove me from my goals," he said, adding that he considered the matter closed with this statement.

Magyar Hang reminds us: recently, an excerpt from László Bálint's 2017 book entitled "The actors of the network registry" has started to spread on social media. According to the Szeged local history researcher, Kariko was organized in 1978, at the age of 23. Its organizer and contact person was László Salgó, later national police chief, and at that time he was still the lieutenant of the Csongrád County Police Headquarters. In the article listing the data of the so-called box 6, it was stated that Kariko was employed by the III/II group chief of the state security, with a secret agent rating, on a "patriotic basis". His code name was "Zsolt Lengyel" and his occupation was "anti-espionage". Quoting from another document, the book mentions that he was "rested" from 1985. According to Katalin Karikó's biography, she moved to the United States this year, the newspaper reports.

Telex writes about: Katalin Karikó's father, János Karikó, was a member of the Revolutionary Council in Kisújszállás in 1956. The butcher, known as an outspoken man, was fired in '57 due to "excitement" due to his role during the revolution, and he did not get a job for four years.

Source: mandiner.hu

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