A recent appeal by more than 120 Croatian intellectuals, who proposed a renewal of trials held during communist and other totalitarian regimes in Croatia, said that the documents on the investigation and the trial of Mile Budak had never been made public or made available to researchers.
Three boxes contain Budak's personal files while the fourth contains files by the former State Security Service, including the indictment and interrogation records, the HDA officials said. The files, however, do not contain the court verdict, which is apparently stored in the Zagreb City Archive.
Defence files from Budak's trial before the Second Army Military Court after World War Two form part of the legacy of Ivo Politeo, the lawyer from Zagreb who represented Budak at the trial.
The HDA officials said that the documents on Mile Budak available at the State Archive had already been the subject of research by historians and Croatian literary theorists.