Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP) sees no reason why the so-called Tiitinen list should be withheld from publication, according to a report by tabloid Ilta-Sanomat.
The NCP's party leadership will propose backing an initiative calling for the publication of the documents at a congress this summer, the tabloid reported. The initiative has been put forward by the NCP's youth wing.
The Tiitinen list is a classified document which was handed over to the Finnish Security Police (Supo) by West Germany's Intelligence Service after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It is named after Seppo Tiitinen, who was the head of Supo at the time.
The list contains the names of 18 Finnish people who are suspected of being in contact with the Stasi, the former East Germany's security service, between 1969 and 1990.
Supo denied researcher Kimmo Elo access to the document in 2018 as its release could "endanger national security" as well as its ability to co-operate with partners abroad, the agency said at the time.
Orpo told IS that if the initiative passes at the NCP's congress, the publication of the list should be discussed with the party's three coalition partners — the Finns Party, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats.
