Guide to the Collections

  1. Study Institute of the Ministry of the Interior (Ministerstvo Vnitra – MV)
  2. Archival collections of administrative departments of the Ministry of the Interior (MV) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior (FMV)
  3. Archival collections of central executive departments of the Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of the Interior
  4. Archival collections of units of the Border Guard (Pohraniční stráž – PS) and Interior Guard (Vnitřní stráž – VS) Services
  5. Archival collections of the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (ZS GŠ)
  6. Archival collections of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Socialist Republic (MV ČSR)
  7. Archival collections of territorial SNB (Sbor národní bezpečnosti – National Security Corps) and StB (Státní bezpečnost – State Security Service) units
  8. Archival collections of territorial SNB and VB (Veřejná bezpečnost – Public Security Service) units
  9. Archival collections of territorial Military Counterintelligence units
  10. Prison system and forced labor camps
  11. Operative agenda
  12. Personnel files of servicemen and employees
  13. Schooling
  14. Other Collections

Classification scheme

  1. Study Institute of the Ministry of the Interior (Ministerstvo Vnitra – MV)
    1. Viktor Emanuel Voska (personal collection)
    2. Dr. Emanuel Moravec (personal collection)
    3. Public Edification Service
    4. Testimonies of Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) employees
    5. Curatorium for the upbringing of youth in Bohemia and Moravia
    6. Collection of textual records from SS units on the territory of the Protectorate
    7. German courts in the Protectorate
    8. Miscellaneous security services
    9. German courts in the Reich
    10. Country Security Division, Prague
    11. Investigation commission for the national and people’s court at the Ministry of the Interior
    12. Main Military Counterintelligence Directorate
    13. Miscellaneous security files after the year 1945
    14. State Security Service Central Office
    15. Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Czechoslovakia
    16. Gestapo Hradec Králové and Pardubice
    17. State Security Service Headquarters
    18. Country Security Division II
    19. “Redakce” Berlin (StB agent network working out of Berlin under the cover name “Redakce,” or “Editorial Office,” in English)
    20. Main Press Monitoring Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior
    21. Sorted files from the Ministry of the Interior secretariat
    22. Monitors (foreign broadcasts, media summaries)
    23. Selection (Kabinet) of StB materials
    24. Prosecution of Nazi war criminals
    25. Jewish organizations
    26. Miscellaneous security services in Slovakia after 1945
    27. Operation R – Property claims of Austrian citizens against the Czech Socialist Republic (ČSR)
    28. Collection of miscellaneous textual records
    29. Section of Political Intelligence of the Ministry of the Interior
    30. Intelligence maps executed by the MV Study Institute

     

  2. Archival collections of administrative departments of the Ministry of the Interior (MV) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior (FMV)
    1. Study Institute of the Ministry of the Interior
    2. Secretariat of the Ministry of the Interior
    3. Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of the Interior Col. Jindřich Kotál
    4. Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of the Interior Col. Jaroslav Klíma
    5. Secretariat of the First Deputy Minister of the Interior Col. Jan Záruba
    6. Secretariat of Cabinet Secretary within the Ministry of the Interior of the ČSSR Col. JUDr. Ján Majer
    7. Secretariat of the Deputy Federal Minister of the Interior Col. JUDr. František Vašek
    8. Secretariat of the Deputy Federal Ministers of the Interior for Armed Forces Major General Ludvík Hlavaček and Col. Karel Peprný
    9. Secretariat of the Deputy Federal Minister of the Interior Col. JUDr. Jaroslav Vosecký
    10. Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of the Interior Col. Štefan Demjan
    11. Secretariat of the Deputy Federal Ministers of the Interior Major General Ján Pješčak and Major General Pavol Vaňa
    12. Secretariat of the First Deputy Federal Ministers of the Interior Major General Ján Hanuljak, Major General JUDr. Ján Kováč and Lieutenant General Ing. Alojz Lorenc
    13. Organizational and Internal Affairs Directorate of the FMV
    14. Minister of the Interior‘s Supervisory Unit
    15. Section for International Relations
    16. Main SNB Headquarters
    17. Secretariat of the Commission for the Protection of State Secrets
    18. Personnel Directorate
    19. Statistical-Records Section
    20. Security services of the Ministry of the Interior

     

  3. Archival collections of central executive departments of the Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of the Interior
    1. Main Intelligence Service Directorate (Directorate I)
    2. Counterintelligence Directorate (Directorate II)
    3. Military Counterintelligence Directorate (Directorate III)
    4. Surveillance Directorate (Directorate IV)
    5. Intelligence Technology Directorate (Directorate VI)
    6. Counterintelligence Directorate for the Struggle against the Internal Adversary (Directorate X)
    7. Counterintelligence Directorate for the Protection of the Economy (Directorate XI)
    8. Counterintelligence Directorate for the Struggle against Exceptional and Unusual Forms of Criminal Activity (Directorate XIV)
    9. StB Investigations Directorate
    10. Intelligence Section of the Federal Intelligence Services Directorate
    11. Physical Education and Professional Sports Directorate of the Federal Ministry of the Interior

     

  4. Archival collections of units of the Border Guard (PS) and Interior Guard (VS) Services
    1. 3rd brigade of the Karlovy Vary Border Guard Service
    2. 5th brigade of the Cheb Border Guard Service
    3. 10th brigade of the Volary Border Guard Service
    4. Military Council of the Main Directorate of the Border Guard Service, Prague
    5. Hitherto unprocessed collections

     

  5. Archival collections of the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (ZS GŠ)
     
  6. Archival collections of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Socialist Republic (MV ČSR)
    1. Main Public Security Service (Veřejná bezpečnost – VB) Directorate
    2. Main VB ČSR Headquarters (Part I)
    3. Main VB ČSR Headquarters (Part II)
    4. Organizational and Internal Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior of the ČSR
    5. MV ČSR Collegium
    6. MV ČSR Leadership
    7. VB MV ČSR Investigations Directorate
    8. Secretariat of the MV ČSR General Inspector
    9. Section for International Relations of the MV ČSR

     

  7. Archival collections of territorial SNB (Sbor národní bezpečnosti – National Security Corps) and StB (Státní bezpečnost – State Security Service) units
    1. SNB Country Headquarters, Prague
    2. SNB Country Headquarters, Brno
    3. Prague and the Central Bohemian Region StB Directorate (Part I)
    4. Prague and the Central Bohemian Region StB Directorate (Part II)
    5. České Budějovice StB Directorate (Part I)
    6. České Budějovice StB Directorate (Part II)
    7. Plzeň StB Directorate (Part I)
    8. Plzeň StB Directorate (Part II)
    9. Ústí nad Labem StB Directorate (Part I)
    10. Ústí nad Labem StB Directorate (Part II)
    11. Hradec Králové StB Directorate (Part I)
    12. Hradec Králové StB Directorate (Part II)
    13. Brno StB Directorate (Part I)
    14. Ostrava StB Directorate (Part I)
    15. Ostrava StB Directorate (Part II)
    16. Ostrava StB Directorate (Part III)

     

  8. Archival collections of territorial SNB and VB (Veřejná bezpečnost – Public Security Service) units
    1. Central Bohemian Region SNB Regional Directorate
    2. Capital City of Prague SNB Directorate
    3. České Budějovice Regional SNB Directorate
    4. Plzeň Regional SNB Directorate
    5. Ústí nad Labem Regional SNB Directorate
    6. Hradec Králové Regional SNB Directorate
    7. Brno Regional SNB Directorate
    8. Ostrava Regional SNB Directorate

     

  9. Archival collections of territorial Military Counterintelligence units

     

  10. Prison system and forced labor camps
    1. Detention, internment, work camps and forced labor camps
    2. Prison Guard Directorate
    3. Materials assumed from the Ministry of Justice (Odbor vnitřní ochrany – OVO, literally Section of Internal Protection, or the equivalent of a prison intelligence agent network)

     

  11. Operative agenda
    1. Main Intelligence Service Directorate operative agenda
    2. Operative agenda stored at the Central Office of the Ministry of the Interior (MV Statistical-Records Section)
    3. Special collections
    4. MV Brno Regional Directorate operative agenda
    5. MV České Budějovice Regional Directorate operative agenda
    6. MV Hradec Králové Regional Directorate operative agenda
    7. MV Karlovy Vary Regional Directorate operative agenda
    8. MV Liberec Regional Directorate operative agenda
    9. MV Olomouc Regional Directorate operative agenda
    10. MV Ostrava Regional Directorate operative agenda
    11. MV Plzeň Regional Directorate operative agenda
    12. MV Ústí nad Labem Regional Directorate operative agenda
    13. Main Military Counterintelligence Directorate operative agenda
    14. Operative agenda of the Intelligence Service of the General Staff
    15. Operative agenda of the Correctional Education Corps Directorate's Section of Internal Protection (Odbor vnitřní ochrany - OVO)

     

  12. Personnel files of servicemen and employees
    1. Personnel files from the Ministry of the Interior
    2. Personnel files from the Ministry of Defense
    3. Personnel files from the Ministry of Justice – OVO (Odbor vnitřní ochrany – OVO, literally Section of Internal Protection, or the equivalent of a prison intelligence agent network)

     

  13. Schooling
    1. SNB University
    2. Other SNB and PS educational institutions

     

  14. Other Collections
    1. Materials assumed from the Police Museum of the Czech Republic
    2. RV Collection - Orders, bulletins, manuals