Přidáno: March 1, 2019
The records of the former State Police tell us that in 1949, two assassination attempts occurred in connection with Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky’s travels around Eastern Bohemia. The first came in Nachod on 10 January 1949. Early in the…
Přidáno: February 1, 2019
The Security Services Archive administers mostly archival materials from the years 1938–1989; nonetheless, it is sometimes possible to find older materials, too. Among the most numerous examples of older archival materials are the event logbooks of the gendarmerie in…
Přidáno: January 1, 2019
One of the tasks of the Czechoslovak Foreign Intelligence was also to spread “active” or “passive” disinformation, which was called a “active measure” according to the terminology in use then. The forged document we have chosen to present this…
Přidáno: December 1, 2018
As evidence of the time served with the Border Patrol units, we can use not only resources of an operative nature but also resources pertaining to the everyday activities of the political apparatus of the border patrol brigades. The…
Přidáno: November 1, 2018
34 years ago, in November 1984, a nun from India, Albanian by origin, the founder and superior of the Missionaries of Charity and laureate of the Nobel prize, Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known more as Mother Teresa, visited Czechoslovakia for…
Přidáno: October 3, 2018
On 16 October 1968 the Czechoslovak Prime Minister Oldrich Cernik and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Alexei Kosygin signed a treaty between the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the government of…
Přidáno: September 3, 2018
The Czech nation is well known for coping with bad news and events with a unique sense of folk humour. It wasn’t any different after the occupation in 1968, when people didn’t hesitate to write mocking slogans on the…
Přidáno: August 1, 2018
Reportedly approximately 300 people, mostly British trade union members, gathered on Sunday 19th August 1979 in Hyde Park, London, to support the normalisation regime in Czechoslovakia. The demonstration was organized by The New Communist Party of Britain (NCP) on…
Přidáno: July 2, 2018
The following sounds like a description from the world-wide game “geocaching” rather than a quotation from the Communist State Security archive materials: “An inland drop box is usually made in the roots of trees, bases of remote sacral monuments,…
Přidáno: June 1, 2018
On 20 September 1945 a large deputation of local politicians, officials, army officers, media and photographers came to the internment camp in Kolín. The visit was organised by the camp administrator Bedřich Kárník. Its purpose was to disprove the…
