Public Security Service (Veřejná bezpečnost – VB) Main Directorate

The Main Public Security Service Directorate (HS VB) emerged in 1952 and operated until the end of the year 1968. This collection also includes materials from its predecessors, the Main SNB Headquarters (1945-1949), created from the General Headquarters of the uniformed police, and the Public Security Service Headquarters, in existence from 1949-1952. Documents from the years 1945-1969 were inventoried in 1977. Also included here are archive materials from the Deputy Ministers of the Interior for Public Security, who were simultaneously chiefs of the Main Public Security Service Directorate. The inventory was supplemented with appendices in 1978.

Title Record Group Time Range Inventory Location Length
Col. Jan Záruba – deputy MoI CSSR H 1-1 1967 – 1968 Preliminary inventory for Record Group H 1
Preliminary inventory for Record Group H 1 (Part II)		 department 3 45,3 running meters
Col. Dr. Jindřich Thon – deputy MoI CČSSR H 1-2 1967 – 1968
Inspectorate of the Main Public Security Service´s Chief H 1-3 1967 – 1968
Internal Affairs Department of the Public Security Service [VB] Main Directorate H 1-4 1946 – 1969
Supervisory Unit of the Public Security Service [VB] Main Directorate H 1-5 1950 – 1969
Political Department of the Public Security Service [VB] Main Directorat H 1-6 1953 – 1965
Railways Public Security Service Directorate H 1-7 1952 – 1963
School Department of the Public Service Main Directorate H 1-8 1949 – 1955
Department for the Fight Against Criminal Acts H 1-9 1953 – 1963
Department for the Fight Against Theft and Speculation H 1-10 1951 – 1963
External and Traffic Service H 1-11 1948 – 1969
Operative-Search and Permission Department H 1-12 1945 – 1963
Department for Foreign Affairs and Citizen ID Card H 1-13 1955 – 1962
Administrative Section of the Public Security Service Main Directorate H 1-14 1962 – 1964
Institute of Criminalistics H 1-15 1945 – 1968
Economic Department of the Public Security Service Main Directorate H 1-16 1952 – 1956
Department for Statistics and Registration of the Public Security Service Main Directorate H 1-17 1951 – 1969
Personnel and Organizational Department of the Public Security Service Main Directorate H 1-18 1966 – 1968