Posted on 08/03/2008 8:14:07 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Last week the Archive of the Czech Security Forces posted data on the internet compiled by former Czechoslovakia’s military counter-intelligence. The data lists some 140,000 names of people who were either monitored by the military counter-intelligence or were agents, and it hasn’t taken long for the files to stir controversy. Czech TV reported that five of the country’s MPs, including Social Democrat and former Olympic ski jumper Pavel Ploc, were among those listed. He and the other deputies reacted quickly, denying cooperation of any kind with the Communist intelligence service, saying they were now considering legal action in response.
The military counter-intelligence files posted last week by the Archive of the Czech Security Forces name 140,000 people, some of whom are likely to have been willing collaborators and agents, as well as others who were not. The material released was complied over 35 years - from 1954 to 1989 - years when army service for all young Czech men was mandatory. The country’s military counter-intelligence regularly monitored army conscripts, so it is plausible, database administrators have made clear, that many mentioned in the files released were monitored without their knowledge. As an athlete and member of the army-sponsored Dukla Liberec sports club, MP Pavel Ploc -who often travelled abroad to compete - says he and others were regularly questioned by military counter-intelligence. On Tuesday he told public broadcaster Czech TV that he was asked to collaborate but never agreed:
“We were unusual as members of Dukla because even though we were soldiers we were allowed to travel to the West, something other soldiers couldn’t. We travelled, so of course they questioned us and must have kept some kind of record somewhere.”
Other colleagues, including former Social Democrat Evžen Snítilý – the only MP named as an “agent” as opposed to the more ambiguous “confidant” – also maintain they never collaborated willingly with the Communist military counter-intelligence, and are now considering legal steps to clear their names. It is unclear how far they will have to go, or that they’ll be alone: still more names are likely to surface, the latest being a highly-placed Czech military official: Brigadier General Miroslav Bálint, Deputy Chief of Staff for the Czech Army, listed as a “confidant”.
Did the names "Clinton" or "Obama" come up?
And what about Fat Teddy?
This is exactly what we in the USA need to do, release all the House Unamerican, McCarthy Investigation, Venona transcripts and National Archives that expose the high level Communist infestation of the the US Federal Gov.
Most of this is public domain, the FBI files need to be re-released....a big file dump before Nov should wake a lot of Americans up.
Any idea of where they can be found?
I’d love to forward some of that stuff around...
The Czechs had a fold-up ultralight spy aircraft that they trucked around the US about 15 years ago. They’d fly it over our US military bases at night taking photographs. I wonder if anything turned up about that operation?
A lot of info on the FBI files within thes 2 books:
The Venona Secrets, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel...cast a spotlight on one of the most shadowy episodes in recent American history—a past when treason infected Washington and Soviet agents were shielded, either wittingly or unwittingly, by our very own government officials.Herbert Romerstein was head of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the United States Information Agency from 1983 to 1989. He had previously served as a professional staff member for several congressional committees, including the House Intelligence Committee and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Now retired, Romerstein continues to write and lecture on the subject of Soviet espionage.
Eric Breindel studied at Harvard College, the London School
Blacklisted by History-Stanton Evans
Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended.
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