Archive of Czech Security Forces makes public former military counter-intelligence files

The Archive of Czech Security Forces has made public registration protocols of defunct military counter-intelligence dating back to Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime. The documents were made accessible on Friday at the Archive’s website. The database is said to contain more than 300 registration files with details on some 140,000 people. The head of the archives, Ladislav Bukovský, said that the reason the records were being made public was to achieve maximum transparency. He said that Communist counter-intelligence files could pertain to former agents or persons vetted by the former military counter-intelligence, abolished in 1990. The oldest of the files dates back to 1954 – the last to 1989, when the communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia.