Daily Mail: Former BBC Czechoslovak section head was Cold War spy

The UK's Daily Mail newspaper has unearthed information from newly declassified archive files revealing that Terézia Javorská, the London-based director of the BBC World Service's Slovak section until 2005, was a Cold War spy for the notorious communist-era Czechoslovak StB or State Security Service. According to the files, she was recruited by an StB agent posted to London who met her at a cocktail party in the mid-1980s. The Daily Mail writes that security experts believe it to be the first known case of an agent from a foreign intelligence agency infiltrating the BBC since the start of the Cold War.

Author: Anna Fodor