First post-communist defence minister wants authorities to release his file

Former Czechoslovak Defence Minister, General Miroslav Vacek, says he will ask the Czech Republic's Chief-of-Staff Vlastimil Picek and Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova to release documents proving his secret collaboration with the communist military counter-intelligence. Speaking in a live debate on Czech Television on Sunday, General Vacek said he was proud of his past including his work for the military counter-intelligence which he later headed as Defence Minister. However, he denies having agreed to secret collaboration.

Earlier this week, the military intelligence revealed two ministers in the first post-communist cabinet, Miroslav Vacek and Richard Sacher, had collaborated with communist-era secret services. Both men's terms ended by the close of 1990.