Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes says Kundera document is authentic

The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has ruled out that the document stating that Czech born writer Milan Kundera had reported an agent from the West to the communist authorities in 1950 could be fake. The institute’s spokesman Jiří Reichl said the document was obviously authentic and bore the signature of Jaroslav Rosický, a former member of the communist police who worked in the respective department at the time. The institute has however conceded that the evidence against Kundera is not absolute. That would require finding all survivors which the institute has been unable to do. Mr. Kundera, who lives in France, spoke to the media for the first time in 25 years to defend himself, telling the CTK news agency the allegations were fabricated lies intended to destroy his reputation.