Mlada fronta: Communist counter intelligence trained secret commando units in former West Germany

Czech daily Mlada fronta reports that declassified files have been found showing that Czechoslovak military counter intelligence trained secret commando units in the 1970s, including around 100 special agents who were active in what was then West Germany. The paper says that these agents were deployed in Germany to detain or kill key figures such as politicians, influential economists and army officers. They were also trained to occupy crucial facilities, including US nuclear missile silos, radio transmitters, radar bases and power plants. Mlada fronta adds that experts are not sure what happened to this network of German agents after the Velvet Revolution. The agents were an extremely confidential unit and there is no data on them in the central register of the communist secret police.