Czech Radio: former foreign minister listed among cooperatives of Communist military intelligence

Czech Radio reported on Monday that Senator Jiří Dienstbier was listed among the collaborators of the military intelligence service during the Communist regime. Mr Dienstbier, who was the first post-communist minister of foreign affairs and was a reporter for Radio Prague in the 1960s, has denied any deliberate cooperation with the former secret service and said the allegations were nonsensical. According to Czech Radio, the documents in question were shredded, and what remains indicates that the senator may have been used as a “cover address” for covert communication among secret agents. The material available does not however constitute evidence that Mr Dienstbier knowingly facilitated such communication.