Deputies listed as informants in communist-era counter-intelligence files

A number of deputies are listed as informants in the database of the former military counter-intelligence dating back to Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime, Czech Television reported on Monday. The deputies named were Juraj Raninec, Walter Bartoš and Tomáš Hasil of the Civic Democrats and Pavel Ploc of the Social Democrats. The documents were posted on the website of the Archive of Czech Security Forces on Friday. All of them say they never agreed to collaborate with the military counter-intelligence. According to database’s administrators, not all the people listed were consciously collaborating with the secret service.