First Czech military intel chief Radovan Procházka receives posthumous National Security Council Award

Radovan Procházka, the first military intelligence chief in the history of the Czech Republic, has posthumously received the National Security Council Award. Procházka, who spent 13 years in a Communist jail and labour camps for being part of a military group that fed information to the West, died last month at the age of 93. For his resistance to Communism, he was awarded the Order of the White Lion from President Václav Havel in 1997.

Prime Minister and current National Security Council head Andrej Babiš also handed the award to the current director of military intelligence, Jan Beroun, during the ceremony at Prague’s Lichtenstein Palace on Wednesday. The Faculty of Law at Palacký University in OIomouc, as well as the editorial team of the magazine Obrana a strategie (Defence and strategy), received the award for extraordinary contributions in the area of security policy.