Švejnar’s father signed collaboration with Czechoslovak secret police

Presidential candidate Jan Švejnar announced on Friday that his father has dealt with Czechoslovak secret police in the past. He allegedly signed a pledge in 1961 to cooperate with the Ministry of Interior while he was employed at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and he was to attend a U.N. scientific conference abroad. The envisaged cooperation was terminated a year later. Jan Švejnar has decided to publish his father’s file on his website in order to prevent someone from using the documents to discredit him.