Oldřich Burda – náčelník vojenské rozvědky v letech 1960–1968
Oldřich Burda – head of military counterintelligence in the years 1960–1968

Summary/Abstract: Portrait of someone who was head of military counterintelligence. It outlines his origins and education, the evolution of his ambitions, his career path to the top of his profession, and his fall from grace after the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The article clearly shows what kind of people the communists chose, and indeed needed, for similar positions.

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