Za mír a socialismus až do trpkého konce II.
For peace and socialism to the bitter end II:

Documents on the cooperation between the Czechoslovak and Soviet intelligence services, 1987–1989

Summary/Abstract: Among the written documents of Czechoslovakia’s Communist intelligence service that remained following shredding carried out in December 1989 are a number, dating from February 1988 and 1989, on the cooperation between the Central Directorate of the National Security Corps (I S-SNB) and the Central Directorate of the Committee for State Security (I HS-KGB) of the USSR on agency-operational work and the production of active or influence operations. The documents capture the cooperation between the two fraternal services in terms of political intelligence (drawing mainly on the Soviets’ intelligence sources), concrete departments of the counterintelligence abroad (26th department), defectors and ideo-diversion (31st department) and active and influence operations (36th department). Two other documents are records of the likely final meeting between Czechoslovak intelligence service officers at the HQ of the Soviet intelligence service in late November 1989, which, surprisingly, also in volved their commander, Lieut. Gen. Leonid Shebarshin. Though the final form of two documents created in the second half of November 1989 is relatively brief, and some passages are evidently not a full record of proceedings, they are important and unique documents that capture the changing positions of and relationship between the two intelligence services.

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