“Tidy up here – I’ll lock up later” - The dismantling of Surveillance Directorate monitoring stations 1989–1990
“Tidy up here – I’ll lock up later” - The dismantling of Surveillance Directorate monitoring stations 1989–1990

Author(s): Prokop Tomek
Subject(s): Security and defense, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; state security; societal control; collaborators; physical surveillance; Surveillance Directorate; dismantling;
Summary/Abstract: Over many years the State Security (Státní bezpečnost, StB) built up a system of societal control entirely according to its own wishes and requirements. Its covert network of secret collaborators is unsurprisingly best known. However, a system of actual physical surveillance was also in place. Partial documentation on some of the posts used for that purpose has been preserved in the archival collection of the StB’s Surveillance Directorate. It chiefly contains organisational, technical and economic information. But linking it to particular cases of operative work is complicated.

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