Our Comrade in Havana - The establishment of Czechoslovak residency and co-operation with the Cuban Security Service
Our Comrade in Havana - The establishment of Czechoslovak residency and co-operation with the Cuban Security Service

Author(s): Pavel Žáček
Subject(s): Politics, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; Czechoslovak residency; 1959; Cuba; Havana; Cuban Security Service; USSR; KGB; Soviet satelites;
Summary/Abstract: In the second half of 1959, the policy of the Soviet Union and its satellites towards Cuba changed. An irreplaceable role in this process was played by the Soviet intelligence service, the 1st Chief Directorate of the KGB attached to the Council of Ministers of the USSR, headed by General Alexander Mikhailovich Sakharovsky , which also engaged the security services of Soviet satellites into the complicated foreign operation to obtain an important beachhead in the western hemisphere. However, the scope of Czechoslovak assistance in the area of security and the influence of the Czechoslovak State Security in Cuba have remained basically up to now on the edge of professional interest.

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