Radio Free Europe through the eyes of the State Security Service - Photographs in the dossiers on subjects of interest kept by the Communist intelligence
Radio Free Europe through the eyes of the State Security Service - Photographs in the dossiers on subjects of interest kept by the Communist intelligence

Author(s): Ivana Koutská , Pavel Žáček
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Security and defense, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Czechoslovakia; communist regime; RFP; radio; State Security Service; photographs; documents; intelligence;
Summary/Abstract: The State Security Service officers – including the main directorate of the intelligence – stored the acquired or created operative materials in different kinds of dossiers and files, based on their focus and importance. Materials on institutions of interest in terms of state security or intelligence, which were the subject of the operative interest of the intelligence (e.g., central authorities in countries of interest, headquarters and offices of enemy intelligence agencies, political parties, exile organizations, ideological diversion centres, etc.) were stored in what was called “dossiers on subjects of interest”. These dossiers contained documents and materials related to the “elaboration” of the institution in question, such as reports on the bases of persons of interest, including photographs. Within their individual parts, i.e. thematic sub-files and sub-files of persons being “elaborated” (types), later persons of interest (agent types and enemy individuals), materials acquired via agents or another manner were gradually accumulated.

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