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Inventory of the Jiri Setina Collection

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Descriptive Summary Title: Jiri Setina Collection Dates: 1945-1996 Collection number: 94021 Collector: Setina, Jiri, collector. Collection Size: 39 manuscript boxes(15.6 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 Abstract: Photocopies of selected minutes, reports, memoranda, and letters, of the central committee of the Czechoslovak and the Czechoslovak ministry of the interior, relating to political persecutions in , trials and imprisonment for political offenses, forced labor camps, confiscation of church property, and secret police activities. Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives Languages: Languages represented in the collection: Czech Access The collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Jiri Setina Collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1994. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Alternative Forms of Material Available Originals in: Archiv Komunisticke strany *Ceskoslovenska, , and Archiv Ministerstva vnitra, Prague. Scope and Content of Collection Photocopies of selected minutes, reports, memoranda, and letters, of the central committee of the Czechoslovak communist party and the Czechoslovak ministry of the interior, relating to political persecutions in Czechoslovakia, trials and imprisonment for political offenses, forced labor camps, confiscation of church property, and secret police activities Indexing Terms

Inventory of the Jiri Setina 94021 2 Collection The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Subjects Political prisoners--Czechoslovakia. Forced labor--Czechoslovakia. Secret service--Czechoslovakia. Civil rights--Czechoslovakia. Political crimes and offenses--Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia--Religion. Czechoslovakia. Ministerstvo vnitra. Komunistická strana *Ceskoslovenska. Úst*redni výbor.

Box/Folder: 1 : 1 Minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the case of churches, dignitaries, priests, religion teachers, former theology students, nuns and monks, and the group Russicum; memorandum of a congregation of the Catholic bishops to the president of the ; reports of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Regional Committee for Church Affairs relating to the case of Czech and Slovak nuns, the ten accused clerics, the surveillance of church services in Prague in 1949, the removal of archbishop , and the working plan of 1949 Box/Folder: 1 : 2 List of employees transferred from the Department of National Defense to the regional committees of the National Institute for Church Affairs; proposal of the Central Action Committee of the National Front for the reorganization of the group Junák; reports relating to the cases of the group Russicum, activities of the Christian-Democratic Party deputy František Kaďůrek, the lawsuit against bishop Stěpán Trochta and his punishment, the punishment of priests, and the purge of churches in 1950; statute of the pioneer division of the group Junák Box/Folder: 1 : 3 List of prisoners in the forced labor camp Mírov; report on removal of residents and unreliable individuals from the restricted border zone; minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Scope and Content Note Includes the speech of Rudolf Slanský about the burial of Edvard Beneš in September 1948

Box/Folder: 1 : 4 Report on the status of the Czechoslovak security system and trial and imprisonment for political offenses Box/Folder: 1 : 5 Written agreement between the Central Customs Office and the 4th sector of the Corps of National Security on the cooperation in non-tradable imports and exports; written request from the Italian Communist Party for financial help to organize a courier service between Warsaw, Budapest, and Bucharest Box/Folder: 1 : 6 Minutes of meetings of the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, relating to the origin of The 2000 Words Declaration, its authors and organizers, the proposal on the observation of illegal groups and their activities, and the internal political situation in August 1989; plans, letters and notes about the situation of the National Security Department; situation report on employees, the Department of Education, forced labor camps, the People's Militia, rifles, and the organization of the Corps of National Security; complaint against employees of the Company Baťa; working guide for the verification of citizens and purge of the republic of enemies; note of the Security Commission consultant; report on Czechoslovak refugees, the detention of the West German secret service agent Libuše Hrubá (Soňa), and on the investigation methods of Milan Moučka; proposals of Alexej Cepička to fill positions on the regional and provincial Security Commission and to reduce Soviet consultants in the Department of Interior; second part of the minutes of meeting of the Soviet Central Committee of the Communist Party relating to the Soviet-Yugoslav treatment

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Box/Folder: 1 : 7 Reports on death penalty trials, the Czech agent Stefan Kolman, who was shot to death by Oldřich Kvapil, criminal methods of the National Security Department in 1948 and 1949, the elimination of an illegal agrarian organization, executions of Miloslav Choc and Slavoj Sádek, trials and imprisonment for political offenses, and the Czechoslovak Counter-Intelligence Service; complaint against Jaromir Kopecký Box/Folder: 2 : 1 Reports on the escaped prisoner Jan Hvasta hiding in the American embassy, the liquidation of the group Odborník, and trials and imprisonment for political offenses Box/Folder: 2 : 2 Reports on the detention of demonstrators on 1962 May 1, purges in central authorities, the status of the National Security Department in 1969, foreign broadcasting jamming, the events of 1988 December 9–11, and security during celebrations in church sv. Víta in Prague in 1988; minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; directives of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Box/Folder: 2 : 3 Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses and the removal of unreliable individuals from Prague (B operation) Box/Folder: 2 : 4 Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses, the removal of residents and unreliable individuals from the restricted border zone, and the censoring of letters and telegrams from and to capitalist countries; proposal on the dissolution and prohibition of Zionist organizations in Czechoslovakia and the nomination of a head prosecutor in the Rudolf Slanský trial Box/Folder: 2 : 5 Letter from the Department of Foreign Affairs to the American embassy relating to the kidnapping of Czechoslovak agents in West Germany; proposal of the Department of Interior on confiscated houses released to Germans with Czechoslovak citizenship; reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses Box/Folder: 2 : 6 Reports of the Consulting Committee of the National Security Department on the verification of citizens (T-43 operation) and the trial for Věkoslav Loutský and Miroslav Pich-Tůma; letter from Karel Košťál to Antonín Novotný about his party activities; list of employees of the Regional Security Committee; directives of the Department of National Security, Department of Interior, and the Department of Justice on the situation of families of convicted kulaks Box/Folder: 2 : 7 Reports on the conference of deputies of the Committee for Church Affairs with Soviet ministries, the burials of bishop Karel Skoupý, bishop Robert Pobožný, and bishop Josef Hlouch, the confiscated American religious movie Youth in Trouble, religious ceremonies for Virgin Marie Svatohorská, the confiscation of Gestapo documents from Bohumil Siebert, and the reorganization plan of the National Security Department; list of individuals killed while attempting to cross the border in the years 1948-1956 Box/Folder: 2 : 8 Reports on political trials for Antonín Prchal and Karel Košťál and on activities of Soviet consultants; statement of Dagmar Marešová on the use of violence during interrogations; letter from Karel Košťál to Antonín Novotný; appeal to join the Czechoslovak Secret Service; correspondence between , Filipov, and Box/Folder: 2 : 9 List of employees of the 4th sector of the Department of Interior; statements of Department of Interior employees relating to the trials of Rudolf Slanský, Marie Svermová, and Otto Sling Box/Folder: 3 : 1 Record of an interview with Ladislav Kopřiva in 1963; statements of Department of National Security employees on the use of violence during interrogations of prisoners and on Ladislav Kopřiva; reports on trials for political offenses Box/Folder: 3 : 2 Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses and the displacement of German citizens; proposal on the observation of employees of the Department of National Security Box/Folder: 3 : 3 Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses, the removal of the statue of T. G. Masaryk in Prostějově, and the trial for French and French-American spies Box/Folder: 4 : 1 List of functionaries of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to contacts with socialist countries; list of honored with medals

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Box/Folder: 4 : 2 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; minutes of meetings on activities of the Corps of National Security, the border guards, and the troops under the Department of Interior in 1986 and 1990 Box/Folder: 4 : 3 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; honored with medals; proposal on dispatching a delegation of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party to Bulgaria; decision on crime reduction; report on border protection policy in 1987; proposal on dispatching employees of the National Security Department, soldiers, and fire fighters to Russian universities, and on activities of the Corps of National Security, the border guards, and the troops under the Department of Interior in 1986-1990 Box/Folder: 4 : 4 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; proposal on dispatching a delegation of the Department of Interior to Cuba, Poland, and Hungary; minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to contacts with socialist countries; list of Department of Interior employees honored with medals Box/Folder: 4 : 5 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; proposal to dispatch a delegation of the Department of Interior to Poland, Bulgaria, and the ; plan for meetings of leading functionaries of the Department of Interior Box/Folder: 4 : 6 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; plan for meetings of leading functionaries of the Department of Interior; list of Department of Interior employees honored with medals; minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the dispatching of employees of the National Security Department, soldiers, and fire fighters to Russian universities Box/Folder: 5 : 1 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; proposal on a visit of a delegation of the Department of Interior to Yugoslavia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, the Soviet Union, Poland, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and the organization of the national day of the Corps of National Security in 1981; plan for foreign meetings of leading functionaries of the Department of Interior; list of employees of the Corps of National Security honored with medals Box/Folder: 5 : 2 List and personnel files of Czech and Slovak students in Russian academies; plan for foreign meetings of leading functionaries of the Department of Interior; personnel files of the Department of Interior; minutes of meetings relating to the dispatching of employees of the National Security Department, soldiers, and fire fighters to Russian universities; proposal on a visit of a delegation of the Department of Interior to Yemen, Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, and the Soviet Union Box/Folder: 5 : 3 Proposal on a visit of a delegation of the Department of Interior to Vietnam, Laos, Poland, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau; personnel files of the Department of Interior; plan for foreign meetings of leading functionaries of the Department of Interior; report on the political and moral position of employees of the Corps of National Security, border guards, and soldiers of the troops under the Department of Interior; list of employees of the Department of Interior honored with medals Box/Folder: 5 : 4 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; proposals on the organization of the national day of the Corps of National Security in 1981, and a visit of a delegation of the Department of Interior to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia; list of employees of the Corps of National Security, border guards, and soldiers honored with medals; plan for foreign meetings of leading functionaries of the Department of Interior Box/Folder: 6 : 1 Reports on the secret agent Stephan Kollmann, shot to death by the Czech general Oldřich Kvapil, including testimonies, newspaper clippings, list of individuals with nicknames, and documentation about the frontier book of the 16th company frontier guard Box/Folder: 6 : 2 Map with numbers of prisons and forced labor camps in Czechoslovakia in 1952; reports on three dead refugees, the trial of the former captain of the Corps of National Security Miroslav Pich-Tůma (nickname Tomáš), and the Masna operation, including testimonies Box/Folder: 6 : 3 Report on the death of cleric Josef Toufar and Ladislav Zelenka; testimonies on interrogation methods Personnel files of the Department of Interior Box/Folder: 6 : 4 1968-1978 Box/Folder: 6 : 5 1980 Box/Folder: 6 : 6 1981-1982

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Box/Folder: 7 : 1 1983-1984 Box/Folder: 7 : 2 Report of the Superior Military Court on the trial of Osvald Závodský, Ivo Milen, Oskar Valeš, Vladimir Smolka, Bedřich Pokorný, Miroslav Pich-Tůma, and Karel Cerný Box/Folder: 7 : 3 List of prisoners, including their date and place of birth, address, time and reason for imprisonment, behavior, state of health, etc. Box/Folder: 7 : 4 Report on trials and imprisonment for political offenses and the transfer of officers to the forced labor camp Mírov; proposal on the dissolution and prohibition of Zionist organizations; minutes of meetings of the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia; list of convicted functionaries of Czech and Slovak political parties; law relating to forced labor camps; working program for the verification of citizens and purge of enemies from the republic (T-43 operation) Box/Folder: 7 : 5 Proposals on the surveillance of employees of the Corps of National Security and the purge of the children of kulaks from agricultural schools; report on administrative actions against kulaks; directive of the Department of National Security, Department of Interior, and Department of Justice on the situation of families of convicted kulaks; directives for the transfer of the families of convicted kulaks Box/Folder: 7 : 6 Private archive of Karel Klos, minister of justice; statute of the pioneer division of the group Junák Box/Folder: 7 : 7 Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses and the control of public and private storage depots in the country; proposals on the amnesty of Vilém Stanovský and new forced labor camps regulations Box/Folder: 8 : 1 List of individuals involved in the Rudolf Slánský trial; reports on the torture of four prisoners, trials and imprisonment for political offenses, security in the Prague region, the trial of Antonín Hašek, and the Koloďeje operation; personnel files of party members; proposal to fill positions on the regional and provincial security commission; interview with Ladislav Kopřiva; minutes of meetings of the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the National Security Department; letter of Antonín Novotný about Ladislav Kopřiva, Jaroslav Hora, and circumstances in the headquarters of the National Security Department Box/Folder: 8 : 2 Reports on activities of the 1st sector between 1949 and 1954, the 2nd sector (including a list of employees who tortured people during interrogations between 1948 and 1954), sector 2a, the 3rd sector, and the BA (a 4th sector of the Department of Interior), security in the Prešov region, and trials and imprisonment for political offenses; minutes of meetings of the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the Department of National Security; directive of the Department of National Security, Department of Interior and Department of Justice on the situation of families of convicted kulaks; proposals on the purge of the children of kulaks from agricultural schools, the creation of a Central Committee of the Slovak Communist Party Department for Defense, Security, and Justice, the reorganization of the protection of government and party members, and of the minister of national security on the cooperation between party and security organs; reports on Josefa Slánská, Eliška Frejková, Jiřina Franková, Ludmila Clementisová, Jožka Reicinová, Marie Svabová, Lise Ricol Londonová, Karla Hajduová, Eliška Loeblová, Hedvika Margoliusová, Marie Fischlová, Marian Slingová, Lisa Simonová, Bedřich Adler, Anna Traute Slánská, Lisa Hašková, Jarmila Kryslová, Robert Alt Bartek, Antonín Patejdl, Vilém Kún, Ludmila Neufusová, and Jiřina Kopoldová; final reports on the cases of Richard Slánský, Gejza and Charlotta Pavlík, Alice Kohn (Glasner), Oskar Kosta, Karel Markus, Rudolf Egon Feigl, Dora Klein, Vlasta Veselý, Goldstuecker, Antonín Kavan, Dufek, Vojta Jančík, Eduard Outrata, Josef Mirovský, and Mordechai Oren; activity report of the Office for Press Management; announcement of the Corps of National Security in 1952 Box/Folder: 9 : 1 Report on trials for political offenses; written request of Karel Mazanec for rehabilitation

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Box/Folder: 9 : 2 Lawsuit of the attorney general of the Czech Republic Jiří Setina against the former agent Pavel Minařík, and lawsuit relating to the complaint of Jan Antonín Baťa; personnel files of the Department of Interior; report on Ivan Fiala and the trial of Jan Antonín Baťa; secret report on Baron František Lobkowicz Box/Folder: 9 : 3 Statements of Karel Sváb and Otmar Kašina relating to the Slánský trial, of Bohumil Klícha relating to the Department of Agriculture Commission, of Jaroslav Hora relating to activities of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and of Heda Synková relating to her activity in the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; reports of commander Antonín Kavan on the 4th sector of the Department of Interior, the agent Petra Buzková (Pavla), and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party about the rehabilitation of prisoners; minutes of meetings of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to employees of the Department of National Security; application of Ivan Kočárník for membership in the Czechoslovak Communist Party Box/Folder: 9 : 4 Written request of Hans Heinrich Thun von Hohenstein for asylum in the Czechoslovak Republic; reports of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on the transfer of Germans, activities of scientific and technological intelligence in 1957, the prohibition of foreign broadcasting, the arrest of thirty-six American agents, the detention of the West German secret service agent Libuše Hrubá (Soňa), and activities of West German intelligence and counter-intelligence organs; proposal of the Department of Interior on confiscated houses released to Germans with Czechoslovak citizenship; decision of the government for special help for Afghanistan in 1986–1990; record about an interview with Hana Nehamerová relating to the Pley operation; working plan of the Department of Interior against emigration Box/Folder: 9 : 5 Report on Reinhard von Gehlen; record about an interview of deputy Kudrny with Jindřich Veselý; minutes of the meeting of the Presidium and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the situation of state security; directives of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and the use of prisoners in factory production Box/Folder: 9 : 6 Reports on the removal of residents and unreliable individuals from the restricted border zone, trials and imprisonment for political offenses, the statement of Otmar Kašina, and the removal of the statue of T. G. Masaryk in Prostějově; record of an interview with Václav Aleš; letter of Václav Nosek Box/Folder: 10 : 1 List of functionaries of the central organs of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1945-1989 Box/Folder: 10 : 2 Reports on the investigation of illegal departures of trains abroad, the investigation of railway routes to foreign countries, and the interrogation of Věra Máchová; personnel files of the Department of Interior; statistics about Czechoslovak refugees; minutes of meetings of the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the use of prisoners in manufacturing Box/Folder: 10 : 3 Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses, including the Slánský trial, activities of justice organs during the period of political processes, and the statement of Dagmar Marešová on the use of violence during interrogations; proposal of Alexej Cepička to fill positions on the regional and provincial security commission Box/Folder: 10 : 4 Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses, the statement of Ladislav Niewald about his activity in the Department of Interior, the Koloďeje operation, the transfer of Germans, and the verification of citizens and purge of enemies from the republic (T-43 operation); letter of Antonín Novotný about Ladislav Kopřiva, Jaroslav Hora, and the situation in the National Security Department; record of an interview with Ladislav Kopřiva in 1963 Box/Folder: 10 : 5 Interview with Vladimír Kohoutek about activities of Soviet consultants; correspondence between Klement Gottwald, Filipov, and Joseph Stalin; report on the confiscation of Gestapo documents from Bohumil Siebert Box/Folder: 10 : Reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses 6-8 Box/Folder: 11 : 1 Reports and interviews of Department of Interior employees relating to their activities

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Personnel files (minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party) Box/Folder: 11 : 2 1985 Box/Folder: 11 : 3 1986-1987 Box/Folder: 11 : 4 1988-1989 Box/Folder: 12 Minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the dispatching of members of the Corps of National Security and soldiers to colleges in the Soviet Union Box/Folder: 12 : 1 1952–1954, 1963, 1965-1966 Box/Folder: 12 : 2 1972–1975 Box/Folder: 12 : 3 1976-1980 Box/Folder: 12 : 4 1981-1988 Box/Folder: 13 : 1 Agendas of meetings of the Presidium of the Department of National Security and the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to church affairs and the liquidation of kulaks; proposals on Soviet consultants; statistics about Czechoslovak refugees; reports on the transfer of 800 families in Brno, and trials and imprisonment for political offenses Box/Folder: 13 : 2 Final report of the Commission of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on political trials in 1949-1953, parts I and II Box/Folder: 13 : 3 Report on the creation of a single Defense, Security, and Justice Department; personnel files of the Department of Interior; final report of the Commission of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on political trials in 1949–1954; report on employees of the Department of National Security relating to the use of violence during interrogations of prisoners Box/Folder: 14 : Lawsuit of the police of the Czech Republic, Department of Documentation and 1-2 Examination of Crimes of , against Karel Rusov (Russwurm), parts I and II Box/Folder: 14 : 3 Reports on the situation of the former Uniate (Greek-Catholic) Church in East Slovakia, activities of the Seventh-Day Adventists, the prisoner cleric Felix Davídek, and security during celebrations in the church sv. Víta in Prague in 1988, report for the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on the situation in Iraq, and on Ladislav Technik (Svobodné Slova), the Corps of National Security, activities of church representatives and the Mormons, the interrogation of Vojtěch Křížek, trials and imprisonment for political offenses, and the situation of national security; election of Jan Kotouč as head of the Evangelic Methodist Church; letters from bishop Ján Vojtaššák to Dean Eduard Bugár and vicar Scheffer; newspaper clipping about trials of agents Lorenc, Kincl, Vykypěl Box/Folder: 14 : 4 Reports on the situation of national security in 1969 and 1982, activities of the Corps of National Security, the border guards, and the troops under the Department of Interior, and trials and imprisonment for political offenses; proposal for a lawsuit against the group Russicum and for the reorganization of convents Box/Folder: 14 : 5 Reports on the situation of the former Uniate (Greek-Catholic) Church in East Slovakia, activities of the Seventh-Day Adventists, activities of the Christian-Democratic Party deputy František Kaďůrek, trials of church members, burials of bishops Robert Pobožný and Josef Hlouch, the religious ceremonies of Virgin Marie Svatohorská, the burial of bishop Karel Skoupý, and the surveillance of church services in Prague in 1949; report on the confiscated religious American movie Youth in Trouble; minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to church affairs

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Box/Folder: 15 : Personnel files of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating 1-2 to Pavel Minařík and Stanislav Staněk; private documents of Jiří Setina relating to his publication about communist crimes against the Czech population and civil society in 1945–1989. Scope and Content Note Includes the speech of Jiří Setina in Zurich entitled "What Does the Czech Republic Look Like in 1996?", correspondence with the Czech Catholic church, letters of congratulations on the nomination of Jiří Setina as attorney general of the Czech Republic, and newspaper clippings; reports on trials and imprisonment for political offenses and the Czech agent Stefan Kolman, shot to death by Oldřich Kvapil; application of Ivan Kočárník for membership in the Czechoslovak Communist Party

Box/Folder: 15 : Report on the trial of Ladislav Mácha relating to the death of priest Jan Toufar 3-5 Box/Folder: 16 : 1 Minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to church affairs; evaluation of public opinion; plan of surveillance of churches (K operation) Box/Folder: 16 : 2 Minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to church affairs Box/Folder: 16 : 3 Minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to trials of clerics and the amnesty for prisoners Box/Folder: 16 : Lawsuit of the Police of the Czech Republic, Department of Documentation and 4-5 Examination of Crimes of Communism, against Karel Rusov (Russwurm), parts III and IV Box/Folder: 17 Documents on church archives, including minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, minutes of the meetings of the minister of national security, and minutes of meetings of the Office for Church Affairs Box/Folder: 17 : 1 1947-1950 Box/Folder: 17 : 2 1951-1954 Box/Folder: 17 : 3 1955-1970 Box/Folder: 17 : 4 1971-1991 Box/Folder: 18 Reports on national safety and security Box/Folder: 18 : 1 1969–1973 Box/Folder: 18 : 2 1977 Box/Folder: 18 : 3 1978-1980 Box/Folder: 19 : 1 1980-1981 Box/Folder: 19 : 2 1980-1981 Box/Folder: 19 : 3 1982-1986 Box/Folder: 19 : 4 1987-1989 Box/Folder: 20 : 1 Reports on the confiscation of Gestapo documents from Bohumil Siebert, and on Josef Vondráček; report of Minister of the Interior Václav Nosek on the Security Committee and activities of the Secret Service; minutes of meetings of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; personnel files of employees of section Z of the Department of Interior and of Marie Vosková Box/Folder: 20 : 2 Reports on activities of members of the Corps of National Security, trials and imprisonment of Stěpán Gavenda, Miloš Zemánek, and Juraj Dlouhý; personnel files of the Department of Interior; list of escaped deputies Box/Folder: 20 : 3 List of prisoners tortured during interrogations; working plan (October-December 1949) for the Security Section of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; proposal of Alexej Cepička to fill positions on the regional and provincial security commission; reports on Dr. Hromádka, Václav Tippl, trials for political offenses, and activities of Karel Sváb; minutes of meetings of the management of the State Security

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Box/Folder: 20 : 4 Interview of deputy Kudrny with Jindřich Veselý, Václav Aleš, Heda Synková, and Ladislav Kopřiva; statement of Jaroslav Procházka; final report on the case Cihošťský Zázrak; reports on criminal methods of the 2nd sector of the Department of Interior in 1949–1954, the removal of Bohumil Doubek from the Department of Interior, the removal of the statue of T. G. Masaryk in Prostějově, and activities of the administration of the Department of Interior; minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the trial of Stěpán Plaček Box/Folder: 20 : 5 Report on trials for political offenses in 1953–1954 Box/Folder: 20 : 6 Report on interrogation methods of the 2nd sector of the Department of Interior in 1949–1954 Box/Folder: 20 : Report on interrogation methods of the 1st sector of the Department of Interior in 7-8 1949–1954 Box/Folder: 21 : 1 Statements of employees of the Security Commission Ladislav Niewald and František Novák; minutes of meetings of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; two letters from Heda Synková; record of accused functionaries of Czech and Slovak parties; list of old prisoners Box/Folder: 21 : 2 Report on the development of the State Security in 1945-1967 Box/Folder: 21 : 3 Reports on death penalties, 1948–1950, the trial of Rudolf Barák, and final inquiries on political trials in 1949–1954 Box/Folder: 21 : 4 Reports of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on the Trotskyite group Neuman and on trials and death penalties for political offenses Box/Folder: 21 : 5 Reports on trials and death penalties for political offenses, interrogations of Jan Curák and Josef Trojan, and the investigation of illegal departures of trains going abroad; statement of Ladislav Zelenka relating to his work; personnel files of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; letter of Jiří Cermák relating to the complaint against Ladislav Kopřiva; minutes of meetings of the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Box/Folder: 21 : 6 Reports on trials and death penalties for political offenses; proposal on the dissolution and prohibition of Zionistic organizations, the nomination of a head prosecutor in the Slanský trial, and the use of prisoners in factory production; order of the minister of national security on burials of agents and terrorists; letter from Karel Sváb to Klement Gottwald Box/Folder: 22 : 1 Register of the State Regional Archives, Town Archives, State District Archives, and archives of special significance; private archive of Karel Klos, minister of justice Box/Folder: 22 : 2 Proposal on the reorganization of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; minutes of meetings of the board of the National Security Department and the Political Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party; report on trials and imprisonment for political offenses; statistical survey of detainees of State Security Box/Folder: 22 : 3 Reports on dispatching of employees of the Department of Interior to capitalist countries, trials and imprisonment for political offenses, the custody of railroad borders, and activities of the 2nd Special Division of the Department of Interior; statistical survey of Czech refugees in foreign countries; statute of the administration of the Department of Interior Box/Folder: 23 : 1 Report on the Karel and Farský operations Box/Folder: 23 : Report on the internment of officers in forced labor camps 2-3 Box/Folder: 23 : 4 Report on the surveillance of citizens Reports on the surveillance and interrogation of Box/Folder: 23 : 5 Michal Cernega (Charta 77) Box/Folder: 23 : 6 Svatopluk Karásek Box/Folder: 23 : 7 Vlastimil Třešňák (Charta 77) Box/Folder: 23 : 8 Personnel files of Jan Piller, Zdeněk Mlynář, Vasil Bilak, Joseph Lenárt, Zbyněk Soják, Drahomír Kolder, Alois Indra, and Emil Rigo; list of interned Hungarians Box/Folder: 23 : 9 Personnel file of Pavel Landovský

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Box/Folder: 24 : 1 Personnel file of Ivan Fiala (pseudonym Albatros) relating to the Prolog and Akropulos operations Box/Folder: 24 : Reports on the Věra operation relating to the surveillance of Klement Lukeš, Robert 2-4 Horák, and Miloš Vavruška, parts I, II and III Box/Folder: 25 : 1 Survey on the structure of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, 1945–1989, and the functionaries of Central Organs of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, 1945–1989; reports on the staff of the Corps of National Security (VKR) in August 1968 Box/Folder: 25 : 2 Proposal on the observation of illegal group activities; minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to criminal laws and cooperation between organs of the Department of Interior; order of the leader of the administration of the Corps of National Security on the establishment of a counter-intelligence main management; personnel files of the Department of Interior; report on safety and security in Czechoslovakia and results of negotiations between Czechoslovak and Soviet ministers of interior in August 1989 Box/Folder: 25 : 3 Reports on the political trial of Gustav Husák and activities of Gustav Husák and Novomeský in 1939-1941 Box/Folder: 25 : 4 Reports on the 9th congress of the Slovak Communist Party, the interrogation of Bedřich Reicin, and trials of Rudolf Barák and Osvald Závodský Box/Folder: 26 : 1 Dissertation of Zdeněk Boháč about the escape of Czechoslovak citizens into nonsocialist countries; working plan of the administration of the State Security in Hradec Králové for the years 1979-1982; surveillance reports of the military police on fortifications and obstacles on the Czechoslovak- German and Czechoslovak-Austrian borders and on the Carpatho- border; minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the invasion of Prague by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968 Box/Folder: 26 : 2 Report on the evaluation of annual work plans for 1978-1985 of the administration of the State Security in Ustí nad Labem and České Budějovice Box/Folder: 26 : 3 Report on the evaluation of annual work plans for 1980-1983 of the administration of the State Security in Ústí nad Labem; quarterly information report on problems of the administration of the Corps of National Security in Plzeň, 1984-1986 Box/Folder: 26 : 4 Personnel files of the Czech police, Department of Documentation and Examination of Crimes of Communism, on Zdeněk Němec, Oldřich Mezl, and Bohumil Carda; personnel files of the Czech police in Hradec Králové, Department of Documentation and Examination of Crimes of Communism, on Vladimír Krejčík, Antonín Valter, Josef Kroulík, et al. Box/Folder: 26 : 5 Personnel files of the Czech police in Ceské Budejovice and Ustí nad Labem, Department of Documentation and Examination of Crimes of Communism Box/Folder: 27 : 1 Reports of the Department of Interior on the Jarov 83, Klánovice, and Oliva 88 operations, including descriptions of microphone installation in the apartment of Karel Havlík in Prague Box/Folder: 27 : 2 Reports on trials of State Security employees and of Jan Hora on problems of State Security employees (1948, 1964) Box/Folder: 27 : 3 Statements of Otmar Kašina, Antonín Kavan, Andrej Keppert, Antonín Prchal, and Karel Košťál relating to their activities in the party; list of employees of the 6th sector of the Department of Interior (1951–1959) Box/Folder: 27 : 4 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; report on trials of State Security employees (1956, 1964) Box/Folder: 28 : 1 Statements of employees of the 2nd sector of the Department of Interior (1962–1963) Box/Folder: 28 : 2 Statements and interrogations of Corps of National Security employees (1951–1964) Box/Folder: 28 : 3 Report on the examination of Corps of National Security employee Václav Líbal and testimonies Box/Folder: 29 : 1 Personnel files of the Department of Interior; reports on the situation of the State Security in Czechoslovakia, the analysis of criminal activities in the Military Court, and the reorganization of the regional administrations of the Department of Interior (1954–1961, 1968, 1969)

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Box/Folder: 29 : 2 Reports on the situation of the Department of Interior, and the number of employees in regional administrations of the Department of Interior Box/Folder: 29 : 3 Proposal on the renewal of the proof of evidence for convicted individuals; activity report and work plan of the 4th Special Division of the Department of Interior (1953–1954); list of deceased prisoners between 1948 January 1 and 1968 June 30 Box/Folder: 29 : 4 Reports on activities of the guerilla brigade Mistr in 1964 Box/Folder: 30 : 1 Reports on interrogation methods referring to the political trials of 1949–1954, of the Commission of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on political prisoners in 1949–1954, and on activities of the Department of National Security, 1949–1954 Box/Folder: 30 : 2 Report on the development of the State Security in 1945-1967 Box/Folder: 30 : 3 Minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the amendment of §109, church affairs, and the emigration of Czech citizens; reports on the death of the prisoner Pavel Wonka, the political situation between August 15 and 22 1988, in regard to the 20th anniversary of August 1968, and the regional political situation between 1988 October 27 and 30; statement on the proposal of the minister of interior relating to the change in structure of the Department of Interior Box/Folder: 30 : 4 Minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to activities during celebrations of the CSR, the political situation in 1988 December, and the aims and general tasks of the Corps of National Security, the Frontier Guard, and the troops under the Department of Interior for the year 1989; proposal on the change of the party structure of the Federal Department of Interior; order of the People's Militia commander; report on foreign broadcasting jamming Box/Folder: 31 : 1 Minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to an agreement between the Department of Interior and Hungarian armed forces minister Muennich, and trials of Jiří Kárný, Otto Eisler, Vilém Stanovský, Jaroslav Nebesář, Jan Bárta, et al.; letter from Stefan Rais to Rudolf Barák Box/Folder: 31 : 2 Minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to verifications of employees of departments and central offices; government decision of 1958 March 14; reports on activities of the National Security Department in 1949–1954, and activities of justice organs during political trials; proposal on trials of collaborators of Rudolf Slanský Box/Folder: 31 : 3 Report of Karol Bacílek on his activity in the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1963; personnel files of the Presidium and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the Department of Interior; report of the Department of Justice on collaborators of Rudolf Slanský; letter of the attorney general about convicted social democrats Box/Folder: 32 : 1 Report of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on trials for political offenses; interview with Vladimír Kohoutek about activities of Soviet consultants in 1955 July Box/Folder: 32 : 2 Reports of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on trials for political offenses, and of the minister of interior, minister of justice, and the attorney general on the situation of Czech prisons in 1956 Box/Folder: 32 : 3 Reports of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on trials for political offenses, and of the minister of interior, minister of justice, and the attorney general on the situation of Czech prisons in 1956; working plan of the administration of the Department of Interior; minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to employees honored with medals Box/Folder: 33 : 1 Report of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to Czech citizens in foreign countries (after August 1968); dissertation of Zdeněk Boháč; report for the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on censoring letters and foreign broadcasting jamming; letter of Jindřich Veselý

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Box/Folder: 33 : 2 Reports of the Government Commission for Persecution of Nazi crimes on their activities, of the minister of interior on safety and security, of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party on trials for political offenses and on the 16th Czechoslovak Communist Party congress Box/Folder: 33 : 3 Reports on interrogation reforms, chief problems in the Department of Interior, and statistics about criminality in 1970; minutes of meetings of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to rehabilitations of prisoners Box/Folder: 34 Trials of Božena Vltavská, Karel Lébr, Josef Martínek, Josef Hůrka, Josef Měřička, Jiří Buřil, Karel Janouch, Rudolf Kolena, and Vladimír Cerný Box/Folder: 34 : 1 Part I Box/Folder: 34 : 2 Part II Box/Folder: 34 : Appendix 3-4 Box/Folder: 35 : 1 Reports on activities of justice organs during the period of political trials and of the Commission of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to the period of political processes in 1949–1953 Trials of Jaroslav Zajíc, Otakar Beck, Karla Hlubocká, Josef Hlubocký, Josef Holeček, Miroslav Livora, Božena Livorová, Josef Martínek, Jan Síma, Bohumil Vejdělek, and Salamoun Welkes Box/Folder: 35 : 2 Documentation Box/Folder: 35 : 3 Appendix Box/Folder: 35 : 4 Statements of employees of the Department of Interior relating to their activities 1955-1957, Scope and Content Note A - K

Box/Folder: 36 : 1 1955-1957, Scope and Content Note L – R

Box/Folder: 36 : 2 1955–1957, Scope and Content Note R - Z

Box/Folder: 37 : 1 Minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to trials of commanders Bohumil Doubek and Vladimír Kohoutek; report on activities of the Commission for Inquiries of Political Trials 1949–1954 Box/Folder: 37 : 2 Minutes of meetings of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party relating to trials of individuals with major political functions Box/Folder: 37 : 3 Report on individuals with major political functions Box/Folder: 38 : 1 Proposal on working plans of the Corps of National Security in ; orders of the minister of interior Box/Folder: 38 : 2 Lawsuits of the police of the Czech Republic, Department of Documentation and Examination of Crimes of Communism, against Bohumil Paukert, Josef Sobáň, and Josef Gába; proposal on work plans of the Corps of National Security in Ostrava Box/Folder: 38 : 3 Proposal on work plans of the Corps of National Security in Plzeň, Brno, Hradec Králové, Brno, and Ceské Budějovice; lawsuit of the police of the Czech Republic, Department of Documentation and Examination of Crimes of Communism, against Jan Puklický Memorabilia--Medals Box/Folder: 38 : 4 Za službu vlasti Scope and Content Note (shift for the fatherland)

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Box/Folder: 38 : 5 Stráž Národní Bezpečnosti, SNB Scope and Content Note (Guard of the National Security)

Box/Folder: 38 : 6 Za vynikající práci Scope and Content Note (excellent work)

Box/Folder: 39 Closed

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