Bratislava, Feb 9 (CTK) – The Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute (UPN) released the list of the former Czechoslovak Communist secret police (StB) officers in Bratislava and western Slovakia today and completed its mapping of the StB’s structure and staff in Slovakia, UPN head Ondrej Krajnak has told reporters.
The Bratislava StB administration as a unit of the Czechoslovak counter-intelligence service was part of the secret police in Slovakia.
The latest documents include the organisational structure and personal data on 1055 StB officers, their names and positions, from 1975 to 1989. A total of 700 of the names have never been released in another database, Krajnak said.
“They participated in the fight against so called internal and external enemies. They spied on, wiretapped and intimidated people and blackmailed them to make them collaborate with StB. They sent their victims behind bars,” Krajnak said.
The Bratislava StB branch processed information on operational and security situation in western Slovakia for high StB and Interior Ministry officials as well as the pre-1989 Communist Party (KSC) representatives.
It was abolished in 1990.
The UPN has released the names of 4135 StB officers. It also used documents from the Czech Archive of Security Forces for its work.
The UPN is an analogy of the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (USTR), studying the crimes of the communist and fascist regimes. It also administers the StB archive files.
