Činnost kontrarozvědky StB proti Amnesty International v dochovaných dokumentech
State Security Service (StB) counterintelligence activities against Amnesty International in the preserved documents

Summary/Abstract: The edition of documents presents the development of elaboration of Amnesty International, an international movement defending human rights, by Directorate X of the National Security Corps (SNB) – Counterintelligence Directorate of the State Security Service for the Fight with the Internal Enemy. This Non-governmental organization (NGO) was considered by the StB as part of a coordinated Western ideological diversion. Its elaboration was unique, because no other foreign NGO was engaged in Czechoslovakia to such an extent. However, it could only act unofficially in the country and as an “ideological enemy”. The set of documents shows the increasing scope of activities of Amnesty International in the period from 1974 to 1989, as well as the helplessness of State Security Service officers in their effort to prevent its operation. The presented documents are mostly regular assessments of the StB activities on the given task at the StB Central Directorate, showing both the potential and the limits of documents of this kind if operative dossiers were destroyed. An extensive dossier on subject of interest was kept on Amnesty International at Directorate X of the SNB, but it was completely shredded at the end of 1989.

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