Friday, 21. March 2003

Czech Republic Publishes Ex-Agents List
75,000 people identified as agents of the former communist secret police, the STB.


The 5,700-page list was posted on the ministry's Internet page and Czechs can consult it at six offices, four of them in the capital, Prague.

Since 1997, Czech citizens have been allowed to see their own police files, but not files held on other people. A new law that was adopted by the parliament last year gave them access to all STB files and ordered the Interior Ministry to publish the names of everyone listed as an agent.

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