KGB's "collapse of communism" in Czechoslovakia analysis - Part 1

by Miroslav Dolejsi

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[Read also important Part 2]

Mr. Dolejsi, as a Catholic and former political prisoner [18.5 years in communist jail] was allowed to work as an advisor to Dr. Richard Sacher, then Czechoslovak Minister of Interior in 1990, and Mr. Dolejsi had access to Czechoslovak Ministry of Interior files for 4 months he was allowed to work there in 1990. His analysis brings serious issues, supported also by already published works of KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn and Czechoslovak General Jan Sejna. This analysis acctualy shows how the Russian "former" communists [KGB, GRU - under orders from the Gorbachov's leadership as part of Soviet long-term strategy] were able to stage the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia and bring therefore America to the disarming table in Malta in 1989, right after the 1989 "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia. Charter 77 group of "dissidents" like the communist agent Vaclav Havel, is the equivalent for example of the Polish KGB operation Solidarity, led by uncoverred communist agent Lech Walesa, code name Bolek.

Part 1, Charter 77

Of the first 216 signatories of Charter 77, as listed on 1 January 1977, 156 of them were former communists among which are names of people significantly compromised by their direct or indirectsupport for the communist terror in Czechoslovakia during the 1950's, for example: Frantisek Krigel, Ladislav Lis, Zdenek Mlynar, Ludmila Jankovcova, Jiri Dienstbier, Lubos Dobrovsky, Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova, Ladislav Kolmistr, Jiri Hajek, Milos Hajek, Jiri Ruml, Oldrich Hromadko, Karel Siktanc, Frantisek Samalik, Ludvik Vaculik, Pavel Kohout, Jarmila Taussigova, Venek Silhan, Libuse Silhanova, Bedrich Placak, Jaroslav Sabata, Jan Stern, Jiri Kanturek, Rudolf Zukal, Ludek Pachman and others.

Based on the intelligence analysis of the CzCP [Czechoslovak Communist Party] internal audit of 1969-1970, it is obvious that about 800 CzCP officials were transferred to the so-called “reserves” by way of expulsions [from the Party]. This enabled the use of these party members as secret agents in such situations as arose after Charter 77 was founded, after 17 November 1989, and for use in variants of the democratization envisioned by the communists.

From this intelligence analysis it is also obvious that about 1,120 communists were sent abroad to infiltrate the émigré political opposition. Until recently the communists used 260 of these people in operations. The remaining 860 were kept in reserve.
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In order to form an alternative opposition in Czechoslovakia [under communist control] it was necessary to manipulate older exile organizations [like the Council for a Free Czechoslovakia and the Czech Academy of Science and Arts, among others]. It was also necessary to manipulate exiles from the pre-1948 period, and to influence persons involved with Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and the BBC [Czech and Slovak broadcasts]. To this end the Czech agent network organized small lobby groups abroad that gradually formed ties with various international organizations and Western governments.

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The Soviet KGB supervised operations of the special Czechoslovak network.

In Czechoslovakia the KGB appointed individuals from the leadership of the CzCP Central Committee who were briefed on aspects of the operation. After 1987 Rudolf Hegenbart [chief of the 13th Directorate of the CzCP Central Committee] was charged with coordinating foreign disinformation operations regarding Charter 77.

Financial support for Charter 77 operations, including support for the leadership's personal needs, was arranged through the Charter 77 Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, by Soviet Academician Ernest Kolmann's son-in-law, Frantisek Janouch, formerly involved in Soviet Nuclear Research.

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Between 1980 and 1989 Charter 77 Foundation received $376,000 to finance activities in Czechoslovakia. About $1.34 million was paid to leading members of Charter 77. These figures do not include money paid out for literary and other awards. About $6 million was transferred to the foreign bank accounts of Charter 77’s leading personalities. These bank accounts are managed by foreign law firms hired to represent individual Charter 77 operatives.
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In order to avoid persecution as an illegal organization under communist law, Charter 77 sent all its proclamations and press releases to state authorities. In its proclamation of 1 January 1977, Charter 77 explicitly stated that it did not want to harm the communist regime, preferring to have a constructive dialogue with the regime. This arrangement was in accordance with the communist orientation of leading Charter 77 members. It also corresponded with agreements made concerning the establishment of Charter 77 and its activities.

The CzCP Central Committee’s fierce campaign against Charter 77 was launched in order to popularize Charter 77 among anti-communists. Charter 77 was also popularized by the uncritical broadcasts of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and the BBC.
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After 1974 the KGB had a new network of agents that includes, today, about seven to eight thousand Czechoslovak citizens who are not in any database of state security.


One visible sign of this network is the leadership of Charter 77 who presently run the Czechoslovak government. From the moment of its founding, Charter 77’s
activities were in agreement with and under the control of the STB [Czech secret police] and KGB.

Despite the fact that Charter 77 was clearly damaging communist and state interests abroad, the state refused to enforce paragraph 112 of the Czechoslovak criminal code that made such activity illegal. Brutal methods were never employed against Charter 77’s publishers. In addition, Charter 77’s materials were published by the leader of the Council for the Defense of the Unjustly Persecuted (VONS), Petr Uhl [an ultra-leftist organizer of Euro-communism who criticized the Communist Party for being too soft].

Without any doubt, had Charter 77 been undesirable from the point of view of the CzCP the group would have been liquidated within 24 hours and nobody would have been the wiser. Liquidation of "undesirable elements" was always the standard way of dealing with anti-communist groups or individuals, or anti-communist opinion. Charter 77 was, on the other hand, able to publish books.
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The reasons for this should be obvious. Charter 77 was ultimately directed by the KGB. The main contact person was the boss of the 13th directorate of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee, Rudolf Hegenbarth, who was ostensibly directing the Federal Ministry of Interior countermeasures against Charter 77. Hegenbarth began directly preparing for a "counter-revolution” in August 1988. Hegenbarth’s contacts actively directed the Civic Forum Coordination Center, especially its personnel. Hegenbarth relied on STB Col. Josef Vostarek and STB
Lt. Col. Krasa and their contacts inside Charter 77 and Civic Forum, Ladislav Lis, Oldrich Hromadko, Zdenek Jicinsky, Jaroslav Sabata, Petr Kucera and advisors of President Vaclav Havel.
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Approximately 180 members of these families, their relatives and friends, took positions in the highest government, diplomatic and economic circles [after November 1989]. This group of Czechoslovak citizens was approved for its present role by authorized organs of the Soviet Union.... Approval was also given by other international organizations.

Charter 77 did not have any appreciable political influence on Czechoslovak domestic politics during its 13-year existence. Such influence would have been undesirable for the communists.

Preparing for political changes in Eastern Europe was the primary focus. Preparation for political change in Europe, including Czechoslovakia, was entrusted to intelligence professionals with resources and years of experience. Charter 77’s mission was to create an anti-communist concentration of “suitable” people who would assure that the changes in Eastern Europe would be controlled changes, orchestrated for the sake of the international communist struggle, which involves all communist parties, programs and front groups. Their main objective here is to mask a long-range approach that entails the liquidation of one phase of communism (i.e., Stalinism) for the sake of a new phase.

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