According to earlier information from Hospodářské noviny (HN), this applies to the Prague candidates of the Václav Šilhavý and Ilja Hron movements.
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However, two former employees of the Communist State Security running in the Hradec Králové Region will be left to the candidates by Šlachta, because, according to HN, they presented him with pure lustration certificates.
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“Two people who were not members of the Oath movement appeared on our list of candidates and at the same time were not able to prove themselves with a pure lustration certificate,” said Šlachta without further details.
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“It simply came to our notice then. It is unacceptable for the Oath to be run for StB agents. In the movement, therefore, we also derived personal responsibility, “said Šlachta without further details.
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Hospodářské noviny wrote last week that according to historical documents of the Security Forces Archive, there are two collaborators and two members of the communist State Security among the candidates of the Oath in the Hradec Králové Region and Prague.
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The seven candidate in the Hradec Králové region, businessman and former police officer Zdeněk Kudrnáč, worked for the StB according to documents in the 1980s and was expected to have a special secret infiltration in the then capitalist Austria.
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Naďa Martincová, who according to the files was with the StB for a short time in 1976, is also running in the same region.
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According to HN, the names of Prague candidates Václav Šilhavý and Ilja Hron appeared in the agents column.
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According to documents, Šilhavý worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before 1989 and could travel to West Berlin. The secret police wanted information from him about emigrants and local travel agencies.
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“Šilhavý refuses to cooperate and claims that his signature in the file is forged and was created in response to the suspicion that he wants to emigrate to West Berlin,” the letter said.
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The files of the programmer Hron, codenamed Jola, have about 400 pages. The StB praised him because, according to her, he was active and, for example, was supposed to carry news from the British computer company ICL, for which he worked in Prague, Hospodářské noviny wrote.
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After the revolution, Kudrnáč worked for 27 years as a police officer in the anti-corruption unit, now he is in business. His case began in the 1980s.
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“In 1984, he had some fifty events within the StB, exploiting foreigners or Czechs traveling to the West,” Milan Bárta, historian of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, told Hospodářské noviny.
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“And just then, the request that Kudrnáč could travel to Vienna with his family came into the hands of his superiors. Coverage would be provided by the state travel agency Čedok. The StB trained him for departure for several years, and in 1986 he joined Čedok, “the daily said.
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But the nobility defended Kudrnáč. “Mr. Kudrnáč even passed the civic commission in the 1990s and has a confidentiality check from the NBU. As for Vienna, according to his statement, he was never in Vienna and did not provide any information about Čedok’s employees, “said HN Šlachta.
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