Current Affairs New witness comes forward to cast doubt on Kundera “informer” claims

16-10-2008 17:17 | Rob Cameron

Allegations that the Czech writer Milan Kundera informed on a suspected western agent in 1950 have dominated the news all this week, and on Wednesday there was a new twist: an 81-year-old literary translator named Zdeňek Pešat came forward to say it was not Milan Kundera who had gone to the police, but their mutual friend Miroslav Dlask. Earlier this week Milan Kundera broke a 25-year vow of silence to categorically reject the “informer” claims.

Iva Militká-Dlasková, photo: Ludvík Hradilek, aktualne.centrum.cz Iva Militká-Dlasková, photo: Ludvík Hradilek, aktualne.centrum.cz   Back

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