Czech Republic to provide communist-era secret police documents to Slovakia

The Czech Republic will provide communist-era secret police documents related to Slovak citizens to Slovakia, according to an agreement between the Czech Republic’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Security Forces Archive and Slovakia’s Nation’s Memory Institute, signed in the Slovak capital on Wednesday. The digitalized documents will initially only be available for researchers of the Slovak institute, its chair, Ondrej Krajňák, told reporters. The volume of documents to be transferred has not been determined, according to Czech officials who said it would depend on requests from their Slovak colleagues.

Author: Jan Richter