Witness claims Senator Spacek knowingly collaborated with communist secret police

A witness has come forward to testify that Christian Democrat Senator Milan Spacek cooperated knowingly with the communist secret police, the StB. Jitka Nagy, one of the people Mr. Spacek allegedly reported on to the StB told Monday's Hospodarske Noviny that he had explained privately to her that he had to cooperate with the StB in order to be able to visit his father in then West Germany. Senator Spacek maintains that he was not aware of the fact that the StB was pumping him for information. If proved otherwise, Senator Spacek would be expelled from the Christian Democrat Party, which has said it will not tolerate former StB collaborators in its ranks.