An "Oak" in a "Game Park". Ambassadors of West Germany in the spotlight of the State Security 1968-1989
2017
Abstract
The study looks into the surveillance of ambassadors of Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in Communist Czechoslovakia, which the Czechoslovak counter-intelligence carried out in the 1970s and 1980s as part of operation "obora" (game park). The paper aims to cast light on the methods, targets and real outcomes of the work performed by the State Security (StB).
The text also deals with the period when a commercial representation of FRG existed in Prague in the yearsh 1968-1976.