UZSI in Media
Archival Documents Disclosure Agenda of the Former Communist Intelligence Service Is Submitted to Another Institution
24. 01. 2008 | ÚZSIThe Office for Foreign Relations and Information ceases to be one of the institutions disclosing archival documents originating from security forces of former communist Czechoslovakia to public. All agenda connected with the disclosure of these archival documents is as of 1. February 2008 transferred to the Institute for Totalitarian Regimes Studies.
UZSI Has New Website
10. 12. 2007 | ÚZSIThe Office for Foreign Relations and Information's website offers new graphics, adjusted structure and extended contents. It has been the third version of the site since 2002, when UZSI started to communicate with the general public in this way.
Czech Foreign Intelligence Has New Director
01. 06. 2007 | ÚZSIAs of 1 June 2007, Ivo Schwarz became a new Director of UZSI. The government agreed with his nomination during its session on 30 May 2007. Schwarz replaced an interim director, Jiri Lang, who had been in charge of UZSI since the end of September 2006.
The Danger of Oversimplification
23. 01. 2006 | NATOaktual.czCommentary on the danger of oversimplification in the debate on the fight against terrorism, by Bohumil Srajer, the adviser to the UZSI director and the spokesman of the service.
MI6’s Czech Sister
06. 01. 2006 | iDnesThe secret structure, secret working procedures, secret results, secret statistics, secret contacts and secret agents… State bodies, which should provide the public with as much information as possible, even include those which on the contrary have to maintain required levels of secrecy. These organizations are intelligence services.
We Need More Powers and Stronger Control
22. 12. 2005 | ČT • Události, komentářeAn interview about the role of legislation in the fight against terrorism, given by the UZSI spokesman Bohumil Srajer to Jan Nemec (CT).
Spy Files Shed Light on Past
12. 10. 2005 | The Prague PostCzech intelligence services have opened a new public archive that throws fresh light on the world of communist-era secret operations and provides insights into the mindset and paranoias of the former totalitarian regime.
It Is Almost Impossible to Prevent Attacks from Happening
08. 07. 2005 | Hospodářské novinyIf politicians rely on someone to provide them with timely warning of imminent danger, then it is only the secret services that can do that. According to the head of the Czech intelligence service Karel Randak, however, the blasts in London proved again that similar, carefully planned, terrorist actions cannot in fact be prevented.
Terrorists Killed Dozens of People in London
07. 07. 2005 | ČT • Události, komentářeInterview with UZSI spokesman Bohumil Srajer conducted by the CT commentator Daniela Drtinova on the date of the terrorist attacks in London subway trains and a bus.
Al Qaeda Is a Loosely Connected Network
07. 07. 2005 | BBCInterview with UZSI Director Karel Randak conducted by the BBC commentator Vaclav Moravec on the date of the terrorist attacks in London subway trains and a bus.
Reform of Palestinian Security Forces
02. 03. 2005 | ČT • Události, komentářeInterview of the UZSI spokesman Bohumil Srajer with the Czech Television moderator Daniela Drtinova concerning the situation inside the Palestinian security forces and about the attempts of the chairman of Palestinian autonomy Mahmoud Abbas to reform them.
Our Country Is Not Immune to External Threats
10. 01. 2005 | PrávoAn interview with the UZSI director Karel Randak about the tasks and possibilities of a civil intelligence service, about security checks, about the situation in Iraq and about security threats.
Approach to Communist Secret Police Files Differs
16. 11. 2004 | ČTK • iDnesThe approach to the publication of the documents of the former StB secret police in the Czech Republic and Slovakia differs seriously. The Slovak National Memory Institute (UPN) will publish today on the Internet the first part of the files of the former StB with both foreigners and StB collaborators who are not in the published Czech files. On the other hand, Slovaks can only look into their own personal file, while Czechs can also see the files of other people.