KAREL BACILEK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005100530001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. In the summer of 1953, U? critical ~ trriod for devolopments within the
Ccmmuni3t. Party-9 Ka8bl 1acilck as vacationing with Zdene'k Fierlinger
in Pysely near Prague Thy, area was heavil.:y guarded by secret police pla3xr-
eTotlzee: iaen, /: but I acelik mixed freely with other summer resort
c) The: failure of Lacflek to -.ake police action to purge Slovakia
of the remains of the Ciementis 10ge.ng".
3. Bo.cilek? s '-deviations" invest5.gatcd by a special Communist Party.
committee, which socommenclod Bacilok for his job in Slovakia with
instructions to strengthen the; relatively weak organization of the
Slovak i onntinist Party. Thus,'for Bacilek this represents- a chance
to "repent?l and to prove his wol Lhiness once More. Privately Bacilek
spends more time in Prague than in Slovakia.
2. Bt?.c~ ae :? s demotion from the post of Minisi?er of National Security
to that of Slovak Communist Party Secretary was allegedly the result
of three factors t
a) Thi fall-of Beria;
b) The "boargeois?? behavior of Bacilek1 s son (luxurious life,
A 4 t'-! n? artier etc.1 %
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Approved For Release 2007/07/19: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005100530001-9