SCREENING OF MAIL BY SECURITY POLICE/UNSUCCESSFUL REVOLT AGAINST PRESENT GOVERNMENT/CRITICISM OF RADIO FREE EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000300450006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Screening of Mail by Security Police/Unsuccessful NO. OF PAGES 2
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the main purpose of Ws police station was to keep a
list of Czech nationals Vho receiied letters from abroad so that the
maid. was on incoming letters rather than outgoing.
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CONFIDE IAL/SECURITY 'OI TIOIN
3, on.;7 Mar,199,.an unsuccessful revolt against the
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Cozmmunist government. was staged by certain Czechoslovak army of
under. the.lead rshi of a General (fnu) Pry to The revolt resulted
in the arrest of some 600 army office rsp .and 60 colonels and
four generals were executed.
one criticism of Radio Free-' Europe (PFE). Apparently the
station receives, letters from Czechoslovak nationals denouncing
officials of Czech prisons for harsh treatment and other reasons.
Giese denunciations are then incorporated into M pro-
.grams beamed to Czechos ova such denunciations
should be checked carefully before t ey were broadcast s nc
many of the people who had been denounced actually
een mos helpful to jailed Czech political prisoners and that
whatever harsh actions they had. taken were merel to assure their
superiors of their loyalty to the regime. examples of
individuals two guards at the Pnkras Priion in Prague.
Who had smu_
se. 'les .....,am out of the prison or some of the prisoners.
such fundamentally good people often became discourage
AM' =00ei+etive as the rieul.t of sir ju'?tified. dbnuriciations by
'Radio , I ree"Europe.
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