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ministrative agencies inside the country and abroad, the first Soviet advisory
officers turned up. 6 Using their own methods and experience the Soviet KGB
advisors begun to define objectives and forms of co-operation to be conducted
by Czechoslovak Intelligence, namely by the I st Directorate (assumed name).
Under the concept of the ´Struggle for Peace and Socialism´ the two intelligence
services coordinated their activities first on a yearly basis, and later, on
the basis of five-year operational plans. The plans referred to the activities
conducted by the Centre and by the individual Residencies. The final forms
of the operational plans were specified by Moscow after negotiations with the
Chief of the I st Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior (later, the Federal
Ministry of Interior). Such a dependent subordinate position required that the
activities of Czechoslovak Intelligence were, in practice, conducted against all
former capitalist countries around the world. The focus of their activities was
to obtain classified documents, resources and secret information of political,
military, economic, scientific, technological and state-security-related contents.
The operational activity of the intelligence was documented in the agency and
operative files.
Intelligence kept its own register and operative records. 7 The operative
records were to collect all operational resources – closed files, which were upon
receipt transposed onto films and microfiches. The operative files except for
the TS personal files and financial sub-files, were destroyed. 8 After November
nosti satelitných služeb (Czechoslovak Defector Analysis of Satellite Services
Activity). In: Pamäť národa (Nation´s Memory), no. 2/2005, pp. 33 – 39.
6 In the early September 1949 in connection to the László Rajka´s process, Rákosi
labelled the Czechoslovak security bodies as underexperienced, and he advised
Gottwald and Slansky to ask for allocation of Soviet advisory officers. The first
Soviet advisors, Lichatchov and Makarov, arrived on September 23, 1949. Their
arrival was first kept secret even from Vaclav Nosek, the Minister of Interior.
7 The method of registration and keeping of files practiced at I st Directorate was last
amended by Order of Chief of I st Directorate no. 2 of January 06, 1988.
8 ŽÁČEK, Pavel: Registrace, vedení a archivace sväzku ve směrnicích čsl. komunistickej
rozvědky (Registration, Files and Archives of the Czechoslovak Intelligence
as per Directives). In: Pamäť národa (Nation´s Memory), no. 2/2006, s. 57
– 68.; RENDEK, Peter: Agentúrno-operatívne zväzky v informačnom systéme
československej rozviedky (Agency and Operative Files in the Information System
of the Czechoslovak Intelligence). In: Pamäť národa (Nation´s Memory), no.
2/2006, pp. 68 – 73; KESZELI, Tomáš: Záujmové osoby v evidencii I. správy