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and Analysis at the Federal Ministry of Interior to serve as a unit for relations
with SSEP. 11 The referenced unit was in charge of the centralisation of records
on hostilities carried out by the imperialistic intelligence services and provided
for communication between the system users and Moscow. The intelligence
activities conducted by the State Security for more than ten years in order to
build the information system resulted in a collection of more than 2,000 pieces
of preserved microfiches (of which 1,914 contained baseline information and
274 contained supplementary information). Before 1995, over 120,000 questionnaires
were entered into the SOUD records from Czechoslovakia to include
data on approximately 30,000 thousand persons. 12
Personal Files of Members of the State Security
The position of the Soviet advisory officers – analogous to the I st Directorate
of the National Security Force (Intelligence) – became strengthened also in
other central units of the State Security in Prague and Bratislava. The communication
between the advisors, and later the members of KGB, and the individual
units of the State Security was arranged by the managerial staff who graduated
from F. E. Dzerzinsky University KGB of the USSR in Moscow. 13 In addition to
the communication support, the university graduates would safeguard the influence
of the KGB on the operations of the State Security. This intent grew even
11 For details on the origin and creation of SSEP in terms of the State Security, refer
to RENDEK, Peter: Systém zjednotenej evidencie poznatkov o nepriateľovi
(System of Collective Register of Records on the Enemy). In. Pamäť národa
(Nation´s Memory), No. 2/2005, pp. 62 – 74.; TOMEK, Prokop: Ambiciózní, ale
neúspešný pokus. Systém sjednocené evidence poznatku o nepříteli (Ambitious
yet unsuccessful experiment. System of Collective Register of Records on the Enemy).
In: BLAŽEK, Petr et al.: Opozice a odpor proti komunistickému režimu v
Československu 1968 – 1989 (Opposition and Resistance against the Communist
Regime in Czechoslovakia 1968-1989). Praha 2005, pp. 223 – 243; CHURAŇ,
Milan et al.: Encyklopedie špionáže. Ze zákulisí tajných služeb, zejména Státní
bezpečnosti (Encyclopaedia of Espionage. From the Backstage of the Secret Service,
esp. State security). Praha 2000, pp. 347 – 348.
12 RENDEK, Peter: c. d., p. 71.
13 Having analysed the preserved personal files of the managerial personnel working
in regions early in 1980´s we may conclude that the chiefs at 1 st and 2 nd departments
had mostly graduated from the referred-to university.