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Western European militarist forces´. In fewer than four months, another agreement
was signed in Prague by and between the two governments to regulate
provision of mutual legal aid regarding the temporary stay of the Soviet troops
in the territory of the CSSR. The agreement also underlay some specific assignments
to involve the bodies of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, i.e. the State
Security units. 16 Primarily, those were measures to ensure external protection
by the Soviet troops in the territory of Czechoslovakia, mainly with respect to
the discovery of intelligence and other criminal activity aimed against the Soviet
army and its facilities, and mutual use of agency and operative resources.
On taking these measures the State Security establishments cooperated with the
new KGB organisational units in Czechoslovakia.
Common assignments of the State Security and the KGB units regarding
´Protection of the Soviet military forces and facilities´ were handled by socalled
plans for joint actions. At the central level in Prague, these issues were
handled by the II nd Directorate of the National Security Force in co-operation
with a Special Department of the KGB based in Milovice. In Slovakia, the performance
of the organisational measures was at the national level affected by
the respective regional directorates of the State Security and the Special Department
of the KGB based in Zvolen, while at the district level, it was the
responsibility of the KGB representatives to put the measures into practice.
To cover the activities conducted at the central levels – the II nd Directorate
of National Security Force – and regional levels since halfway through 1968,
there were established asset files, incl. sub-files, on specific military facilities
of the Soviet army. 17
Some specific units of the State Security – 2 nd and 1 st departments of regional
directorates, and the officers in charge of the issues at the district level
16 Order of Ministry of Interior of the CSSR No. 8/1969 of March 3, 1969
17 First files on the said issues: II nd Directorate of National Security Force – OB
OBRANA, reg. no. 1387, entered into register on July 28, 1969; Regional Directorate
of National Security Force at State Security Directorate Bratislava – OB
KARTÚZA, reg. no. 11 130, entered into register on December 12, 1969; Regional
Directorate of National Security Force at State Security Directorate Banská
Bystrica – OB OCHRANA, reg. no. 573, entered into register on August 22, 1969;
Regional Directorate of National Security Force at State Security Directorate Košice
– OB OBRANA, reg. no. 8068, entered into register on January 13, 1970.