Military Counterintelligence Directorate (Directorate III)
Post-war military counterintelligence (VKR) was founded on April 15, 1945, when the Main Directorate of Defense Intelligence was created. It was later incorporated into the Main Army Staff. After the February 1948 coup, military counterintelligence began to work fully on the task set by Communist Party of Czechoslovakia leadership – to make the Army into a reliable instrument of power. After several further reorganizations in 1953, military counterintelligence merged into the Ministry of the Interior’s scope of activity, where it was administered under the cover name Directorate VI, and as of 1964, SNB Directorate III. Among its main tasks belonged the exposing of western secret services’ activities, cases of treason, terror, diversion, enemy propaganda, preparations for defection, protection of military secrets, etc. It was authorized to make use of secret collaborators, take suspicious persons into custody, conduct their interrogations, etc. in the fulfilling of its duties.
| Title | Record Group | Time Range | Inventory | Location | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Military Counterintelligence Directorate (Part I)(Správa vojenské kontrarozvědky I. díl) | A 30 | 1954-1971 | Preliminary inventory for Record Group A 30 | Department of Archival Collections of the State Security Service (StB) | 3.96 running meters |
| Military Counterintelligence Directorate (Part II) (Správa vojenské kontrarozvědky II. díl) | A 30/2 | 1954-1971 | Preliminary inventory for Record Group A 30/2 | 48.36 running meters | |
| Hitherto unprocessed materials (Dosud nezpracované materiály) | 1953-1990 | Department of Intelligence and Military Counterintelligence Operative Dossiers | 490 running meters |