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US considers changing role in Afghanistan ... not collaborate with the service. The VKR registered them as confidants only on the basis of the statements by the VKR employees who established their files, they said. "It does not contain my signature, there is not a single sentence there that I would have said, it is the statement of one person that wrote something," Bartos said. He said he was included in the list on the basis of a denouncement of his friend which he discovered only from the file. The names of ODS deputy Juraj Raninec and opposition Social Democrat (CSSD) deputy Pavel Ploc have also appeared in the VKR registration protocols that the Archive of Security Forces published last Friday. However, Raninec's file had been shredded during the mass elimination of the documents of communist bodies after the fall of the Communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989, Zacek said. Zacek said that the Archive of Security Forces also intended to publish Ploc's file along with his statement but Ploc has not given his consent. Previously, Ploc, a former ski jumping champion, denied that he consciously collaborated with the VKR.
He said the service constantly watched him and his counterparts from the army club Dukla Liberec due to their trips abroad. The Social Democrats today protested against the method in which the Archive of the Security Forces and the USTR had released the information on Ploc's featuring in the VKR registration protocols. "We warned against similar abuse of sensitive data even at the time when the government of Mirek Topolanek (ODS) established these institutions," the CSSD said in a press statement. It said it intends to take legal steps against the Archives of the Security Forces due to the case. Zacek today rejected the criticism saying that his institute acted according to the law. The Czech Archives of the Security Forces published registration protocols of the VKR on its new website www.abscr.cz. The database contains 309 registration files on about 140,000 people. It was found earlier that VKR had in its files Evzen Snitily, a former Social Democrat deputy who deserted the party, and Senator Milan Spacek (the Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL). In their cases, a court has decided that it was deliberate collaboration.
(Ceske Noviny)
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