BÁRTA, Milan. Agency Outposts of the Czechoslovak Intelligence

Czechoslovak Intelligence Agency outposts, set up on the military intelligence model, were intended to represent bases for intelligence infiltration into West Germany and Austria. They were set up after World War II. Still, organisational problems in intelligence meant that the extensive plans including a network of agency outposts along the western border were never realized. It was not until 1949 that six offices were successfully established (in Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, České Budějovice, Jihlava, Brno, Bratislava). The interest was in the political and economic situation in Germany and Austria, Czechoslovak emigration, displaced Germans and the American occupation authorities. The interest was in the political and economic situation in Germany and Austria, Czechoslovak emigration, displaced Germans and the American occupation authorities. However, the man aged agency outposts were mostly poor, and the pursuit of quantity instead of quality prevailed. Many people used cooperation as a source of quick funds or a way to escape through the borders. At the time of the reorganization and centralization of the intelligence apparatus in the second half of 1950, the agency outposts were abolished.