KATREBOVÁ BLEHOVÁ, Beáta: Anti-communist intelligence resistance in connection with the Slovak exile in the years 1946 – 1950. Case of Alexander Matúš in documents

The topic of the anti­communist resistance and the intelligence operations of the Western secret services against Czechoslovakia in the early Cold War period is only partially treated historiographically. Closely related to the intelligence-­based anti-­Communist resistance is the subject of agents­couriers linked to various exile groups or Western secret services. One of the resistance group was the network of agent-­couriers of Alexander Matúš, an officer of the Slovak Army, who remained in exile in Austria after 1945, where he began to cooperate with the French occupation authorities. The presented documents introduce the activities of Matúš's network from 1946, their numerous courier trips to Slovakia, the transmission of various intelligence information, the transfer of people threatened by the regime across the border until 1950, when most of Matúš's collaborators were exposed by the Czechoslovak State Security. The documents are one of the few sources that capture the intelligence activities of the Matúš's network.