KATREBOVÁ BLEHOVÁ, Beáta. Štefan B. Roman and his visits to Czechoslovakia in 1966 and 1968 in State Security documents

Štefan Boleslav Roman, a great industrialist and owner of the largest uranium mines in the Western world, was one of the most important representatives of Slovak political exile. For this reason, he found himself in the Czechoslovak State Security's crosshairs, which closely monitored his activities. StB was also interested in Roman's two visits to socialist Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 1960s, which are the subjects of documents from the counter-intelligence environment. The documents, for the first time presented to a wider reading public in a written form, clarify the intention and broader circumstances of Roman's two visits to Czechoslovakia in September 1966 and July 1968. They present a fascinating probe into the Slovak exile, the functioning of economic relations and the problems of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia.