ZÍTEK, Adam. Agency difficulties of rehabilitation or background of one article

The judicial rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia, especially in 1968-1969, redressed for wrongs and brought at least partial justice in some cases. However, uncovering the crimes of earlier times meant considerable complications for State Security. During rehabilitation processes, the practices of the secret police were often exposed, particularly relating to the provocations and its agency activities. This issue is also illustrated by a case of former Secretary to the President Edvard Beneš Ján Belanský and people surrounding him as they were convicted on trumped-up charges in 1959 and rehabilitated in 1969. The provocative nature of the case and the activities of StB collaborators, which also reached the press, illustrate the difficulties of these processes for the security apparatus and, in part, for those who collaborated with it.