Friday, April 18, 2003

Shaming & Naming Fleace: Boardroom agents

One of the nation's biggest publishing success stories in recent times is not a book, newspaper or magazine. Rather, it's the Interior Ministry's official list, published in March, of collaborators with the Communist-era secret police, the StB. All 3,000 copies of the initial print run of the nearly 6,000-page-long list were distributed a matter of hours.
The list includes around 78,000 names of StB collaborators and informants. Quite a few of those names are now top managers of the most prominent companies in this economy.
· Cold Revenge [Prague Post]