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Assistant professor at @CharlesUniPRG, researcher @USD_AV_CR , head of @CWRGPrague, Cold War history, Czechoslovakia, secret intelligence

Prague
Joined June 2015
Press release about my recently published article 🇨🇾🇨🇿 Czechoslovak Intelligence Operations in Cyprus During the Cold War apnews.com/press-release/ein…
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How did Czechoslovak intelligence interfere in the Cyprus conflict after 1974? Who did it recruit?🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️What were its main intelligence operations in Cyprus? These and other questions are answered in my new article ✍️👇 #spy tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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My essay on Philip Muehlenbeck's Czechoslovakia in Africa. The author has used, in my view, very unethical working method, using the archival work of two Czech historians without fully acknowledging it: sd.usd.cas.cz/corproof.php?t…
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✍️ V časopise International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence byl publikován článek „In the Shadow of the KGB: Legacy of Czechoslovak Intelligence (1948–1989)“, jehož spoluautorem je dr. @JanKoura z Ústavu světových dějin FF UK.
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The CWRN is proud to co-sponsor the book launch of Dr. Frank Gerits, titled The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966. eventbrite.com/e/book-launch… @FrankGerits
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CWRG co-organizes the lecture "From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe - and Back" by Prof. Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), which will take place on 16 November 2022 at 10:00 at Faculty of Arts, Charles University ff.cuni.cz/2022/11/historian…
New research project #GAČR and @snsf_ch with @MikulasPesta as PI is looking for new colleagues!!! @USD_AV_CR @Akademie_ved_CR #research #ScienceJobs
📢 Do týmu mezinárodního projektu „Od studentského internacionalismu k Erasmu. Globalizace a europeizace studentského života po roce 1945“ hledáme nové posily! Výše úvazku 0,5; délka pracovního poměru 3 roky, nástup od 1. 1. 2023. Více na 👉 usd.cas.cz.
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The workshop "The Socialist Countries and the Third World: Recent Approaches and New Perspectives" is finished and it was amazing! Organized by @CWRGPrague and Constantin Katsakioris @ericburton227 @matek_g @JanKoura
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Work in PRAAD archive on Czechoslovak experts in Ghana 🇨🇿🇬🇭
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Thank you all for coming to our panel about Eastern European intelligence services and the Global South at @BASEES conference in Cambridge, and thanks @nat_telepneva, @JanKoura, @KseniaWes, @MikulasPesta for a fascinating discussion!
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Paraphrasing Lenin: Communists will even sell us AK-47 which we will use to kill them. Happy to share my paper on how the CIA used arms dealers to purchase Polish weapons which was sent to Contras and Afghan mujahideen in the mid 80s. 50 free copies /DM: tandfonline.com/eprint/NNX8N…
Another story that came to light during my research on Mehdi Ben Barka and his collaboration with Czechoslovak intelligence. More details in my INS article published in 2020 1url.cz/MKTR0 and @lobs 👇
🔎 L'historien @JanKoura est tombé par hasard sur le dossier de l'agent "Pipa" dans les archives des services secrets tchécoslovaques, et l'a confié à @lobs. Nous avons ainsi pu retracer l'histoire incroyable de Jean Clémentin, l'#EspionDuCanard 👉 nouvelobs.com/monde/20220215…
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Dans une interview exclusive avec Maroc Hebdo, Jan Koura nous confie des révélations croustillantes sur Ben Barka et l’étendue de sa collaboration avec les services secrets tchécoslovaques. bit.ly/3qdG405 @JanKoura
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The entire issue devoted to Ben Barka's collaboration with the StB. It also includes my interview, the most extensive I have given on the subject so far.
En kiosque : BEN BARKA, AGENT DE L’EST ? D’après des archives top secret déclassifiées, le leader socialiste travaillait pour le compte des services secrets tchécoslovaques pendant la guerre froide. Lire le sommaire : bit.ly/3qVcHi5
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