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Title: Pavel Źáček collection
Date (inclusive): 1948-2001
Collection Number: 2000C73
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Czech
Physical Description:
36 manuscript boxes
(14.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Case files, reports, and diaries and interrogation transcripts of Czech senior secret police personnel, relating to secret
service activities in Czechoslovakia. Includes a summary of the secret police file on Václav Havel. Photocopies of originals
in the Národní archiv.
source:
Zacek, Pavel, 1959-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Collection may not be copied until 2056 April 10.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
[Identification of item], Pavel Źáček collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Národní archiv.
Born in 1969, Źáček earned his PhD in mass communication at Charles University, Prague in 2001. His dissertation topic was
the illegal magazine "V Boj." From 1993 to 1997 he served as head of the Documentation Section, Office for the Documentation
and Investigation of the Activities of the State Security Service/Crimes of Communism, and was editor of the anthology
Securitas Imperii, a periodical concerned with state security documents and studies, from 1994 to 1999. In 1997 he became head of the team
for the documentation of the role of Czechoslovak officials in Korea and Vietnam, in cooperation with the U.S. Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs. In 1998 he was appointed deputy director, Office for the
Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism, and then served as senior researcher at the Institute of Contemporary
History, Academy of Sciences in Prague from 1999 to 2006. After a short period as acting director of the Security Services
Archive from 2007 to 2008, Źáček was appointed director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in January
2008. He was a visiting scholar at the Hoover Archives Summer Workshop on Soviet Communism in July 2009.
Scope and Content of Collection
Case files, reports, diaries, and interrogation transcripts of Czech senior secret police personnel, relating to secret service
activities in Czechoslovakia. Includes a summary of the secret police file on Václav Havel. Contains personnel files on State
Security agents, orders and plans, and reports from Ministry of Security X and II Directorates. Photocopies of originals in
the Státní ústřední in Prague.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Secret service -- Czechoslovakia
Civil rights -- Czechoslovakia
Zacek, Pavel, 1959-
Havel, Václav