RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 18 February 1999
SLOVAKIA TO APOLOGIZE TO CZECHS? The government on 17
February approved declassifying a report delivered to a
closed session of the parliament last week by the chief of
the Slovak Counter-Intelligence Service (SIS), Vladimir
Mitro, CTK reported. Earlier the same day, Deputy Premier
Pavol Hamzik told journalists that the government may have to
apologize to the Czech Republic if the allegations contained
in Mitro's report prove true. According to those allegations,
the SIS, under the leadership of Ivan Lexa, sought to hinder
the Czech Republic's admission to NATO by discrediting that
country (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 16 February 1999). Referring
to leaks from Mitro's report, the Hungarian daily
"Nepszabadsag" on 18 February wrote that under Lexa, the SIS
undertook attempts to discredit Budapest and supplied arms to
organized crime in Hungary. According to "Nepszabadsag," the
SIS also engaged in spying in connection with the Gabcikovo-
Nagymaros dam dispute. MS
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