Under the influence of drugs
As a member of the Černý lev (Black Lion) Boy Scout organisation, Jaroslav Karl was arrested in September 1952 and driven to a StB office in Plzeň with a hood on his head. He remembers that, along the way, the car stopped somewhere in Šumava. “Suddenly, they asked me: ‘Do you want to take a pee?’ – ‘No, I don’t.’ I thought: ‘Yeah, right, I get off the car, you take me a few steps to the forest, you shoot me and then you say that I was shot trying to escape.’ So I never left the car. The officers swore and one tried to pull me out of the car but I didn’t let him.” He was held in detention at StB in Plzeň for a year. By then, investigators did not hit Jaroslav in interrogation anymore. They used different methods to learn what they wanted to know. Psychological pressure was first. The interrogations would take from morning to evening, six or seven days a week and the same questions were repeated over and over. The witness also suspects that the StB tried to influence him with drugs. For a period of time, interrogations took place in the afternoon instead of in the morning. He would get back to his cell late at night, long after supper. When he asked for food, he was brought a piece of bread and a mess-tin of bluish milk. “I thought the milk was thinned, but it was milk so I drank it all. They would bring it to me in the evenings after the interrogations for several days. One day, I got back from an interrogation and realized that I had been saying and answering exactly the same things that the investigator was saying, but they were not true. Then I thought that maybe they put some chemical in my milk. I started to spill it.” One day, he timed the warden checks incorrectly and a warden saw him spilling the milk. Within a few days, the evening interrogations and blue milk were over, and he was interrogated in the morning again.
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