In the footsteps of agent-walker

In the footsteps of agent-walker

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Mírov, prison Mírov, Czech Republic
At the Bank of the River Rhine the Pile Caught Fire
At the Bank of the River Rhine the Pile Caught Fire

In November 1954 Josef Čoček was sentenced to life imprisonment for his activities in American secret service MIC. Right after the hearing at a court he was escorted to Mírov prison. The conditions there were drastic which also confirm his memories for an event that happened soon after his ar…


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They want to destroy you here
They want to destroy you hereJosef Čoček

As an “agent-walker,” Josef Čoček guided people across the borders into West Germany. On one such crossing in 1954, he was arrested. He was to serve his life sentence in the Mírov in prison. He remembers the roll calls there: “There was one Matoušek there during roll call, Bimbo they called him. …


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Olomouc, remand prison Švermova 685/2, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Close To the Edge
Close To the Edge

In 1954 Josef Čoček, an agent-walker, was arrested while crossing the border. In Autumn that year he was transferred to a prison in Olomouc and right after he came there, the investigators knocked out his eight teeth during the interrogation. The constant beating and humiliation caused that t…


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Valtice, borders between Austria and Czechoslovakia 41412, 691 42 Valtice, Czech Republic
Revealed
Revealed

Josef Čoček, an agent-walker, used to secretly cross the border with Austria near Valtice for several times. He was an agent of an American secret service MIC. Between 1951 and 1953 he used to bring secret news and also helped to people, who were in danger of arrest in Czechoslovakia, to a free w…


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The route is 180 kilometres long and a car is necessary. Josef Čoček worked as an agent-walker for the American intelligence service MIC. In 1951-1953 he was successful in carrying secret messages over the border in the vicinity of Valtice and he helped several persons who were in risk of arrest to cross the border to Austria. His activity was discovered in 1954 and he was arrested by the Border Guard. After cruel interrogations in the prison in Olomouc he was given a life sentence in November 1954. He served part of his term in the Mírov prison, where he was sick with pneumonia; later he was transported to the prison in Leopoldov.
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