Havel Says Secret Police Tried to Recruit Him
Reuters
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia —
President Vaclav Havel said Sunday that the Communist secret police tried to recruit him in the 1950s but gave up after three months.
His remarks were an apparent reaction to the recent naming of journalists and other public figures as agents and informers of the once-dreaded secret police. The former leading dissident said he decided to declassify his own file.
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