Slovakian court dismisses Andrej Babiš claim he was wrongly identified as a former agentOnly the fear of being unmasked as a collaborator seemed to cloud the businessman’s horizon as he signed up as an informer for communist Czechoslovakia’s secret police in jarringly jovial environment.
Over generous refreshments during a 90-minute assembly in a Bratislava wine bar on 11 November 1982,the agent soon to be known as Bureš was asked to report what associates were saying approximately the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, whose death the previous day threatened to shake the communist world and the east-west cold war confrontation to the core.
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Source: guardian.co.uk