14 EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 115 2018RECRUITMENT, DEFECTORS, ENTRAPMENT & DENIALS
GAMES OF THE StB
SPECIAL REPORT
Czechoslovakia’s infamous StB
(Statni Bezpecnost) Cold War spy
agency has received plenty of
attention in the media of late, this
in connection with allegations that
attempts were made to recruit a
number of Labour Party
politicians in the 1980s, including
today’s official opposition leader
Jeremy Corbyn.Far from being an isolated
incident, Eye Spy Associate
Editor PAUL BEAUMONT and
EDITORIAL delve back in time
to present details of a protracted
operation by the KGB proxy StB,
to infiltrate the highest echelons
of British society, armed forces,
political movements, unions and
its intelligence services...Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with
his deputy Tom Watsonhe Czechoslovak StB was
created in 1948, and efficiently
managed long-term agent
operations amongst émigré
Tfamilies and actively recruited
Czechoslovak expatriates. One such figure
was 42-year-old RAF Sergeant Nicholas
Prager, who served in a technical capacity in
the secretive BCDU (Bomber Command
Development Unit) engaged with work on
Project Blue Diver, the latest Electronic
Counter Measure (ECM) for Britain’s primary
nuclear deterrent - the V-Bomber Force. He
also worked on Project Red Steer at RAF
Finningley in South Yorkshire.A.V. Roe
VulcanBlue Diver operated as a UHF (ultra high
frequency) barrage noise jammer, targeting
and actively jamming Soviet radar systems
(codenamed TallKing) and had replaced the
rapidly obsolescent Green Palm, a VHF (very
high frequency) jammer. Another project, Red
Steer, worked in the microwave X Band as a
rearward looking radar for V-Bombers and
replaced Orange Putter which was also known
to have been fitted to RAF Canberras of 51
Squadron detailed for ELINT (electronicPARLIAMENT SPIES