Eye Spy - May 2018

18 EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 115 2018

Raymond Mawby

A signed receipt by Mawby for £100 showing payment by the StB

British politician Raymond Mawby pro-

vided the StB and KGB with a series of

documents showing the floor plan of the

Prime Minister’s office at 10 Downing

Street. The documents were discovered

in the StB archive in 2012

Intelligence

windfall - Moscow

secured intimate

details of inside

Downing Street

risen to Minister of State for Technology. Two
years later the spy stories started to surface.

To summarise, a cursory examination of
historical archive papers lists dozens of
politicians with alleged links to Moscow,
including right-leaning figures. One such
person was Conservative politician Ray
Mawby.

In files contained in the StB Archive in the
Czech Republic, (released in 2012 - see Eye
Spy 80), Mawby is identified as agent LAVAL
who operated throughout the Cold War. These
proved he was an agent and documents even
show receipts of payments. Amongst
intelligence ‘gems’ provided to the StB, floor

Prime Minister

Edward Heath

• target of the
  StB

© ALLEN WARREN

convicted and jailed for 10-years. At his trial,

one of those who testified against him was

Stella Rimington, she would become the first

female Director-General of MI5.

Released in 1993, Van Haarlem returned to a

very different Prague to the one he had left.

The StB he had worked for so effectively, had

been dissolved and a new State controlled

security bureau - UOUD (Urad pro Ochranu

Ustavy a Demokracie) had replaced it.

Van Haarlem, according to misleading

snippets filtered to the media by MI5, had

plans of Downing Street. And interestingly,

there is nothing in MI5 material to suggest

they knew of his covert role.

PROMINENT TARGETS AND ENTRAPMENT

One of the more cavalier operations planned

by the StB, was the entrapment of the

prominent Conservative politician Edward

Heath, who would rise to become Prime

Minister.

Heath was unmarried and a plan was

constructed to lure him to Czechoslovakia

after a ‘constructed’ meeting with a fellow

musician, who like Heath, had a love of

classic organ music. That StB musician was

Professor Reinberger. At a recital in London,

Heath met the professor and was offered the

chance of playing the classical organ at the

Church of St James in Prague. Although he

accepted the offer, it is believed MI5 warned

him not to attend since the professor was

believed to be bisexual and chosen specially

for the meeting.

END DAYS OF THE STB IN BRITAIN

Another StB agent was arrested in Britain as

late as April 1988, as he received a Morse

message on a receiver in his north London

apartment. Ever the true professional, ‘Erwin

van Haarlem’, an ‘art dealer’, refused to reveal

his real name - Vaclav Jelinek, but was