Internationalising the intelligence history of the Prague Spring

This article examines how changing collaborations between the Czechoslovakian, Soviet, and East German intelligence services during the 1960s formed the intelligence context of responses to the Prague Spring of 1968. The author uses international history to locate the debates over the uprising among...

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Published inCold war history Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 293 - 310
Main Author Graham, Simon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.07.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Espionage
intelligence history
Intelligence services
international history
KGB
Prague Spring
Securitization
Stasi
StB
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Summary:This article examines how changing collaborations between the Czechoslovakian, Soviet, and East German intelligence services during the 1960s formed the intelligence context of responses to the Prague Spring of 1968. The author uses international history to locate the debates over the uprising among the so-called Warsaw Five throughout 1968 in much longer interplay between local and regional drives for securitisation, centred on intelligence collaborations. This leads us to a reconsideration of the centrality of intelligence collaboration in responses to the crisis and the extent to which actors beyond the borders of Czechoslovakia conditioned these responses.
ISSN:1468-2745
1743-7962
DOI:10.1080/14682745.2019.1697238