Jiří Brabec

"As for the military part, there was a military garrison of about a hundred people who were stationed there, so they guarded everything there. And they guarded both the civilian part and the secret part. The secret part was on the side where there is nothing today, only one building, there are fields. It is to the right of you as you drive away from Litomyšl. There was a forest of antennas and it was really a jammer for the international broadcasting of Free Europe. Few people know that it was a jammer for countries other than Czechia. The Czech Republic was jammed, as I learned, from Hungary and the Soviet Union, somewhere in Ukraine. This was given by the physical properties of the propagation of those waves. So the transmitter for Czechoslovakia of Free Europe was in Spain, and those waves propagated in some leaps by reflection from the ionosphere. That wave from us joined that wave for the Soviet Union. to have a certain impact. The interference is not immediately strongest in the place of the transmitter, but it continues to act. This is also due to the direction of the antennas. For it to be most effective, it must be elsewhere than where [the radio] is to operate.”

"I know, of course, the telephone lines were monitored, under surveillance. In retrospect, I learned that they immediately had all the information about us in Svitavy at the StB department, all the cards from us and all the data. So they were watching us, but I don't think there was an order from anywhere to take any action. If there were, they would execute it. They knew everything about us, but the order did not come. And we more or less felt a little fearless by the fact that we were already publicly known and that we were already rescuable if something were to happen. But it could, of course, turn into repressions, as we can see in various other countries, but probably none of us have thought about it. Personally, I cannot say I was afraid. "