Vítězslav Nohejl

* 1927

  • "I never counted it. They gave it to me, they gave me the wooden board. And then I changed it in different ways, in different places, so that somebody wouldn't accidentally follow it. Maybe somebody could see that I put something there. That's how it was watched. So I put it in a different place each time. But smart, so they wouldn't find out. And they didn't. And concerning that, if I met the guy who was in charge of me, we would meet at the Valdek café. Well, and I always told him everything, like 'good, it's all going well'. They had good news, so they even thanked me for working there. Well, I kept going as long as I was there."

  • "So I've been putting it in different sensitive places on different visits. When there were visits of foreigners and our own, and just almost every visit, when it wasn't a well-known visit of those ambassadors. Well, and it was put in different ways so that it would not be affected by a bang or a kick, so that it would be... It was a normal wooden board, I used to put that under the chairs, under the piano, under the bookcase, under the table. It's, it was all sorts of things, it had a magnet and I didn't really trust that. Because there was banging on the table, shuffling the chair, so that it wouldn't break off and fall down. That would certainly be investigated. And by that I might have been dropped in it, well, I don't know."

  • "I didn't like a lot of things at that time. And the Danes were a capitalist nation. And I knew I was working in an embassy, but a capitalist embassy. And I was brought up in the spirit of the communist. Masaryk and Beneš less so, because my father didn't like Beneš very much. Because he didn't follow in the same footsteps as Masaryk. All right, but otherwise I survived it all, as they say. I didn't join any party, I wasn't a communist."

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Being Czech meant respecting the regime

Vítězslav Nohejl, 1973
Vítězslav Nohejl, 1973
zdroj: Security Services Archive (ABS), archive file No.: SL-2143, p. 26

Vítězslav Nohejl was born on 12 November 1927 in Prague, the youngest of three siblings in a family of a worker and a maid. During the war, he trained as a cook and did his apprenticeship in prominent Prague hotels such as Zlatá Husa and Paříž. Here he also experienced the harsh treatment of Czechs by high-ranking German officers. At the end of the war, he brought food to people deployed on the barricades. After the war, he worked as a cook and manager of various holiday resorts and mountain cottages. In 1971 he joined the residence of the Danish ambassador Möller in Prague as a cook. From 1975 he actively cooperated with State Security (StB) and placed operational eavesdropping equipment at the Danish embassy until his departure in 1984. After the end of Ambassador Möller‘s diplomatic service in Czechoslovakia, he was transferred to the GDR, where he regularly visited the ambassador‘s wife, Ursula Möller, and took care of her skin with a hand-made herbal cream. She was connected to the Czechoslovak dissent and Vítězslav Nohejl was apúponited to follow her as part of the State Security Beneda I operation. In the ambassador‘s residence in Berlin, he carried out tasks assigned by the State Security. In 2023, Vítězslav Nohejl was living in Bechyně.