Úřad pro zahraniční styky a informace
Logo of the ÚZSI with the motto sine ira et studio
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Headquarters of ÚZSI in Prague- Kobylisy
The Úřad pro zahraniční styky a informace ( ÚZSI ; German Office for Foreign Relations and Information ) is the civilian Czech foreign intelligence service that was newly formed in 1993 . From 1990 to 1993 the ÚZSI was already an institution of the federal Czechoslovakia , which was rebuilt after the dissolution of the communist secret service StB . The ÚSZI is subordinate to the Czech Ministry of the Interior and is based in Kobylisy in the Prague 8 district .
The domestic secret service, which is also under the Ministry of the Interior, is called Bezpečnostní informační služba (BIS).
Directors
- Oldřich Černý (1994–1998)
- Petr Zeman (1998-2001)
- František Bublan (2001-2004)
- Karel Randák (2004-2006)
- Jiří Lang (2006-2007)
- Ivo Schwarz (2007-2014)
- Jiří Šašek (since 2014)
literature
- Milan Churaň: Encyclopedie špionáže . Prague 2000
- Helmut Roewer , Stefan Schäfer, Matthias Uhl : Lexicon of the secret services in the 20th century . Herbig Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2317-9 .
Web links
Commons : Úřad pro zahraniční styky a informace - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Homepage of the ÚZSI (Czech, English)