Activities of The Czechoslovak Military Intelligence Service in Carpathian Ruthenia. Investigation Centre for Carpathian Ruthenia (Pátrací středisko pro Podkarpatskou Rus) in crisis years 1938/1939.

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60162694%3AG42__%2F26%3A00564629" target="_blank" >RIV/60162694:G42__/26:00564629 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://viv.nuou.org.ua/article/view/333937/322815" target="_blank" >https://viv.nuou.org.ua/article/view/333937/322815</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33099/2707-1383-2025-56-2-122-132" target="_blank" >10.33099/2707-1383-2025-56-2-122-132</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Activities of The Czechoslovak Military Intelligence Service in Carpathian Ruthenia. Investigation Centre for Carpathian Ruthenia (Pátrací středisko pro Podkarpatskou Rus) in crisis years 1938/1939.

Original language description

Prepared primarily on the basis of documents from the Central Military Archive – Military History Archive in Prague (Vojenský ústřední archiv – Vojenský historický archiv) and the Security Service Archive in Prague (Archiv bezpečnostních složek), the study focuses on the restructuring of the Czechoslovak mil-itary intelligence service before the World War II as the curtailed Czechoslovakia was forced to respond to changes in geopolitical situation.Intelligence activities aimed at Nazi Germany were officially prohibited and intelligence activity moved to the east of the Czechoslovakia to the region of Carpathian Ruthenia, in the direction of Poland and Hungary. Headquartered in Carpathian Ruthenia’s Svalіava (Свалява), the Investigation Centre for Carpathian Ruthenia (Pátrací středisko pro Podkarpatskou Rus) became a new element in the Czecho-slovak intelligence service restructuring, tasked with both offensive and defensive intelligence activity targeting Poland and Hungary while monitoring the internal political situation in Carpathian Ruthenia. The Investigation Centre for Carpathian Ruthenia was taken from the usual structures and was fully sub-ject to the Second (Intelligence) Department of the Military Headquarters (2. oddělení Hlavního štábu) in Prague. Staff Captain Jan Krček chaired the Investigation Centre throughout its existence (December 1938 – March 1939). In addition to him, Czechoslovak military intelligence officers Jindřich Krátký, Old-řich Vomáčka, Stanislav Vondřich and Štěpán Kareš were also stationed in Svaljava. The Investigation Centre worked in difficult conditions and ended its activities in March 1939. Czech lands were occupied by German troops. Slovakia became independent, became an ally of Nazi Germany and the Hungarian army occupied Carpathian Ruthenia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Military Historical Bulletin (Воєнно-історичний вісник)

ISSN

2707-1383

e-ISSN

2707-1391

Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

UA - UKRAINE

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

122-132

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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