The names of nine Cypriots, working as agents of the secret service of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) in Cyprus, at the height of the Cold War, in the seventies and eighties were revealed in a report in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.
The agents, also referred to as ‘collaborators’, included a former education minister, a long-serving secretary of two presidents, an Akel deputy and a high