Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 199 Tho world Cia thanks cold War czech spies by Dean Murphy ids Angeles times czech Republic he Entrance to Martin Kovas apart ment building is difficult to the foggy Glass doors keep by from gazing but her name appears plainly on the Doorbell second from the Bottom in a column of yet when new York attorney Lawrence Molnar came searching for Martin ova shortly after the fall of he walked by the six Storey building blackened by years of chimneys spewing soot into the wintry Prague sky three times before ringing the it was really a matter of getting up enough courage to Molnar i was expecting the worst possible reaction my Best friends widow cry you ruined my husband Molnar and Martin ova met again yesterday at the just across the River from their anxious encounter seven years this Molnar expected Only appreciation from Martin ova and for his the easing from his science of the torment of nearly half a Century of in an unusual private gathering in the embassy peach room Early a Cia official presented mar Tinkova and three other czechs with medals and each for espionage work or their loved carried out behind the Iron curtain during the coldest years of the cold j a czech emigre turned Cia recruited untold numbers of collaborators in the Early Many from among friends and classmates in an anti communist underground organization at the Charles with his wife on a month in l on room Prague but the medal is the real i Ean hand it Down to my so he will know his father took part in thing to most of their chief was known As or Nars undercover and in the name of czechoslovak patriotism and they set out 1 can hand it Down to my son9 University Law school in the All of them paid dearly for their agreed to Only with a handshake until none got As much As a thank 1 would be insincere if 1 didst say the Money will be said Milan who spent nearly nine years in prison and now lives to defeat the Young spies attempted to steal a Topo theline soviet m1g1s fighter glean classified data on Eastern bloc nuclear installations and smuggle to the West Industrial and military secrets by Means of a Clandestine radio Many were hastily trained in the cloak and techniques of the using dead letter writing with Ible assuming false deciphering sets ret codes and finding shelter in Safe As University they wanted to change the said Blanka whose late spent six years in prison for arranging hideouts for Molnar and but unlike the popular novels and films that glamorized the surreptitious world of cold War these Short lived missions were mostly As amateurish As they were by most Mea Holubs flock failed and while Molnar managed to escape to the United the others were rounded convicted of treason and condemned to lives of misery by the authorities they had so wilfully Molnar says he was sentenced to death in but unlike his for Saken it was a Fate he never had to it was a very difficult life his nerves and general health were very Mueh undermined11 said of her Zdenek mar a would be lawyer who died in 1984 after years of working in heavy construction and perilous uranium me spent More than nine years in prison before receiving amnesty in the Early the Cia is saying nothing pub Liely about yesterdays but John a Miami lawyer who represents the erstwhile spies and their characterized the event As the most Farre Aeh ing acknowledgement by the Agency of botched operations in the Eastern bloc since the 1960 Downing of u2 Pilot Francis Gary with the cold War and the czech Republic last week invited to join Mattes said the Cia has unprecedented latitude to confront the Issue of communist Era Collano most of whom were never paid for their services let alone Given any special Boneless Centre Cut pork loin pork shoulder butt oms 4 Bartlett product of Usa 5 seedless i rapes product of Usa Tail removed its prepared fresh in our Deli country vegetable Apple Crumb pie inner prices in effect until duly Henderson Hwy t monday Friday saturday St 1783 Plessis Road Al Devonshire ran Seona 8q am 11 is saturday Loo Dakota at Warde sunday ;