Jan Koura

Assistant professor at @CharlesUniPRG, researcher @USD_AV_CR
, head of @CWRGPrague, Cold War history, Czechoslovakia, secret intelligence

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

🤔 Which role did Czechoslovakia play in building Mali's security infrastructure after independence in the 1960s? More in my new article 👇👇

https://t.co/PfaLoY9xMa

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

@joseaguilar92_ Congratulations! Happy to hear that the article is already out.

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

Press release about my recently published article 🇨🇾🇨🇿

Czechoslovak Intelligence Operations in Cyprus During the Cold War https://t.co/uarOPegnFy

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

@BesenyoJ Thank you!

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

How did Czechoslovak intelligence interfere in the Cyprus conflict after 1974? Who did it recruit?🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️What were its main intelligence operations in Cyprus? These and other questions are answered in my new article ✍️👇
#spy

https://t.co/BZtWGQp5nI

[Mikuláš Pešta @MikulasPesta]

My essay on Philip Muehlenbeck's Czechoslovakia in Africa. The author has used, in my view, very unethical working method, using the archival work of two Czech historians without fully acknowledging it:
https://t.co/qRwBJKaMN8

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

@Lenocka29 Jmeno uz je davno zname https://t.co/04GpbQdGSF

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

@Lenocka29 @mysikralovna Vsechny navrhy evidujeme, dekujeme za ne. Jeste ale shromazdujeme dalsi navrhy a svedectvi. Oceneni prijdou!

[Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy @FF_CUNI]

✍️ V časopise International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence byl publikován článek „In the Shadow of the KGB: Legacy of Czechoslovak Intelligence (1948–1989)“, jehož spoluautorem je dr. @JanKoura z Ústavu světových dějin FF UK.

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

My newest article on Czechoslovak intelligence 🇨🇿🥳 It summarizes:
- its activities and most important intelligence operations
-organizational structure
- links to the KGB and other Eastern European secret services

#spyhistory #OpenAccess #Coldwar
👇👇
https://t.co/pVoAqc8T6C

[Cold War Research Network @CWR_Network]

The CWRN is proud to co-sponsor the book launch of Dr. Frank Gerits, titled The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945–1966.
https://t.co/0gFXl2FBKc
@FrankGerits

[Cold War Research Group @CWRGPrague]

CWRG co-organizes the lecture "From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe - and Back" by Prof. Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), which will take place on 16 November 2022 at 10:00 at Faculty of Arts, Charles University
https://t.co/3EbSX9VDoJ

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

@MoroccoIntel tout est décrit dans mon article https://t.co/VL6FslEVVL

[Doubravka Olsakova @Doubravkaa]

New research project #GAČR and @snsf_ch with @MikulasPesta as PI is looking for new colleagues!!!
@USD_AV_CR @Akademie_ved_CR
#research #ScienceJobs

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

🥳🥳New article on Eastern Bloc interference in the decolonisation of British Guiana has just been published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Thanks to @rawatersjr for cooperation!

#spyhistory #twitterstorians

https://t.co/osTGUM21gz

[Mikuláš Pešta @MikulasPesta]

The workshop "The Socialist Countries and the Third World: Recent Approaches and New Perspectives" is finished and it was amazing! Organized by @CWRGPrague and Constantin Katsakioris
@ericburton227 @matek_g @JanKoura

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

Work in PRAAD archive on Czechoslovak experts in Ghana 🇨���🇬🇭

[Przemysław Gasztold @PGasztold]

Thank you all for coming to our panel about Eastern European intelligence services and the Global South at @BASEES conference in Cambridge, and thanks @nat_telepneva, @JanKoura, @KseniaWes, @MikulasPesta for a fascinating discussion!

[Przemysław Gasztold @PGasztold]

Paraphrasing Lenin: Communists will even sell us AK-47 which we will use to kill them. Happy to share my paper on how the CIA used arms dealers to purchase Polish weapons which was sent to Contras and Afghan mujahideen in the mid 80s. 50 free copies /DM:
https://t.co/kS0i2Syw7o

[Jan Koura @JanKoura]

Another story that came to light during my research on Mehdi Ben Barka and his collaboration with Czechoslovak intelligence. More details in my INS article published in 2020 https://t.co/g3MZhjQAIf and @lobs 👇

[Le Nouvel Obs @Le_NouvelObs]

🔎 L'historien @JanKoura est tombé par hasard sur le dossier de l'agent "Pipa" dans les archives des services secrets tchécoslovaques, et l'a confié à @lobs. Nous avons ainsi pu retracer l'histoire incroyable de Jean Clémentin, l'#EspionDuCanard 👉 https://t.co/p9sthQB1FM