Chapter Twenty-Four: Granitnyy“Odessa was a big gain for us, Patrick, one of the best, but Granitnyy was the breakthrough moment for me. As I progressed through the Czechoslovakian civil police, so my contacts in the StB grew larger and, more importantly, I got close to military intelligence here in London. Dickie was my Control and apart from my brother, whom I never heard from, the only one I knew in England. Our exchange of intelligence was difficult but not impossible. I had police business beyond the Czech border, in Poland, East Germany and, on very special occasions, in Austria.
“There were three murders committed in Prague in 1976 and one of the suspects escaped across the border with Austria, which meant I went to Vienna to liaise with the police there, who had a similar situatio
