Josef Frolík
Josef Frolík (September 22, 1928 – May 1989) was a
CIA
.
Childhood
Josef Frolík was born in Libušín, Czechoslovakia. He graduated from secondary school at the end of World War II. After the war he studied at the business academy in Slaný and worked as an accountant for the state-owned communist newspaper Rudé právo.[1]
Secret Service
Whilst serving his mandatory two years service in the
embassy
. He was recalled back to Czechoslovakia and in 1969 he managed to gather as many state secrets as he could and escaped to the west, defecting to the CIA.
Emigration
After defecting to the West, he wrote a book in which he recalled his life and work for the StB and detailed his defection. The Czechoslovak government sentenced him to death in absentia. In 1987, he was diagnosed with cancer and died in May 1989.
External links
References
- ISBN 978-1-929631-75-9.
Sources
- Frolik, Joseph (1975). The Frolik Defection - The Memoirs of an Intelligence Agent. Corgi Books. ISBN 0-552-10056-0.
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