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(From The Slovak Spectator)
News item: National Memory Institute admits it has no idea of the whereabouts of several classified files on former StB communist secret service agents, and says the former head of the Institute, Jan LangoS, was accustomed to remove files for his personal inspection without signing them out.
The memory of the nation without the instituteBy Marian LeSko An unbiased observer might until recently have had the impression that the National Memory Institute [which is in charge of exploring Slovakias communist and fascist past and administering files regarding that past ed.
note] guarded nothing as closely as the original copies of its files, and protected nothing so tightly as access to them.
Today it is clear that this impression was mistaken.
In the well-known conflict over the signature on the file of Agent Lotos, the Institute and its director refused to hand the file over to the police, and would not even allow experts to examine the signature to determine whether it was genuine.
The Institutes position that the law did not allow it to "make compromises" could have evoked respect, until it became clear that within the Institute itself, documents were handled in a far more cavalier fashion.
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