The Directorate for the Protection of Party and Constitutional Factors in the period of normalization (1970-1989)
Abstract
The study deals with the development of the Directorate for the Protection of Party and Constitutional Factors (Directorate V of the National Security Corps) from 1970 to 1989. The main job description of this Directorate in this period of time was not only direct physical protection, but furthermore the security of important governmental and party buildings, sanitary, toxicologic and pyrotechnic protection, safe transport of representative figures and foreign deputations.
The emphasis of the paper is particularly on the description of the organizational development of the Directorate and on the outline of the activities of its component parts. More attention is paid to the activities of the Directorate in November and December 1989 in the end of the essay.