Michael Everett wrote:...and now it's getting worse.
Recently declassified documents from Czechoslovakia have revealed that on several occasions, Corbyn met a "Czechoslovakian Political Aide" to swap (thankfully) non-secret but useful background info.
Yep, you guessed it. The chap was a spy for the-then Communist Regime, a spy who had been chucked out of the UK by Margaret Thatcher's government for
being a spy.
And Corbyn insists that he had no idea he was meeting anything other than a bureaucrat.
If he's telling the truth, then he has to be one of the most naive people EVER!
I'm not all all impressed with Corbyn, but that's garbage.
This Czeck 'spy' also claimed "that Corbyn told him “what Mrs Thatcher would have for breakfast, lunch and dinner” and that Czechoslovakia was responsible for funding Live Aid."
DOH! reliable source or what!!
Here's a bit more of a balanced statement of the facts.
Communist-era files from the intelligence agency of Czechoslovakia provide no evidence that Jeremy Corbyn was ever a spy or agent of influence, experts and academic researchers who have reviewed the papers said on Tuesday.
Radek Schovánek, an analyst with the defence ministry of the Czech Republic – which emerged, along with Slovakia, from the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993 – has spent 25 years researching documents filed by the now-defunct spy service. He told the Guardian the suspicions against Corbyn were unfounded, and the claims of Ján Sarkocy, a former intelligence officer expelled from Britain in 1989, to have signed the Labour leader up were false.
Schovánek also poured scorn on Sarkocy’s boast that he used 10 to 15 other Labour politicians in the 1980s as sources, including the current shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, and Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London.
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“They’ve found a former Czechoslovakian spy whose claims are increasingly wild and entirely false,” he said.
Sarkocy met with Corbyn in the 1980s in the House of Commons. In recent days, Sarkocy has claimed Corbyn was a paid informant of the StB, the Czechoslovakian security service. He also alleges other senior Labour figures were paid between £1,000 and £15,000 for information.
Schovánek said Sarkocy’s assertions were at odds with the security files, which represented the definitive record on agents and contacts, and made no reference to Corbyn as a recruited agent, or to McDonnell or Livingstone.
Asked if he was calling the ex-intelligence officer, now living near the Slovakian capital Bratislava, a liar, Schovánek said: “When you compare the documents which he had written and signed himself with what he is saying today, based on that he is a liar. He signed a list of documents in the UK which said Corbyn was an intelligence contact, not an agent.”
The term “intelligence contact” in reality meant little, Schovánek said. Czechoslovakian intelligence officers could have many such contacts, who provided little, if any information.
Schovánek, 54, who secretly smuggled banned books from the west into Czechoslovakia during the cold war, said he felt compelled to speak out on Corbyn’s behalf, despite strongly disagreeing with the Labour leader’s leftwing politics. “I personally don’t like Corbyn. I’m Roman Catholic and conservative, but I think we have to defend people against a lie,” he said.