Details of his infraction have never been made public but they had nothing to do with Mr. Atta, who was unknown to Czech intelligence, Mr. Kmonicek said.

Both with Czech political intelligence.

A dissatisfied Navy clerk begins handling secret documents when he is approached by secret Czech intelligence to hand over documents to them.

(Ladislav Bittman, a senior officer of Czech intelligence in the 1960s, has stated that day-to-day supervision by KGB liaison officers extended to departmental level).

Czech intelligence claimed that five months before his monstrous attack, Atta met with an Iraqi agent in Prague.

Opposition leaders in the Czech Republic have publicly called this a failure on the part of Czech intelligence.

Chris Hurran, then the M.I.6 station chief in Prague, thought he had an understanding with Czech intelligence.

Czech intelligence was flummoxed, and had to admit to the British that they had lost him.

The Czech president, Vaclav Havel, has told the White House that a report from Czech domestic intelligence of such a meeting in April 2001 could not be substantiated.

The basis for the information received by British and Czech intelligence that German troops were concentrating on the Czech border has never, so far as I know, come to light.