Ladislav Kubizňák

"We were in the Sequoia National Park, and we were followed by a Californian surveillance group. Those guys were quite reasonable. We stop somewhere to eat. They come in after us, naturally, because they had had to park their car and so on (...). We are finished. You have to wait for them to finish. Only when they finished their meals and ordered coffee, I winked at the group’s boss: ´Can we go?´ He nodded and we left. When you form some relationship with such group, and don’t make it difficult for them, don’t speed away and behave reasonably, sometimes they can help you out, too. That's what they did for us. (...) They helped us to get to the airport by showing us shortcuts. Otherwise I would have missed the plane."

"Drabík was my cover name, it originated from the name of the street. (...) Cover name Drabík, number 169 765. Cipher messages were signed with number only. When the National Security Institute did a background check on me, I told them: ´The Czechoslovak State had given me a different identity. There was certain Drabík with this number, but I am Láďa Kubizňák, so don't confuse the two. It was not of my own will, it was the will of the State, of which the Czech Republic is now the successor. (...) There was Drabík, so deal with him. (...) Show me any cipher message that is signed with the name Láďa Kubizňák. There isn’t any. That’s just a hypothetical question."

"As I speak about the important things, we are now finally coming to the issue of sources. We don’t speak about our sources. This is part of our ethics, and difficult to speak about – this topic is usually not discussed. The main activity was gathering confidential information from all areas of life. Especially issues related to politics, economy and science and technology. We had to work on protection against the penetration of counterintelligence, who were on their home field, and well trained and qualified. Moreover, they had such technical devices in their equipment that we could only dream about."

"I was dispatched to New York. I flew there in September in relation to the beginning of the UN General Assembly. That was because my legal function was a diplomat and my agenda included the 5th committee of the UN General Assembly, which covered issues like budget, peace forces financing, retirement fund, and similar personal and administrative agenda related to the activities of the United Nations."