Češka, mešity, muslimové & selhání německé kontrarozvědky – Lhoťan Lukáš (2025)

Every agent must receive an indisputable legend. (…) The agent must not only learn their role but also empathize with it. They must become the person they are to represent." Training material of the Soviet counterintelligence SMERSH.

This essay on the failure of the German counterintelligence in infiltrating Muslim communities in Germany is primarily intended for students of security studies, but also for anyone interested in the issue of combating Islamic extremism, to learn from the mistakes made by the German counterintelligence. The story described in this publication begins with Czech anti-Islamists, as the agent, before becoming an agent of the German counterintelligence, was involved in anti-Islamic activities in the Czech Republic within the activist movement 'We Don't Want Islam in the Czech Republic' and through infiltrating German mosques, she reached the inner circle of the controversial German political party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany).

The prototype of this infiltration operation by the Czech anti-Islamist in German mosques was a somewhat similar operation by Czech Television called 'Infiltration – Me, a Muslim' broadcast on Czech public television in 2005.

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