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From the “Adršpach” Mountains 1999

Winter Graphics 1983

Hoarfrost in the “Jizerské” Mountains 2004

Some thumbnails of his photographic work here, but the enlargements have disappeared from that auction site now. If you click the thumbnails above, they will reveal the enlargements, however.

If you google his name, you come across an amazing story of a man with exactly the same name, who used to be a bedroom spy for the Czech secret police back in the day, and he preyed (with great success, it seems) on the buttoned up secretaries and legation wives at the British embassy.
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Soviet spy seduced girls in British embassy
A Soviet spy, who employed his skills of seduction to gather secrets, infiltrated Britain’s embassy in Prague.
The agent, codenamed Victor, was recruited by the Czech StB secret police in 1959 after they spotted his charisma.
Once trained, the spy, whose real name was Jiri Bartos, was unleashed on lonely secretaries at the embassy where he was activated as a “social agent”.
“His job was to seduce the girls at the embassy and the wives of delegation staff. He was supposed to be in love with them and he was very successful.”

The revelation comes as the Czech Republic opens its huge Cold War archive.

Here’s the source of that story and many more like it. It certainly makes me wonder what his “training” consisted of….

Come to think of it, I remember a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 about six months ago that related this very story from the point of view of the women involved, as first person statements.