COVENTRY MP Geoffrey Robinson says national newspaper allegations he was a Cold War spy for communist Czechoslovakia are ‘highly defamatory and false’.
Yesterday’s Mail on Sunday front page claims to have unearthed Czech government documents that show the veteran Coventry North West MP shared confidential UK intelligence files with ‘the enemy state’ in the late 1960s.
The 390-pages of files are said to reveal Mr Robinson shared information about Britain’s nuclear deterrent and a missile programme in exchange for gifts.
A spokesperson for Mr Robinson said: “These allegations are highly defamatory and false and Mr Robinson strongly refutes them.
“The allegations, which are apparently based on documents put together by Czech authorities in the 1960s, are a complete fabrication.
“The translation of the only document that Mr Robinson has been shown, a partial document dated February 19, 1974, does not support the claims.
“It describes him as ‘concurrently a secretary to the minister of defence.. Mr Healy’. He was never a secretary to Mr Healy.
“At the end of the document, it states ‘these moments were neither proven nor clarified’ so even on its face this document is not proof that such activity took place.
“The allegations allegedly made by the Czech authorities are a lie.
“At no time did Mr Robinson ever pass confidential government documents or information to any foreign agent and he did not have access to such material.”
The Mail on Sunday also links the former minister under Tony Blair to the KGB – the Russian’s state security network.
The paper alleges the files show Mr Robinson met with a Czech agent on numerous occasions in the late 1960s.
Communist rule lasted in Czechoslovakia from 1948 until the ‘velvet revolution’ of 1989, after mass demonstrations led to resignations of the party’s leadership.
