Central European national historyEuropean Cultural and National IdentityCentral European and Russian historical studies

Milan Vyhlídal

2026.1.1Vojenska Historia

DOI: 10.69809/vojhist.2026.30.1.3

Abstract

Hungarian Espionage Against Czechoslovakia: The Case of Staff Captain Vilém Tikal (1895–1936). This study examines in detail the discovery and investigation of an espionage case invol ving Staff Captain of Vilém Tikal (1895–1936), an officer assigned to the Provincial Military Command in Prague. Within a broader context, the article also describes the offensive intelli gence operations conducted against Czechoslovakia in the 1930s by Hungarian military inte lligence via a specialised outstation in Vienna. The article draws primarily on archival sources from the Archive of the Security Services in Prague (ABS), the National Archive in Prague (NA), the Military Historical Archive in Bratislava (VHA), and the Military Central Archive Military Historical Archive in Prague (VÚA–VHA). Keywords: Vilém Tikal (1895–1936); espionage; military; 2nd Department of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defence; Czechoslovak Army.

Citation format

VYHLÍDAL, Milan. Maďarská špionáž proti československu. kauza škpt. int. viléma tikala (1895 – 1936). Vojenska Historia, 2026, 30(1): 37–62.