Did the Czechoslovak Secret Service really seek to recruit Enoch Powell in order to influence the Boy Scout movement? No, of course not. For one thing, Powell saw through the Cold War from the start.
The only two British MPs ever known to have been on the books of any Eastern Bloc country, and in both cases it was indeed Czechoslovakia, were the conventionally Hard Right Conservative Ray Mawby, and John Stonehouse, who still has a reasonable claim to have been the most right-wing Labour MP ever, again including from the point of view that he was a dyed-in-the-wool Cold Warrior.
Did the Czechoslovak Secret Service really seek to recruit Enoch Powell in order to influence the Boy Scout movement? I ask you!
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