Labour MPs paid ‘£1,000 to £10,000 to meet communist spies’ at Cold War height
Czech spy Jan Sarkocy claims at least 15 senior figures from the Jeremy Corbyn-led party shared information with Eastern bloc agents
LABOUR MPs were paid between £1,000 to £10,000 to meet communist spies at the height of the Cold War, it was claimed last night.
Czech spy Jan Sarkocy said at least 15 senior Labour figures shared information with Eastern bloc agents.
He alleged: “They were greedy. They wanted big money.
“My salary was £750 a month, which was good for the time.
“But they wanted the big bucks for helping us.”
Sarkocy has already claimed he met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn four times between 1986 and 1988 before being booted out of Britain by PM Margaret Thatcher in 1989.
He says Mr Corbyn, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone all received cash.
Mr Corbyn denies being paid and said he had believed Sarkocy was a diplomat.
Mr Livingston and a spokesman for Mr McDonnell said the claims are false.
Meanwhile Tory MP David Morris called on the powerful Foreign Affairs committee to investigate the allegations.
They came after The Sun uncovered secret files held in the archives of the Czechoslovak secret police, the StB.
A second file on Mr Corbyn is in the archives of the former East German secret police, the Stasi, and can be released only with his agreement.
Mr Morris said: “It is now vital the Labour leader is questioned about his links to brutal Soviet Bloc countries trying to undermine Britain.”
His call is backed by a signed by more than 3,000 people.
It states: “The public have the right to full disclosure over Corbyn’s connections to Communist spy agencies.”
Svetlana Ptacknikova, head of the Czech archives, said Mr Corbyn, given the code name COB, had shown a certain type of naivete.”
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