The Spy Who Came Back From the Dead

In 19 80, new information came to light from a second check defector that john stonehouse had been a spy. The conservative government felt the revelation was too embarrassing for the british state and decided not to pursue it further. A year after his death, the velvet revolution broke out in cheke slovakia signalling the end of the one party state. Cheker slovakia peacefully split into two countries, the check republic and the slova republic in 19 93. In two thousand and eight, researchers found hundreds of pages on stone house, including details of the information he passed to the check government. This is the third episode in our series, the spy who came back from the