Ing. Karel Funk

"We mostly passed on the materials in the college script folders. When the first public copier in Vodičkova Street was in Prague around 1970, which was a boom of technology, I immediately went to the copier. First, I watched how it was working, and the young lady took an ID card and made a note of all the details - what and how many times was being copied. So, I wrote the title on the material which I needed to copy. I wrote it on a typewriter, for example History of the International Workers' Movement, and inside there was what I needed. For example, a letter from Václav Havel to Husák. So, it was also a bit risky if the young lady flipped through it, she would have known, but she was a young girl about eighteen years old who was only writing data mechanically, so I gradually lost my fear and I also copied a lot here."

"Home searches could have been without any confirmation at that time. It was quite normal back than that whoever was a suspect, the State Security came into their house and turned it over. And so the very next day we collected everything that was suspicious, all of our copies. We packed them in plastic bags, I dug a pit in the garden about two meters long. It was such a tomb. We put the bags in a tin washtub. We put the tin washtub in the dug pit. Then we put a foil preventing it from moisture over it. Then we put a plate on the top, so that the mice or moles would not bite it and covered the surface with clay and turf so that it could not be seen. So, I was happy with the shelter. Just a few days later, my mother said, 'Come and look in the corner of the garden, there is some rumble, what could be there?' And because my parents were, as I say, frightened and could go and even report on themselves, they were not allowed to know. So, I said to my mother, 'Well, the bunker is buried there, you better not go there.' Well, in about a year we said to each other that the comrades probably won't come for the search anymore, so we took it all out beautifully intact and we worked on it nicely again."