Kudibal told me many times, after he separated from his wife, that he was planning to “escape” again from Czechoslovakia and go back to live in Melbourne, Australia. He said that if we wanted, he will take my sister and me with him and that after we were in Australia, we would write a book about our experiences in a Communist country.

My father was arrested and taken away by the secret police in the fall of 1960. We did not know why he was arrested and did not know where he was until a year later at his trial. During this time we suspected that it had something to do with Kudibal, until we found at my father’s “secret” trial that it had nothing to do with Kudibal.