01041nas a2200217 4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260002100043653002400064653002300088653001700111653001400128653001300142653001900155100002000174700002300194245008200217300001100299490000700310520050600317 2019 d cSummer-Fall 201910acounterintelligence10ademocratic control10aintelligence10aoversight10aSlovakia10aTransformation1 aJozef Stieranka1 aMartina Binderová00aTransformation of the State Security in the Slovak Republic from 1989 to 1992 a87-1030 v183 a

This article describes the main steps of the post-communist transition of the intelligence and counter-intelligence services of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, first to the purposes of democratization of the federal formation and then to the establishment of the respective capacity of the Slovak Republic. The authors pay particular attention to the introduction of norms and practices of parliamentary oversight of the security services in this early phase of the transformation process.