-Caveat Lector- Slovak Security Boss Details Subversion Plan Reuters 18-FEB-99 BRATISLAVA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The new head of Slovakia's state security service (SIS) has disclosed massive abuses of power by the agency under former Premier Vladimir Meciar, the daily newspaper SME reported on Thursday The abuses included plans to encourage neo-fascist movements in the neighbouring Czech Republic, the paper said in a report on details of a speech delivered by SIS boss Vladimir Mitro to a closed session of parliament last week. The official version of the speech has not yet been released and no one at the SIS would comment on Thursday. Meciar's government, which was defeated at an election last September, was widely criticised at home and abroad for backsliding on post-communist democratic reforms. According to SME, Mitro accused the SIS under Meciar of attempting to blacken neighbouring Hungary's name in the region and to sow distrust between Austria and Germany. In the reported speech, he detailed the names of individuals and organisations monitored by the SIS at home, including church officials, a former defence minister, the head of the army, Meciar's coalition partners and opposition parties, and President Michal Kovac, who was Meciar's highest ranking political opponent. Mitro also alleged, according to the paper, that the SIS carried out the kidnapping of Kovac's son in 1995 and planned a campaign to persuade citizens that Slovakia should fall back under the Russian sphere of influence. But his most sensational allegations centred on bids to incite racial hatred against the Czech Republic's gypsy minority. "Within operation Dezo, active measures were supposed to be implemented to launch a neo-fascist campaign, racist feelings and an exacerbation of the gypsy question among citizens of the Czech Republic in order to prevent this country's accession into euroatlantic integration structures," he was quoted as saying. The Czech security services (BIS) said on Thursday they could not comment on the accusations but said official contacts between the BIS and SIS were all but non-existent during that period. "That was because of the activities of the SIS and the climate within which it was operating," a BIS statement said without elaborating. On other points raised in the speech, It was not clear what the SIS hoped to achieve in souring relations between Germany and Austria. But already strained relations between Hungary and the Czech Republic did worsen in the latter part of Meciar's rule as Slovakia was dropped from the first wave of Nato and European Union accession hopefuls because of concerns the government was becoming increasingly athoritarian and undemocratic. The new reform-minded Slovak government has pledged to seek closer ties with the West, improve relations with its neighbours and re-democratise Slovak society. 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