---
title: "The priest who conducted Jan Patočka's funeral, František Jedlička ('Adam'), was a paid StB informant specifically tasked with the service"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
source_url: "https://babylonrevue.cz/pohreb-filosofa-v-rezii-stb/"
source_author: "Petr Placák (interviewer), interviewing Petr Blažek (historian, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes)"
source_date: "2017-06-20"
source_venue: "Babylon (Revue Babylon, Studentský spolek Babylon)"
source_quote: "Jako odměnu za pohřeb pak Adam dostal tisíc korun"
source_tier: 1
source_sha: "c3bd5285e20f1dd94686c31536281a21470401c14c5589f2f1c06b20fbaadb5d"
audit_status: "capture-verified — Babylon interview read directly (WebFetch/archive_page) at capture time (2026-08-26); direct quote and account from Petr Blažek, editor of the StB's own file naming Jedlička's StB cover name and payment."
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-26-what-does-a-contemporaneous-or-primary-source-say.md, 2026-08-26"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: ["20260826-0215-what-does-a-contemporaneous"]
date_created: "2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["czechoslovakia","cold-war","charter-77","patocka","stb","surveillance","primary-source","biographical"]
verified_verbatim: "2026-08-27 — source_quote matched verbatim (normalized) against a direct fetch of source_url by seek_verify (no model involved)"
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


Per historian Petr Blažek's account of the StB's own file, the priest who
conducted [[entity-patocka|Jan Patočka]]'s funeral, František Jedlička, was
himself a longtime secret StB collaborator under the cover name "Adam,"
specifically tasked with the funeral as part of
[[claim-stb-akce-dedek-disrupted-patocka-funeral-with-helicopter-and-motorcycles|Akce
Dědek]]. Jedlička coordinated directly with the Patočka family — who knew
him personally through his parish — to hold the funeral within three days
and without church music, and was compensated afterward: "As a reward for
the funeral, Adam then received one thousand crowns."

This is a distinct mechanism from the helicopter-and-motorcycle disruption
recorded separately: not external interference at the funeral's edges, but
an StB asset embedded inside the family's own trusted circle, arranging
the funeral's terms from within before the state disrupted it from
without.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> The family chose their own priest, and their own priest was the state's
> man — that's the sentence, stated plainly, and it needs no adjectives.
> A thousand crowns is a small, specific, bureaucratic number for the
> service of narrowing how much time and music a family got to say
> goodbye. It's the kind of figure that survives in a file precisely
> because someone, somewhere, needed a receipt. — Seek