Prague, Nov 6 (CTK) - The planned US radar base in the Brdy military district has not yet been put up, and it already attracts foreign spies, it ensues from the Military Intelligence's (VOZ) 2006 annual report, Lidove noviny (LN) reported Tuesday.

Andor Sandor, former head of the military intelligence, told the paper this is no surprising information.

He said the plans "could not escape Russia's attention. I suppose that information is also sought by agents from other post-Soviet republics and also from the states against which the radar is to be directed," Sandor said.

Iran and North Kroea are the most frequently mentioned countries in this connection.

The radar base together with a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland are to be elements of the U.S. missile shield.

The Czech government is to make the final decision on the radar base by early next year. A majority of Czechs are opposed to the project.

Sandor said that besides "official" spies, such as those working under the legal diplomatic cover, there are also "illegals," who pose as businessmen, students and journalists.

VOZ also engages in the radar base case, but in the opposite direction. It mainly checks military risks abroad that the possible radar base could cause to the Czech Republic.

"The development and production programmes of the Russian defence industry and the acquisition programmes of the Russian armed forces were monitored," LN quotes from the VOZ document.

Czech agents also focus on Iran and North Korea, the paper writes.

It says that according to the VOZ report, agents also shadowed Czech soldiers in the KFOR mission in Kosovo last year.

The report says the soldiers were mainly warned that their phones and walkie-talkies may be wiretapped.

Sandor told LN that locals may be behind this. "They know very well when, where and which part of the unit went and what it is looking for. How would it be possible otherwise that in a country where everyone has a weapon, almost nothing is found in raids," he is quoted as saying.

The report also mentions another three regions that are critical for the Czech Republic's security. They are the Middle East, Afghanistan and the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Further security risks are terrorism, mass destruction weapons proliferation and penetration of extremism to the armed forces, LN writes.