on 21 august 1963, otto šling and the others convicted in his trial were officially rehabilitated by the ksč and acquitted of all indictments. three years earlier, the ussr had stated publicly that an anti-state conspiracy center had never existed. in the dubček government’s commission of inquiry, václav kopecký’s report in february 1951 is labeled a “mass of fabrications, idle gossip, and irresponsible dramatics about the šling-švermová case.”