By Todd Farley New York Post
Long before Austin Powers was a randy spy, there was Karel Koecher.
Koecher was a Czechoslovakian émigré who lived in New York City from the 1960s to the ’80s. Although he spied for several competing agencies — the American CIA, the Soviet Union’s KGB, and Czechoslovakia’s StB — Koecher was most memorable as an eager participant in the East Coast’s early sex-club scene. And he was anything but under the radar.
“Koecher was a bit strange. Usually people keep their clothes on at least some of the time, but he was always walking around naked,” recalls a fellow orgy guest in “The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man” (Public Affairs, August 23rd) by Benjamin Cunningham. “And he always had an erection.”
While Koecher was an enthusiastic swinger, he was a reluctant spy. Born in 1934 near Prague, he was unhappy with Czechoslovakia’s socialist turn after World War II, and so fought against its Communist Party.
