In February 1948 the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seized power. Three days later Boček ordered Janoušek, Brig Gen Alois Liška and military intelligence chief Gen František Moravec to take leave "for health reasons" pending a final decision about their future. In March Gen Šimon Drgáč personally told Janoušek there was no place for him under the Communist régime. Janoušek applied for a job at the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, for which he had helped to lay the foundations at the 1944 Chicago conference. Dr Josef Dubský at the ICAO offered him a job, but Bedřich Reicin at the OBZ refused to let Janoušek leave Czechoslovakia.