English Translation

4a, the counter-spionage is in the future also the task of the security police and the SD. The services of military defense, security police, and SD will work together with confidence to achieve the common goal - especially where they overlap their fields of responsibility - and exchange their messages. The Ausland/Abwehr Office and the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reichsicherungsamt) provide each other with play material to mislead the opponent and to maintain the counter-spionage connections. 6.) a) The precautionary protection against military spying, betrayal and sabotage in such enterprises, which are entrusted with domestic productions, is the task of military defense. In addition, the military defense service could also be responsible for those companies which are of particular importance for the interests of the Wehrmacht. For these tasks, the defence officers employed in the protected enterprises are responsible for the defence and are bound by their instructions. In the context of its entire task, the fight against the enemies of the Reich and of the state (composition, sabotage, installation of plants) is the task of the enterprises used for these tasks.