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h Nassenstein Lisbon, 17.2.44 YES 19380 Dear R o b e r t ! Thank you very much for your lines of 28.l., which reached me as before, closed. Unfortunately, I accept from your letter that my mail to you is always in open condition; can you tell by a letter or censorship note who is the opening point? At least the opening of the official post office is open; on my part, I will send the post to you via the attaché group of the chief of the security police. It is self-evident that I have to attach the post office to the courier bag of the deserted office, but the guarantee is given that no foreign German authorities will take notice. 1. -- Again & czech newspapers that arrived here yesterday with the steamer. The procurement of the same becomes more and more difficult due to the sharp USA defense measures, §ber SS-Obergruppenführer Frank places importance on the procurement, I am still happy to strive. The Haurpt thing is that for our counter-propaganda material has to be extracted. In this context, you may be interested in a report that I gave a week ago to the RSlA-VI, according to which Penesch pledged himself in his contract with Moscow, within a short period of time in the territory of former Czechoslovakia an organized partisan war and sabotage act greater scope against defense-important enterprises uaszuloesen (the example of Yugoslavia was mentioned); if Benesch did not fulfil the commitments received within this short (I do not know) period, the contract concluded was null and void. Benesch, for his part, was eager to launch the action before April. -- I received this message from a reliable VM who had heard it from a Polish diplomat who had just come here from London. e You can therefore prepare yourself for a dance in Baelde.-- The accompanying list contains the missing protectorate values according to Michel-Norn; maybe you are TVB-50k/43