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Sicherheitsdienst Rf4 Prag-Bubentsch 23. Aoril 1940 63 SD-Ceitseil Prag Sachfenweg Ferniprecher 77444 E 2 - PA .5945 Düro des S'aa sfekretür ben Re.diprotehtor in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 25.APR.1940 To Tgb. Nr.: 2648 Personal speakers of the Staatssekpetäry at the Reichsprotektor in Böhmen and Moravia, 4-Sturmbannführer G i e s , Prag. Betr.: V ě r t e l a ř Joséf, Revident of the grain monopoly, resident Prague XiX - Dewitz, Starodružníku 2o/I,door 8.; born 25.3.1887 in Neustadt monastery a.d.M., röm.kath. Introduction: There. Schrb. v.9.4.4o. Anlge: 3. The letter of the Věrtelař sent from there, together with a translation, is returned from here via V. discussions so far have revealed the following: As a tried-and-tested grain specialist, V. undertook numerous missions to Poland and Russia and stayed in Ukraine with his predecessors. Here he made himself in a propagandist sense very worthy of the former ČsR, taking personal contact with the Czechs living in Ukraine, teaching them about the events in Czechoslovakia and providing them with Czech literature and Czech magazines. He came through this activity in close relation to the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry, from which he was later officially assigned such a mission. He also had relations with the Ministry of National Defence (MNo) - however, what kind this was, could not be determined. According to an unverified report, V. was also said to have been a legionnaire. Even since the protectorate was founded, V. has often been on business trips and is always only temporarily in Prague. His political attitude can be described as a panslavist.