GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 367, sig. 110-4213

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91 St.ll. IV F - 8 a/44 g.Rs. Prague, 17 February 1944. V 17. 11. 194 2.) S Secret Reichssachel Present immediately with G-Pernschreiberly nesftt ak Dringendt! TOS. To Mr. Reichsminister and nbow head of the Reichskanzlei Dr. Lammers KO to Poldquartier. neite ssetb Very venerable Mr. Reichsminister !. IoN mipote To Reiehenleiter Bormann I directed the following tele-letter ooed cov alfet "A recent American journalist named Lowell Bennet has been shot down over Berlin. Bennet is a journalist wnd was the last chief correspondent of the INs affiliated to the Hearst Group in London. The temporary office, with the approval of the leader Bernet, under the name Mr. Martin, had Germany and now also the Pre-tektorat looked at in the assumption that in the event of an exchange the American would, on the basis of his impressions, take a position against the ven Roosevelt on the conditions in the empire spread abominable propaganda. Bennet has now, in Prague, met with a woman who had been shown to be a Czech, inter alia, to speak in August Vods with Churchill and General Harris, the head of the Reyal Air Foree, in a press meeting.