STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2736, sig. 109-14/39

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- 2 - the mood is waiting and stiffening in a certain sense, although there is no reason to be afraid in the overall line. I will therefore wait for the development of the mood in the near future, in order to, if necessary, at the right moment by once again lightning-fast packing to underline the fact that the Reich is still packing up and the mildness is not a weakness. Police operations must be reported in particular the further burglary into the Czech resistance movement or the British-Czech intelligence service. After the lengthy interrogation of the arrested radio operator of an illegal station excavated in October 1994l, 4l more persons were taken and the news service (which was largely carried out since the invasion) was transferred. The leader of this group was the former Czech colonel Churavy, who was sentenced to death by the Wehrmacht Court of Bohemia in l939 for sabotage in absentia, and the radio operator of the group testified at the first interrogation at the scene that he had radioed a weather report in the afternoon and asked London to send an aircraft with new cipher keys. In fact, at around 24.00 o'clock this night, the arrival of a British aircraft took place, which dropped a parachute jumper with chiffrier and courier material in the town of Pardubitz. The drop jumper was arrested a few days later. By means of latent detentions until January 1942, the total number of arrests increased to 57. By the evaluation of the Funkünterhgen found at the crime scene and subsequently deciphered, the existence of an important British-Czech agent "René" was known, which was determined on 27.2.42 in the person of the main confidant of the defense station Prague, Paul Thmummel. Thümmel is a German citizen, has been a baker's master and is an honorary sign bearer of the NSDAP under the member number 61.574. He has been working for intelligence since 1928, and at first honorary