STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2736, sig. 109-14/39 Page 83 · 83 of 86
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2736, sig. 109-14/39
English Translation
- 3 - for the then intelligence service of the NSDAP against the SA and from l933 for military espionage. Since l934 Thümmel has been the main official confidant of the defence station Dresden; after the invasion in 1939 he was transferred to the defense station Prague. As far as an overall judgment on the Tjummel case can be given so far, the point is represented here, that Thmummel has been a very good, probably even the best agent of the Czech ND. He has received from the Czech nd mine RM 40,000,-. On 21.3.42, SS leaders of the German security police overtook the previously known posts of the former staff captain Moravek, the head of the British-Czech espionage group and the sabotage organizations of the illegal Czech resistance movement, after attempts to reach Moravek via a middle person had failed. The interrogation of some of those arrested in these contact points has revealed that a Koravek's agent would appear at 7 o'clock on 23 March 1942 in a park on the outskirts of Prague. Some of the officers occupied this park just before 19.00 o' clock to arrest the prisoner and thus get to Moravek. The officer was arrested at around 19.l0 o'clock after a severe resistance, preventing the use of an unsecured pistol and a subsequent explosion attempt. At the first interception of the arrested person, it turned out that he should agree with another agent a meeting for 10 o'clock on the same day, as Mora vek was prevented from coming to 9 o' clock himself. At about 7:15 p.m., when my officers were already transporting the arrested, Moravek unexpectedly appeared from a side path, saw his arrested commissioner and opened the fire, which was immediately rescissed. Moraveks got a shot in the calf and in the lower leg and tried to drag himself away. At 7:19 p.m., when Moravek was encircled and saw no escape possibility, he shot himself before my officers could jump. Moraveks entered the