STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2750, sig. 109-14/53

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195 Copies of correspondence series. FS No. 1439 * DR. Brünn 9774 2./6. An a) Reichsssicherhei b) Commander de and SD in Prague. Message: a) Stastspolizele b) Defence branch Brünn. Geheimi Subject: Arrest of a parachute agent. Process known. On 2.6.1942 the well-known parachuted agent P e c h a l, Vorneme Oldrich, born 12.5.1913 to Cawietiman, Bez. Gaya, in charge of Otrokowitz, Bez. Zlin, provisionally arrested. P e c h a 1 is in the night of 28.3.1942 together with M i k s and G e r i k (first arrested in Prague, second in the attempt to recover discarded sabotage material shot) over slov. area jumped off. The extensive broadcast material, which was also thrown, could already be guaranteed to Anfan April by Stapoleitstelle Brinn. P e c h a l is the murderer of the two German customs officers, who were, as is well known, shot at the Slovak-Moravian border on the night of 30 March 1942, The hiding place of the P e C h a 1 was already known by V-man work for several weeks. For the time being, however, access had to be omitted because it is certainly expected to be 0/0