STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1253, sig. 109-4/1007 Page 21 · 21 of 109
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1253, sig. 109-4/1007
English Translation
Copy. T a State Police Headquarters Prague Prague II, July 11, 1940. B.No. K 558 III g. Secret report on the reasons for the arrest of the primator of Prague Dr. Klapka. In February 1940, the Hungarian defence organs of the protectorate members Milos Bondy arrested him in Budapest, who from there carried out extensive intelligence activities in favour of Czech e-migration in Paris and the Allied intelligence service against the Reich, especially in the Protectorate. Since then, the Prague State Police Department has been carrying out extensive investigations against the Bondy's employees and supporters. Amongst the 80 persons previously arrested, deit is 25.5. In 1940, the Czech editor Josef Jost from Prague, who had been working in intelligence against the Reich since the invasion, appeared in various cases of betrayal and could only become established under great difficulties, since he had completely changed his appearance and used false identification papers, since the 1st century. On July 3, 1940, Jost was ready to make a comprehensive confession about his illegal activity. In the course of this confession, he made detailed information on his relations with Dr. Klapka, the Primator of Prague, on July 3rd, 1940. After that Jost Klapko asked for financial support in his illegal activities. Jost has informed Klapka in detail about the news activities of his clients in Yugoslavia, Romania and Hungary and his own illegal activity. During his visits to Klapska he has also communicated to him news, especially in the field of internal politics, e.g. about the imminent arrests of illegal Czech personalities. Jost, according to his own statements of Klapka and in his