STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1253, sig. 109-4/1007

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321 Copy. Secret State Police S ae Prague II, July 11, 1940. B.NF. K 558 III G. Gehein. Referred to 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 established in Budapest, which 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 protectorates.Since then, the Prague State Police Department has conducted extensive investigations against the staff and carriers of the Bondy. Since 25.5, 1940, the Czech editor Josef Jost aun Prag, who has been working for intelligence against the Reich since the Einmarach, has also been among the 30 persons who have been arrested. In the various treason cases in hiding, uad mur was able to pass under great difficulties, since he had completely changed his appearance and used false ID papers. Since 1 July 1940, Jost has been willing to make a formal 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 3 July 1940. After that, Jost Klapca asked for financial support in his Ilogalon activity. In his visits to Klapka, Jost also informed him of news, especially in terms of internal politics, e.g. about the imminent arrests of illegal Czech persons. Jost, according to his own information, reported that Klapca and his