English Translation

The representative of the Federal Foreign Office informed me by letter dated 4 April 1994o that the press council of the Soviet Consulate General of the Protectors is Kurt Beer /probably Jew/, who uses the pseudonym Karl Konrad. In addition to this letter, the representative of that office informed me with a letter dated 29 April 1990. The Federal Foreign Office does not consider it appropriate to recommend to the Soviet Consulate General in Prague that newspaper notes and press releases be sent to the relevant departments, in view of the German-Soviet-Russian relations. The Federal Foreign Office is of the opinion that this could create the impression that a pre-censorship should be carried out in this context. Therefore, it has not been possible for me to intervene in this matter. On the other hand, I have stopped the relevant direct censorship posts to the greatest attention to even publications of Tass News in the Czech press. In the meantime, the former press councillor Beer is no longer working in the Consulate General of the USSR in Prague. Georg Axel, who is also an official correspondent of the agency Tass in Prague in addition to his work as a press advisory board. Axel has been noticed here in several ways in the most unpleasant way, of which I have continuously informed the representative of the foreign office. As far as I have been able to say so far, in no case has Tass news material been sent to Czech authorities or editorial offices, that it would have been as political as it had been. Mostly, these broadcasts have been limited to cultural material. The opinion of the Wehrmacht authorised representative in his letter of 3 December 1974 that the Russian Consulate of the Ceneral seems to be considerably burdened by his broadcasts to the editorial staff of the magazine of the government force, I cannot join, since these material shipments to 49047