STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10

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-3- 84 of the. Since the Czechs in the homeland did not want to kill the Deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, who had offered them above all to social services and brought them significant advantages in the food industry, Desperados from Benesch's private guard, sent as parachute agents, had to complete the murder. Today, we know from the statements of several parachute agents we have gathered, that the two murderers Kubiš and Gabčik were received personally before their departure after the protectorate of Benesch and the necessary enthusiasm for the assassination attempt was persuaded them. The radio messages also found among parachute agents in the Ori-ginal, which I announced to the Czech ministers on the occasion of the reception of the autonomous government on 26 May, continue to prove his guilt for the M,rd. After several parachute agents had come to know the true mood of the Czech people in their homeland and their attitude to rebellion, murder and ahhhaii Thater frucar on dr sabotage, they warned their Czech clients in London of the execution of the 3nraxtnudau assassination and asked to refrain from the murder plan. But Fhn far lab Hey Benesch, who needed the murder, but according to knowledge of the true mood in the Protectorate should have prevented Mou vae Moniplan, did not do so, let the murderers free Iauf and thanked on 3.6.1942 in a fuhk sentence for the act carried out. The exultation in the London Czech programme and the formulations in Benesch's speeches indicate the satisfaction of the success of the attack. As Fl.u was wrong in the account of Benesch, the respiration and relief of the whole Czech people showed when the murderers and their helpers were caught. The intentional effect in the Protectorate, namely to induce large-scale insurrection and sabotage, has not been achieved. To what extent English and Americans give Benesh faith that the Czech people were in the protectorate or are in the insurgency, is beyond my knowledge. If they believe it, they are in error.