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156 Copy of an article from the German daily newspaper "Grenzbote" v. l6 December l939. Place of publication? Slovakia Intelligence Service in Slovakia. Mr. B a r t o n and his ship's coffee. People's catchers in Karlovy Vary, owner of the flower bar in Bratislava. An ornament of the criminal guild of I.S. ff, Peßburg, 15 December. Under the heading "Secret Service unter uns", the "German Voices" publish a summary of the work of London agents, the former English consul P a r e s, the owner of the ship's coffee "Boon" B a r t o n, and other so-called "harmless" mostly American journalists on Slovak soil. The departure of the English "Consul" Pares in the last days of August to Budapest was, as you can see, by no means the final point of the British spying and hesitant activity in Slovakia. Pares left his two middlemen S e a m a n and B i n c h in Pressburg, which, however, due to the access of the Slovak police, were soon forced to lay down their craft. We have reported on the recent appearance of a Jewish heresies centre in Topolchan some time ago, the existence of which proves that English pounds continue to roll in Slovakia, distributed by the "Slovak expert" Pares, who has now been transferred to the South East European headquarters of the Intelligence Service in Budapest. In the Hotel G e 1 1 e r t to Budapest there are still nice intimate dinners, within the framework of which Mr. Pares will handle his "Slovak business". Mr. Barton, the "Cafetier par exellence" has also disappeared with the swallows from this country and even if he is not an Englishman, as he did, he will hardly have the opportunity to practice his whispering business here. Barton was one of the most dangerous international instigators in the Benesh regime. Karlovy Vary National Socialists can tell about his work in West Bohemia, which they owe to months and years of imprisonment in Pankratz. Who is Minister Barton? Fred Oliver B ar t o n is a half Jew, born in spite of his pronunciation from a language border town of West Bohemia. The paternal jam shop soon became too tight for him, so that he wandered to Holland just before the war, later to England and finally to America. In America the ground was too hot for him about l922 - he had carried out some juicy frauds - and so he decided to burn down except for a bright sports suit and the in the right side pocket stuck unmeaning "short påpe" return home. After a short stay at "Tateleben" he went to Prague, where he soon played a certain role in the circle of Beneschagents who had just begun to assert themselves. Oliver the Manhunter. In 1932 Ered Oliver Barton appeared for the first time in the world spa town of Karlovy Vary. We find here Mr T i t u l e s c u, later also Mr Litwinow, who, however, does not interest Mr Barton in an ostentative way, because he has a real Czech task. He has to spy on the dead-sick Anton S v e h 1 a and take care for Benesch that this great politician does not yet have K n i r s c h or the then German national -2-