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165 fe Sicherheitsdienst RFy Prag, 31 January 1940 SD-Head Section Prague Office of State Secretary D - PA 4393 bein Reichspeotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 31, JAN.1940 Tgb. ne 259 AS To Mr State Secretary 4-Group Leader F r a n k Prag Betr.: Prof. Fred Oliver B a r t o n Vorg.: There.A commission, here received on 8.1.40 (Note: 2 Under original return of the request there is communicated as a result of the local findings, that Prof. Fred Oliver is currently resident in Königgrätz, U Lipek 128. B. had already been noticed in earlier times by the responsible SD service at Königglätz. According to his own statements, which made B. in acquaintance circles, he has already spent several years in England and America before the war. During this time he worked in various positions, e.g. as an editor at higher educational institutions, as a journalist, as director of a shipping company, etc. In the years 1914-18 he wanted to have worked for the English intelligence service and had been entrusted with the determination of Germans on American overseas steamers. A Captain George H i l 1 of the Secret Service was said to have been a good friend of his. B. has settled in Königgrätz after the fall eggs in 1938 and is there in close contact with the German language teacher M i k u l a , which also appears to be detrimental. The M. has by its efforts to form a circle of society around her person, which is primarily made up of members of the "Königgrätsch" -2 -