English Translation

D - PA 4393 in Bohemia uno Mahcen 69V Eing.= 1 JUNE 1940 To Tgb. Nt.. 314 State Secretary at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia boyung! 4-Group Leader K.H. F a n k Prag lifiy 0+9/2 le Czernin-Palast. Betr.: Professor Fred Oliver B a r t o n Vorg.: Dort.Schrb. of 5.5.40 Following the letter of the SDLA-Prague of 26.2.40, it is again communicated that Professor Fred Oliver Barton, who lived for years in Karlovy Vary and is the son of a butcher and a Jewess from the region of Mies ( Sudetengau), later settled in Pressburg. He allegedly played a major role in the espionage centre, which was excavated at the beginning of December 1939, but withdrew from access in due time and fled to Belgrade. Since his escape, nothing more could be learned about him. The original assumption that this Fred Oliver Barton is in Königgrätz, where he ordered a Karlovy Vary day= newspaper, has turned out not to be correct. Rather, it is a name bearer who has nothing to do with the former. This second barton is a protectorate member born in Beneschau, who was never in Slovakia and did not leave Königgrätz at all during the time in question. So it was only a name confusion here. Since this second barton is also suspected of spying, the secret state police were informed at the time, 1 to deal with him further from a spyage police point of view. Woutod by-emrmbannführer