English Translation

NAV The representative of the military police 20 Prague, June 1940. and SD Geheim H .d. Subject: Intelligence in the Protectorate. Oh 2/ay .) Note: I. With the establishment of the protectorate, almost all German departments in Bohemia and Moravia started a strong intelligence activity. l.a) The party tried to use a network of information, which was of course given to the party and organised members of the people, to capture the Czech population in such a way that with their help it began to integrate representatives and supporters into the Czech authorities and organizations. This was done in an effort to create the sources of political knowledge which the party supposedly needed as a basis for its actual activity as well as for the desired involvement in the self- and foreign-state life in the Protectorate. In the same way, the divisions and affiliated associations were active. This has led to very harmful effects which have been continuously observed by the SD. e.g. the SD found that a total of 6 different intelligence services were in one place in the Protectorate by entrusting agents with the task of recruiting researchers from the Czech national sector, namely the B.D.O. (Bund Deutscher Osten), the district propaganda leader of the NSDAP., the local propaganda leader, the district organization head, the police and the Oberlandrat. This is explained by the fact that the possibility of knowledge of these places was set a natural limit by the ethnic boundaries and they now believed that their obligatory reporting in higher places included also such facts, etc., which could only be found in the Czech people in the intelligence service.