STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 595, sig. 109-4/342

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173 -3 political processes which had escaped their possibility of cognition had to be informed in other ways, this led to the circular decree of the RadI of the lll.1l. l938, which established cooperation between the SD and the public authorities of the general and internal administration, and in which the SD was recognised as an institution equivalent to a public authority in order to simplify this cooperation. All in all, this development in recent years has led to the SD being today the sole political intelligence service of the party and state, which is the one for a political and world-view news service of nat. Socialist leader state alone has implemented the correct conception through a systematic approach developed over the years, both in the collection and in the evaluation and presentation of the ceshen into practice. 3.) In order to eliminate the unbearable developments in political intelligence within the Protectorate as shown above, and in order to establish cooperation between SD and NSDAP and the authorities of the general and internal administration. It is considered expedient to make practical use of the results of the above-mentioned development also in the works council and therefore the arrangement of the deputy of the leader attached in the annex and the decree of the RMdl. with subsequent circular of the Lord Reich Protector to apply as the basis of the interaction between the political intelligence service and the leadership of the party and the state: II. From the occasion given I bring the order of the deputy of the leader of the l4 December l938 and the circular decree of the Reich Minister of the Interior of lll. lg38- Pol. S-V 1 Nr. 695/38-151 - (RMB1iV 1938 v. 23.1l. 38 Nr. 48 p.l906).