STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 653, sig. 109-4/401

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according to 2 more bottles of wine brought into the conference room and placed on the table. It may be left in place whether this cardboard actually stood on the large round pea or was placed on any other piece of furniture: In fact, as mentioned before, bread rolls were handed out again. The little cardboard mentioned was then seen again by H a j e k, when Elias had left the Kolowrat Palace a time after the press conference, by him (Hajek) lying empty on the floor in the laundry room behind the former Prime Minister's office. However, the new investigations have not provided any indication of the whereabouts of the 20 apples, unless E l a s, which has not been heard by the Special Commission for tactical reasons, can give an explanation of the already established COIOS during the first interrogation: the contradiction between the information provided by the E l i a s and his chauffeur B r o z e k regarding the journey started before the press conference from the Kolowrat Palace is becoming even more important in the context of the new investigation. In the presence of the chauffeur, B r c z e k, the route he took with the Prime Minister on the morning of 18.9.194l has been taken twice. On the first trip, the individual stages with the stop-