STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 661, sig. 109-4/409

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2 - 2 - use of his unsecured pistol and a subsequent escape attempt was prevented. At the first interception of the arrested person it turned out that he should agree with another agent a meeting for 22 o'clock on the same day, as Moravek was prevented from coming to 1 9 o' clock himself. At about 1 9.l5 a.m., when my officers had already taken away the arrested, appeared from a sideway un-anticipated M or r a v e k, saw his arrested prisoner and opened the fire, which was immediately returned. M o r a ve k received a shot in the calf and in the lower leg and tried to drag himself away. At 7 p.m., when Moravek was encircled and no longer saw any chance of escape, he shot himself before my officers could jump. M o r a v e k fired 5o in this short time without anyone getting hurt. He was beaten by lo shots. During his search, 2 9 mm pistols, 7 empty spare magazines, key material and radio messages from London, which are currently being deciphered, were found. 22 people have been arrested by the roll-up of the group M o r a v ek. Further persons are expected to be arrested and the entry into the British parachutist organization is expected. Among the festive ones are 2 former Czech military radios, which have built up to the last time for Moravek shortwave apparatuses and radioed with London and 3 sleeper car operators, who most likely provided courier services for the British-Czech intelligence service on their journeys abroad. This action also covered: 3 transmitters, 6 receivers, extensive material of components for transmitter construction and a large number of radio signals.