STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1830, sig. 109-5/58 (damaged)

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hV - l1 - involved in an informal conversation to explore their appointment to the Soviet regime. The same procedure is also applied to Soviet Russians who have lived abroad for a long time. The secret spies receive a special allowance in addition to their salary. The members of the OPEROD are all authorized agents of the GUGB. In addition to the NKVD school, all relatives also attended a scouting school. To 2 c) The Secret Political Department - SPO. This department is the most important of the GUGB. and also the most numerous. Among their tasks are the control of the colchoses, the sovchose, the village and city intelligence, the supervision of the students of central and higher education, the clergy including all sects, all members excluded from the Communist Party, the supporters of Trotsky, Bukharin, former anarchists, etc. The national aspirations of the individual peoples of the Soviet Union are also monitored by this department. The SPO works differently from the OPEROD, namely with an agent apparatus, which is later described (Appendix 2a). The department itself is divided into 3 fields of work, namely in village affairs (rural population), political parties and clergy, the selection of officials takes place according to their previous professions. They either originate from the country or belong to - /