English Translation

Prague, 2 April 194o 111 Betr.: Colonel a.D. von K o t i n s k y - K a u n i t z, Prague II, Pštrossgasse 25/II. Under the name Olek Otakar v. Kotinsky-Kaunitz, an alleged Russian nobleman and colonel of the former came in recent weeks. Russian army approached Supreme Council leader G i e s and asked him, referring to his earlier work as a Russian intelligence officer and affirming his friendly German attitude, to use it in the work of German services. He said that he was currently working in Prague after a life rich in persecutions as a fencing teacher. Since in the year l937 in Prague a detainee with a similar name had been sentenced for extensive frauds to 2 L32 years of serious dungeons, detailed surveys were carried out on the persons mentioned, using the files of the district criminal court Pankratz and the police department Prague; these render perfectly about the person of the Kotinsky the following picture: Otakar Kotinski was born on 17 May 1879. His place of birth is disputed. Sø, in the course of the trial led in 1937 against him, claims to be born in Polubjec in Russia, on the other hand, he gives su that Pardubitz is his place of origin. Equally unexplained is the question of his parents. The most credible of the conflicting personal data of Kotinsky and official confirmations is the assumption that he is the illegitimate son of Count Zdenko Kinský and the Baroness Anna Kaunitz. He came to Pardubitz in his earliest youth and grew up here under the care of his adoptive parents Karl Kotinski and Anna geb. Maisner (or Maxner).