STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 429, sig. 109-4/174

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19 - 5 - War outbreak. I dispute that Sc h m o r a n z at the time when he reported on the creation of the organization concerned, referred to the possibility of a war outbreak. I also deny that he spoke of a consensus of all the available suitable forces for the intelligence service, and that in the event of a war he expected the defeat of the empire. It is true that Sc h m o - r a n z told me that there were also a number of former intelligence officers to the officers he had admitted to the organization. With S c h m o r a n z, I have not spoken in more detail about the Grganisation in question, and I have repeatedly been kept informed of its information and I remain convinced that they are not correct and that my information corresponds to the truth. When the officers concerned were later distributed among the individual district principal teams, the Minister of the Interior J e z e k came to me and complained that S c h m o r a n z sent out a number of officers since they claimed to be subject to the S c m o ro n z, for which I had given my consent. I have explained that I am in favour of this and that this is done with my agreement, but that I have assumed that I should avoid these problems, I have instructed J e z e k to order that the officers concerned be placed under the responsibility of the relevant district head. I did so because the district d d a d d that the officers concerned should pass on their reports via the district head team to the regional authority and via the Ministry of the Interior to the press department of the Council of Ministers. If I had certainly known this and had agreed to it, I would not have caused this kind of report back to the Ministry of the Interior, but I would have been able to obtain control of the reports because I thought that illegal reports could be given directly to dsx Sc h m o r a n z. I would like to say once again that I have read about the illegal CeoCeaete.