English Translation

21 - 2 it reports of press officers. Whether they were signed with letters or numbers or other characters or with a name, it is no longer possible for me to remember. I can no longer imagine that Sehm o r a n z once or several Nale has said that it refers to reports of the press pophto referent Kl one in Brno. I do not remember any more what the reports were about, and it is possible that I have also been given some extracts from some of the reports, and I can no longer remember what they were about today. As far as I am concerned, these reports were about the mood of the Czech population and about military news. I can no longer give any positive information about them. However, with regard to the military news, I can remember that it was news about the movements of the German troops to the East. The delicacy of the fact that the Minister H a v e l k a has read such reports on my desk is very clear, because he came to me two or three times a week. However, I deny, or at least consider it impossible, that I gave him such reports in original or transcript. On the other hand, I was very careful because he was known to me that he spoke a lot. I read the reports I received from Sc h m o r a n z and then burned them in the oven. The fact that I did this is because I did not want to keep it with me or let people know it because it was news which was partly illegal. The possibility that I also spoke with H a v e l k a about the news in question exists without any further information, but I can no longer remember it. I do not remember that I would have been told, for example, once that H a v e l k a asked him whether the messages in question were to be referred to as defamatory. I admit that I now know from the content of the reports that the organization of the press officers actually acted illegally, through the procurement of political and military news of various kinds. Before, i.e. at the time when S c h m o r a n z spoke to me about the sighting of the organization, I merely suspected, but did not recognize, the fact of illegal activity.