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- 2 - 290 Secretary of State for Defence On many military matters, not even the Minister for National Defence was informed, since President Benesch often carried out these discussions and the meetings with the General Staff, although Dr. Benesch was accused of doing so, he did not change his course of action in the matter. I remember some information tex Infermations, which I received in these circumstances from the agrarian members of the then government JAVEung and from some officers of the General Staff, For this reason, representatives of the General Staff with Gueral Fyrovy travelled to France to visit the fortifications there (Maginoline), while representatives of French Krmem and also the Bowjet Army ex with our General Staff exchanged their views on their own experience and knowledge of the construction of fortification lines SO0. As far as I can remember, negotiations on the extension of Sovjethe frasösischerund/SsR participation were also negotiated during the years mentioned, with the initiative of the BX starting from these states. I know that in Chechnya a number of anuen were to be built completely equipped, but also by reserve airfields ** and that discussions were held about the supply of aircraft to Czechoslovakia and that in particular in Czechoslovakia ammunition camps MS should be built for the aircraft. At that time *ts was also already carried out trial air bombardments on various experimental targets (bunkers, communications, etc.) on the military cs shooting site in Malacký in Slovakia with Czechoslovak, French and Soviet ammunition. I remember that, according to the information I received at that time, only about 50-55% of the bombs fired by the Czechoslovak production 95%, French production 90% and Soviet production exploded. I was told that the insufficient precision of the Soviet oil products shows that the SSsR did not have more qualified 206757