STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31

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- 26 - Collective representative for Italy is the former Czech colonel Viktor M i l e r in Rome, Via G.G.Porro 4. This is at the time the head of the central office of anti-rich Czech activity in Italy. Prior to that he was a military adviser to the Czech news network there and deputy of the head. The delegation and fee correspondent of the Czech export institute in Trieste is Bohumil _B a r_t o_ š , Via Giusto n6. He heads a ND branch in Trieste, but plays only an unimportant role as a news interstation. During her stay in Milan in May 1940, the official of the export institute in Prague Julia B i s c h o f , resident of Prague II, Schwarze Gasse 4 negotiated with the branch office of the Czech Intelligence Service in Italy, H a n z lik on the possibility of sending messages to Prague. Another correspondent of the export institute in Romania is Ladislaus K o h l i k , Bucharest, Strada Braziliei 24 bezw.Str+ Bursei l. He is also a Bata representative and is supposed to work in the anti-German sense within the Czech colony in Bucharest. His brother Ing. Alexander K o h l i k, as well as Lev Re z á č , who was at the service of the liquidating Czech embassy in Bucharest until the l.l.l94O and according to the export institute probably moved to Yugoslavia where his wife has relatives. The representative of the export institution for Greece is Paul T o m í - š e k , Saloniki, Rue Arrianou 23. He is also a Bata representative. He was formerly an official of the Czechoslovak embassy in Athens and received his position at Bata through the mediation of the former consul Dr. L e l e k. Dr. l e l k, formerly consul in various European states, intelligence officer of the Czechoslovakian army, later official of "Kotva" (Bata A.G.) in Zlin. The export institute, in particular its foreign representatives and correspondents, should be regarded as a gathering point for anti-rich Chechchish foreign activities. - 27