A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2697, sig. 109-13/4

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84 d/ to prepare the bombardment of the Skoda-lerke in Pilsen e/ and the assassins B a b e k and K u b i*s ene nz b/ 4 contact points have been identified and removed by means of state police missions. a/ Bad Behlorad near Jitschin: 4 persons fixed. b/ four contact points in Pilzen: c/ Fourteen points of contact in Prague: until now 86 are arrested. d/ Stait and Oberlandratsbezirk Pardubitz: 23 points of call. Up to now 46 persons have been arrested. The extensive written material of the group B a r t o & from the various contact points is currently being examined. The contents of the previously decrypted military radio messages and other military division is inserted as Appendix 1/. The espionage group B an r to S had to pre-empt the bombing of the Skoda erke in Pilsen on rice of L-ndon. It lit two barns opposite each other for this purpose during a flight of British bombers on the night of 25th to 26th April 1942 in the immediate Nghe of the Skoda factory, so that the fire served as a landmark. Ritish planes flew into Gieser Nacht in several waves towards Pilsen. Only one plane has circled over the Skada grke. Bombs were dropped from - an aircraft 8 kn away from the Skoda rke. Radio traffic between Lndon and group B a r t o S in Pardubitz about the in-depth preparation and the result of the attack on Skoda-