English Translation

56 - 2 - 109-1/98 At the time of the threat of war in the autumn of l938, the Minister without portfolio was commissioned by the then Prime Minister Dr. H o d to establish a propaganda office. The army after the munich, with the news abbot of the Czech general staff being reduced in particular, were commanding renowned news officers in this office, in order to there analogously the post division of the army as 3. In December 1988, when H a v e 1 ka was appointed head of the President's Office and Minister without portfolio, he was also entrusted with the management of the Propaganda Office under construction. Especially during his term of office is the further expansion of this news department, on which in March 1993 the former chief investigators of the General Staff, Colonel H a v e l k a, as head of the department III of the Propaganda Office, Lieutenant Colonel T ř e b i c k Y, as Head of the Porschunggruppe der Abt.III, and Lieutenant Colonel B ü r g e r as Headof the Study Group of the Division III, reported. Havel- ka is fully responsible for the personnel occupation of the propaganda office with news officers (proof statement of the Supreme D r g á & ( sheet 23 d.A.) The official purpose of this news department should be researching public opinion, spec. in the Czech legal opposition sector, as well as in the Slovak and Karpathoukrainian sectors, with a view to their secession from the Czech Republic. While the study group under Lieutenant-Colonel was actually dealing with legal work, the group under lieutenant-colonel T f e - b i c k y was expanded into a genuine military intelligence service, with part of the network of agents of the II.Department.