STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 92, sig. 109-1/98

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56a) 109-1/98 II. Division of the Czech General Staff. The results of this intelligence service have been submitted to the Minister H a v e 1 ka. On the other hand, these results have also been transmitted to the group of fleeting intelligence officers of the Supreme M or r a v v e c abroad. ( Proof: Statement of the Min. Council S c h m o r a n z, statement of the Colonel. T ř e - b i c k y, statement of the Supreme H a v e l , statement by the Supreme D r g a č. Apart from military vurden also political news captured by the propaganda office. The research group headed the II.Abt. of the General Staff in Liguidation continuously foreign newspapers, which at the second abbot. In the press department of the Propaganda Office, too, the foreign press was evaluated accordingly and the results of this, using reports from the foreign radio, were compiled for information, which the II.Abt. of the General Staff in liquidation, the Třebicky Group and the Min.H a v e l k a were presented in each l specimen. ( Proof : Statement of the Supreme H a ve 1 ). When in June 1939 the Propaganda Office was to be dissolved and its tasks entrusted to the Press Department of the Council of Ministers Bureau, negotiations took place between S c h m o r a n ż and T f e b i k y on the transfer of the whole research group to the press department in order not to tear apart the existing news network and the established apparatus of this research group. S c h m o r a n z should endeavour to obtain permission for these news officers to be placed in the press department 0:6L7.