English Translation

5 -3 - 109-1/98, nevertheless the Wehrmacht authorized representative had previously forbidden the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia that news officers would be employed in official positions of the Protectorate administration. Of these negotiations only S c h m o r a n z, T r e b i c k y and H a v e l k a knew (evidence: statement of Schmoranz). The work of the research group had been financed from funds from the news department of the former èsl. General Staff, which were withdrawn from security by the German Wehrmacht through false bookings. This money was administered by Colonel D r g a c and the balance of cca K 5,000.00o.---to the Min.Pres.E l i a s. D rg a c had s.Zt. To the minister H a v e l k a reported that he was in possession of this money and received from H a ve l ka the order to cancel it until further notice. ( Proof: statement of Trebieky, statement of Elias, statement Drgac. - The illegal news procurement was taken over after the dissolution of the propaganda office by the officers, who were installed as censorship officers in the context of the press department. The head of this illegal intelligence service was the Min. Council S c h m o r a n z. Also of this illegitimate intelligence service H a v e 1 k a had knowledge. In the course of a conversation on new and complementary constructions of the BMB, H a v e l k a has shown two messages which were written with the cipher C 1 and which he had received from S c h m o - r a n z and which contained communications about troop transports of dureh Brno in the east and strategic road constructions in eastern Moravia. He was told that these messages were from S c h m o r a n z. H a v e l k a. then asked S c m o ro r a z on occasion whether the messages he had given to the E l i a s were necessarily reliable.