STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 596, sig. 109-4/343

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118a c9 to report to the Oberlandrat in writing to the OYU officials of the secret state police within a very short period of time from any official act (arrest, search, etc.), even if the gendarmerie posts did not appear. To this end, I order that the communications concerning the investigation of the activities of the State Police should be made in such a way that the Gendarmerie District Command should send sufficient copies of the report to the Oberlandrat for transmission to the District Chief." It is natural that in this way, especially if the Czech Gendarme Police are not consulted by the Secret State Police, the secret State Police will at first work inconspicuously, the measures of my officials must be destroyed. I have given orders that any Czech military officer who dares to spy on my subjects will be arrested, and I have asked the Supreme Council in Kladno to withdraw this order to the Czech gendarmerie. The matter is particularly urgent because, at present, Special Commands of the Prague State Police Department in the district of Kladno District are engaged in the roll-up of the illegal CCP, whose fight against it is particularly important and urgent in the industrial area of Klatno. 2.) The Czech gendarmerie lieutenant P o_- 1 ák was arrested on 28 May 1940 for spreading untrue rumors about the secret state police and other anti-state statements. Having not told the truth so far, he in his interrogation of the enitre 49678