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1. In view of the •nnte rnlly close tice between the Germnne and thePAZAALA groep. eer poell:oi hoe been thAt nrm ie theoretic:illy altct mellem of peuctrnt;an of that green. In prnetice. however, wedo net seem likely to obtrin detailed ne • .0. ieeei informationby this means. This pa . tfsitt nOwZIP Pi field expert on C::echoelovnsia, for a stedy of the racuLtmovement. (V23:34 a Oe leten G erman, clniso to know oersonally thelontinl fi,:eres of that w.voment here in Cerstaly.) The reselt vasthn eoclosere, which te hot a atedy, despite Its smattering of facts,bet a biased piece of pro:ewe:vie. "To eper V • 4 prepared jaintly by

Ba, the ZIFF.2thendneartJrs desk sae for tne C3R.

r. The past record of therm two non, and of iflISR •epecinlly, isen:iltIngeishod. Whether the fact that we have hod small reterna(except for the Bohemia Operetien)jrces seer investment in VEBER andCo. renelte from Inconplete cooperativeness or (os is =aro proboble)11,1tod ability, it is nonetheless tree that WZBER t e past and cerrentstrategic work irte been deficient.

•3. "oder thore circenstances we ehoeld welcome any addltionel

Information aboet ZIPM-InC4ALi ties which might roselt fro gs Opera-tion mist'. tt tho same time, word of ceetIon in in order. Sincewnnln vsr'e pt dArect17 enier tho negle of the 7,1rpra headoecrters, itLa necesearr to be even more discreet in penWtrating his activitiesthan in oxamtning those of a general agency.

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• (11OnOrnlii.o, (LoSrtMCFALA came froal l ashren. Re otteel t ed the Gormantromnatos ak7gnchren aun entered ths K. K. (Intearttch "nit foentglIch)Offilers Corpe of the Aostrlan-itongarinn mencrehY. Do sing World Nor I berom:ht with Glitch Arcopt rind we mother of the Ceechoelorntian Legion. Nisattitndo toward Germ: officers And non wee alweyo eery loyal. At the end ofthe 10410, eericoo difference arone betwoos VRCUALA and BZES. TM realonfor tLis difforence was the conflict hotweoa the •t:chat:focal (nolittcni)petit ten of PlCALAand the • (necov oolitic,' of zzles. In 1930 P"CUALArepeated to 117=5, ninoloc no word*, that he Opposed A Coschoelowakionpolicy oriented toward Koecow bocnass each a policy /one tantamoont to Airingnp . antionel ladependonco, as a coneecoonce of which tho vettorn coltors oftact conntry :mold be loot. Shortly after German troops •ntered the CSR,tho spring of 1S9. PRC3ALA fled to London. In London ne established theNational Cosusltteo. with the following progru:1

1) A, Cathollo-Chrictian bast., in the scene of the West.

1 P) Aottnony and indopendent decision concorning their ownfatore for all nationalities in /addle 3nrOpe, la thesetae* of a federal onion.

3) 4.nA0rOW1600t of opposition to the so-callod s Csecho-1 elovakise, beceo ge there snot ho reprossmatloa for

the concept that Slowskiane hew* a right to their ovastate:

PRCSALA opposed ompletel: the expelling of ths Sodeteo Dermeas in 1945: -benne-en of Christian principles P4m4i poLitical coosidorstions. bftw..se hereproJonts the opinico that the old "aloe of O yes peoples IN4t not be rootwaradiro

Composition of the Ceoch National committee' in Londons

• Chairman General L. MULL

Darts : V. L. )SOIS (eases fron the camp of thoSocialists. was a hitter opoonent'ofProcl4ent PENES.

Conerftl s rACCIPTS former National DenocretSecretary (WM Party)

Min nom:att., ieclaiwely rejected tho idea that it shoold bocce* neticnal-iefic. It was considered of greater vale that loading Socialists shoold bedrawn into the movement and that the Nationel Committee ohonld haveCarts:Liao-Social Democratic bails.

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The notional Committee in Lonnon eopoorte the preen rational droopsIn Anotica. Tn.1141.4. dostrto, nit.i Proven Oarmnny.

Too chnirenc of the ernop le Virollate*EFWET,_Konich,with his offiee at Onchooere:Tmse 9/11, telewhone hem. addressle In honnchon/Borenhoosen; he lives thore i.e a eah-tannst 'if the lamerDtechlalovnklan ii lit attortov, C•r.,RianOtr,,. A claw, oo,weesur of1=E,.31‘T is a certain Prefensei1. t4-P,t whe ontil reoently woo an PonorArYprofessor in Erlanlen, laiiTIFLo stilt. Ilres. According to r.x,msta, theF4CFALA gene ts to »oetern Oirlitnx is • closely Intaruoren Csechoslovnkinngroep. Of the some moon Czechs who hove emi grated to wvIt acrimny. sheetCOON are pr.lentir 'tenon members of the PRCAALA movement.

In London the Misch National Clmalitss elrblinhed a periodical inClechos/ovaktan with the title Corky 121. In addition, a poblicatioa inEnglimh 10 pot cot in London ewer the title Frawin (The Troth). Therobliener is 7..1.. Recently a avo newsheet of the Czech VntionalOroop In Gerwtty'h.:s **eared oilier the title Rehecla. Responsible for itscontaus Is T. ;I:KiSkI. ZdItorlal and administrative offices are atihinknonretr. 9. Konich 2.

The tom.? CzechosloveLlan Ninistor of Arricoltorr, au% nv.itring in Vaohington, is attra:.tiar tc.bring together those emirrnnt Creche'wha belonged to what woe for., erly the lerroct CrechonloraPlan spoilt/colparty, the Agrnricn Pnrty. (This party Wen orohibited lg.- President PENTSin 10-45.) The CT= creop hoe not an :rat taken e potation in reenect tothe retort' of the Soieten Sermons.

In Vn:daington is another grao wh!ch calls itself 'Cooncll for ftFree C394 . Tide 'troop Is led by the former Primmer:4.)f the city of Pr-o,

(9.nli follower), br the former -Inieter. ..A"VA/EI (Soolalt r;aoerot):-.14 4,7 the well-Yncei Dr. 1 1.4ort • FEA. ioho Is in retie most ofthe ties. Thee. threo men were reamers of 4 .11:1:CS government from 1945te coe,ted and si gned the law• expelling thc Sodeten Sersinns. and1,7osed on the Czech people the well-known e norder orders" (iordbefen10).There three Pe2 'tr. the co-nothore of the MoscOw-oriantated perforenrce ofthe PC7E3 rolernment and ore in the eyes of the PRSHALA groep major offenderst2 the conning of the goernbere Tri p le and chiefly responsible for thedeetroction of dstoorntio Czechoslovakia. becnose they bro-cht the Roesionsint0 the CSR.

The rscPALA people cite the following episode, which occorred In• 1946 and Watch indicates the chornoter of Dr. RIVICAt

There wits a conflict in the forcer Seech parliament between t70cow:octets and the citlitens Dante., the latter constitating the formerCottoned front. This conflict concerned the gositien of who deserved toclatr the greatest credit for the erpolling of the Sodetin Gernene. Infleoy speech Dr. RIPKA declared before the parliament that In 1941, 1942.

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ond 1943, to conference. held In London and Yoshltinton with competontfelern1 aolhorline. he hod creotod the Wile for thA expeiline or theDo yenne. The same Dr. MIA Vs. reePtee i 1011-t three weeks Aeo InStrossborg by Chorchtil And N tem other Englieh coneervolives. In therocircloo he reprenentrd himself As A martyr to the CA P'S. Of 020OhOOIOTRRIRRdemocracy nod the Cesch potpie, and ellowod himself to be celebrAted aspooh,

The itelemite to the Dondostee it Donn.1*I tIrZ of Nonich (C9"), itevototen Rama, who ono took port kn t4o prooe7.77W-Orths teropeon Coonoilits it delAnote ln Streeabore, woo thereneter received by Chorchlil And k g KLIIONi=PIM stote4 that It woe orrontoos to rocognist we it reproccatative to aenonell toprorenting it ttottrni Pomona etoenopt the man who dog the grovetor morality And democracy In Middle Drape. Re NILTOR replied that hetovoid dispatch his Advisors for Milne Z.. ropo to Bonn, in order altto to01 mrIfY this (P.Oetion in detail.

'Tb. oersement bottom the Czech Untionel Conant** In London mid theWorking Comeittoe for the Preservation of lodoten (termite Interests. In

•This Working Committer* (ArbeingemelnothA(t) for Protection of Intertste

of the Sedeten demons watt foonded In 1942 in Honich. The Annoonced errposoof thto working coeuittoo I. the hendline of All goeetioee or (orot4o POlierA. topop nooetione relate to OA proporty of rodoten Oereans. la soch stoneop Norway there nre moro thnn three ani it holt million •embore. Thisworkine'comaitteo is R democratic covettneft and when inwelon rep:Pecan Allpolitical partilmr. Leaders are tho falovingt

,1) (r.1111. icst4:3a v. d. !Peening. Lager Linderzortms. leaderof the Sodetcaderann amp ociation at compatriots.

2) oRWi eeeneen.R..nicb 15. Sohobertetr. 2, dot...loco to theDeodsatag(CSe).

D1cha411=T7XTR. Rear bell gencheo. delegate to the Dendestag(S. P. D.).

Dr. 1.070MANU woo the 4evocrotleal1y eloctot chit: delegate ( yen 3ohocia in1910 - 1919. la spite of his At eonced NPR (73 ycars), he is remarkablyactive - in (Act, 4te activity in hectic. Since the mot of World 'tar I hehma boon ea eager Ovovion of the right of •olf-deterwinatIon tor the S-dotenCeroons. . vVill 1925 he war it tolerate of the Osman Notional Part in theTarliament in Prneoe: from 1925 to 190 be mns politically inactivo. Se themheld the position of it le.sineoe annagor for the Joint edninistrativo &s p oon-%ton for Dermas totes In the CSR. Since 1945 he his boon cholroan of theSoloten Gerona laltootntlon of Coopotriote in Dovnris: since 1950 he hoo bootchili-east of this groeIt at the West Ovroomy /reel. Iii J.17 of this yeArLtAX: visited 14 r. He CLOT in order to report *boot the Sodetsa OensattAvocet/Lucie of Compatriots and to trantelt. at this tics, the text of the so-coiled WItsbaden Agreareat betwven the Clocts rational Nominee and the JointWasting Comalttee (Arbeitogemelaseha(t).

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Nornose of the fnot Oat It certain "Coonoll or:hoc Cscchasiornitia"..tearoom( or ootspoken rollowura or the ;Jr= n«rnp, are try ing in Voehtn4nten to convince the 1:o-tnrn world thot they are the Cron ropreiotntivosof the people in bohomia. Hor3,n, and $11sitia. 04.reproncotntiren of theCIOCh NatEnnl Committee 'titer Pr.CHALA and the ropri .sertatiwits or the.Sodeteo Otrenns foond thomp eivn. •rnwn tegotmor 11 order. forAlleir Wt.to Porn a fauertalse comalttse, by which sena* it cn. 34 be ormanstrntsd tothe entire world that ma twoll be firma the lawf..1 reprrewntotiroa of thetotal population of . the Bohemian-game:an p ron. After n prepamtory me/wigsof totter., a aeeting vat hold on 14 and 25 J"17 ISSO in Yierbrden betweenDr. LortInur end (lateral PiCHALA. In the protonce of dolexotem scrrm AnaP7lITSTL the ogrocmont sem phrnned.,and on 4 Angost 1960 it vac rntlfied bythe roll assembly of the Arbeitsgameinochaft nnA the roll assembly of theCsech National Committee.

The most notable point. of the orreowent sr* ae talittest

1. The decision to TOUC.GCQ hatred nod reprisal.

2. Rejection of the principle of col'ectire i.i1t..

3. In this wry a roortr..ctive, poeltiro policy, in lb. Enropeaosense. will be boiit over the iron C4 .rtola. The oppresette nntione on bothaids. of the Iron Certain Wool.; knov thnt they do not hoofs to choosebetween the nitern ,tivss of the Itot phoristio pysten and the rerenKo ofOeroatto retorting hoots bat that we nre far rore inclinod to onulorline theabominable *roots which took place d»ring •nA after the second world wen' inorder to Snild • peacefrl world in Nidile Norope.

To Lhie end the contrnot is eetAlishod on the bosic principle thatboth nationalities shall hold a free election at Ws time of their deliver,'to detor,ine their fotoro fate according to the principle of solf-determina-Lion.

The contract firmly establishes the point that it not be.the pnr900*of both parties to fight for the freeing of Bohemia. Norriria. and Silesiafror Solsheriotio erpression ,and to insnre the retnrn of the Sndeton Corp/Anato their homeland.

•Another meeting occorred On 11 September 1960 in ifeiebsdec between

ITCHALA Ana the esecotine body of the Arbeitecemoinschart. In this conferencethe cornosltion of the federal moanittes was decided. This committee is toCoosist of a •ix-ecaber essan tir• branch and twenty-four meobors. It shrillconsist of Germans and Creche on a Doe's of parity. Ite fonctien is tocoacoru itself. In worions sections. with 4osetioam Of forolen policr,defense, economics, cotters. press. etc.

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teen, oht IL now. Chntrean of the Anrlo-Sednten Cleb in London. STOFCA comes:Me A"eslA. formerly in the ihhtetenland, and erigented in IDJH to Klt • ane APno er.anent. he the Social Onnocrnte. Sinco then he hfts bettome an Engilehel tisen.

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• The Iflestutien Argument entled forth a loed echo In the rent of thewotild. The 31 . 11e Keroplian prose wont of the Iron Certain took the position.In /*nano ertioloe, that this agreement sena Ahn first sttentk to find etdesocretio lsoletion to the pr,blem of the Inter-4•Intione of the saltiolenntineinlities In the Dhnebe area. Grit lent voice. unintnined that the PROKALA t lepresente only a smell reement of the Csnchoslornklan p0Ople. Onthe 011 0 of the Seem...ft dormnne. o position AAA t%%en np C co,:cn• onee ofenvern1 nseemblIso in which nomorowil negative opinions wet-. also voiced. Theel let nrr•mont vent/set the ngreement vnr directed mten• twocell y Agninet

«. Moscow and 'mint nearly a declaration of war ngninot the Kremlin.

The majority at the Sedsten Germane wore in favor of the agreementand are flinty ennvinced that only by co-von neare rer Wren by the WenternWorld no a V.:ele vIll their ret•trn to their homeland become poesible.

Tho n^reeeent struck echoes pnrttcelnrly in the *their annll Mulattost,tee: in pnrtieelnr. Are It intere:k Ka - bora 'thorn by the rkrnlni-nno, theSlovnkinne. And denAnrians. (A irrttc-lnrly acre commis:Inn *yin's betweenthe trbeitsgemottiochnft and the Slovakia-. 7;etion4 Coo: itteo in Wgehingtoo.)It is knawn thnt the 3tornkie .1 fall into three ground t th4 tint andsmalleet cro-p amA er the former Csech rapru mitative to 'TO. PArPgra. f ea*th •t It still belongs ti the csn and b,l nor, to the Coencll of FreeCsechsloeca, lod by RIPKA. Tho second creep, accoreing to the evnlentionof AC4ALA. pe:ple and the optnionn of nbi; woll-inform ei Sloiekr. feels thatIt in iw.rt of the nore-coat led by Catholicise ant is enner the leadership ofthe former Slevakinn g tnintor pro7c tly to Wnshingtne. The etr,4-.4est3erre,- •:t-Alse ef thle gtemp in the (corer Si,vakinn sabnsendor to the Vatican,lo. preee lar in Bar ii. S".:Ti And IYfAiMY wep.ort an independentSI ovahin within the framework of a f c 'oration of rntiebe Suttee. In this3inse they arm, with FIZAJOI.A Ana n lame pert of the Sedeten 0nranns. Thisend...rot. by SIPA add tr%CA!!!WT finds Its chief report In the 7ntican, whiathne ii ot eene intorcot in the re-beading of st Catholic federation in thelinwebe coentries. rsithor MC:4CA' . nor the Sedeten dernens nor the 'SlovnlanneMt. pnrtic-larly close connectione to Otto Ton li 3 3Z"PC. Only the /et-tr*only Cm.holic groans reckon with a ret..,rn Of the ILO 71r:Gs. The cloeesteo p nmc. than. in this respect in between Otto eon ILiSMi tiO and thoawlerntion, which hnn been soer.ht a-t, repeatedly In recent months and weei,e,In °smelly and Aestrift. by Otto Yon ruani?'141.

All of these nationftlities and micro grottoes have a firm end jointconviction that the time of snn.11, inionendent, national stnt•s ban passedand that in the future a e.n be foetid only within the framework of

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