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XeAe%e November 52, ~ page two s is so severe, that only abovt one-tenth of those who enter school ere eventually selected foo wonk,. Fully trained and accepted agents, as soon as they leave school, are sent out on special assignement,. They are well paid for the job and receive additional subsidies for dependents. However, members of their family have to stay under volice control in their homeland, This is an efficieint means of pressure, a guarantee that the agent,-sent on a foreign mission, will keen faithful to the line prescribed, Baeh agent is sent to a specific place with a well-determine missione He might come as "refugee" and seek work in one of the large Western industrial centers, In that case, he has to establish contact with his co-workers and ereate unrest and dissatisfaction. He has also to survey his working place, the means of production, the transportation ete. He has to approach the local leaders and experts, become friendly with them and find out inhowfar they can be won for communistice foals. The agent might also be sent to Austria or Germany, in order to contac: politicians, scientists, business people or prominent personalities. Hor each of them, he has to secure a full record, containing all the social or personal weaknesses, the economic conditions, the financial ties, the moral or character fanlts ete. Such evidences of course are precious as means of possible blackmail and pressure, to be needed in the future, The most important duty laid before such agents however, is the infiltration into refugee and expelice eroupse The agent¢Y is to secure confidence of his co-nationals, to partichpate in the leadershiy of their organizations and thus to acquire valuable informations and to influcnee their policies and decisions, Ail informations secured through its agents are gathered at the Prague Foreign Institute, It works in close conneetion with all the interested ministries: the Foreign Affairs, the mrpmmrx trade, information, defense and police devartments,. News are given on to whom they are concerned and action is coordinated, Our observers from Eastern Germany report instances where . the work of such agents have become evident among expellees. In recent weeks, cases happened repeatedly especially in Saxony that expellees settled there were suddenly arrested by East-German Secret Police and sent to Czccho-Slevakia for "confrontation" or "trial", accused of participation in a smuggling ring. Inveriably it wes the case of such people who still had contact over the border with their relatives or friends in Czecho-Slavakia, or who had helped or sheltered "refugees" as they were erossing the frontier from Bohemia to Germany, From Sudete eireles in West Germany, on the other hand, warning hat also come. They feet that agents are trying to infiltz#ate in some of their organizations, as informations = some of very personal nature = are known to have been reported back to Czech authorities, 40.
