I carried out information by keeping them in my head

In 1942, when Miroslav Kácha graduated from grammar school, he managed to avoid service at the Luftschutzpolizei (Air Protection Police) thanks to a doctor of his. He started to work in Libeň at a factory called Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik AG (which later became ČKD, a Czechoslovak engineering company) where locomotives, tanks and personnel carriers were made. A so called Panzerjäger which served as the new tank destroyer was also a product of this company. Miroslav Kácha cooperated with the resistance movement while he was still a student. His experience helped him in carrying out espionage in the factory: “The ‘other’ side was naturally interested in inside information. Many of my acquaintances were working in the factory, including my brother who had worked there since 1940. I worked at the department of technical inspection, so, I was able to pass on information almost without any risk. I knew what was being made and where it was being made...” Kácha did not write down the information he gained, he just remembered everything. “When someone started writing things down, it was the beginning of the end. Either fools could do that, or people who weren’t aware of the situation. I already had some training as a resistance fighter.” Kácha passed his information on to former commissioned officers whom he knew from the organization Defending the Nation, for which he carried out small tasks as a student. However, at the time he had no knowledge of what was further done with the information he provided: “Later I found out that it was sent to Vysočina where the ‘Council of the Three’ had its seat. They communicated with England via radio-transmitters. Thank goodness I wasn’t revealed; otherwise I would be long gone by now.”