[EVENT] Arbeitsgruppe des Ministers Aufgabenbereich "S"

!In accordance with the Minister of State Security's directive and in coordination with the relevant main departments of the Ministry for State Security, the organizational and operational formation of a special working group is hereby ordered:!<

!The working group is formed from carefully selected employees of various Stasi service units, both armed and unarmed units. Only comrades who have demonstrated up to now firm political and ideological convictions in the service of Marxism-Leninism and the Anti-Fascist People’s Democratic Order, have extensive service experience (preferably from Spain, or the War) and possess a particular aptitude for covert, long-term, and independent work are to be appointed to the working group.!<

!The working group is to establish a chain of command that remain operational under extreme circumstances, with communications that can function independently of all regular and established communication channels. The working group should maintain a readiness that can be activated in special situations. All measures must be carried out in a manner that does not allow any understanding of the working group's activities whether by domestic or by foreign groups.!<

!The existence of the working group, its tasks, and its personnel are subject to the strictest secrecy. Mention of the working group in administrative files, planning documents, or personnel records is to be strictly avoided, except where administratively unavoidable. All manner of mentions of the group when deemed necessary should be innocuous and vague.!<