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Y100- ALFRED K. STERN, aka MARTHA DODD.STERN, .aka While in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 2/16-18/60 and 2/29-3/2/60, Ny 6g4-s* conferred with LADIsLAv K0CMAN (ph), member of the International Department. of the Central Committee (English Section) of the Czechoslovakian CP, as well as (FNU) KADERKA, Deputy in Charge of the International Department of' the Central Committee of the. Czechoslovakian 'CP. While in conference with either kocmAN or KADERKA, informant was asked to speak with.ALFRED K. STERN. and MARTHA DODD.srERN; however, he pointed.out that since he. was operating'in an iliegal, status,. he could not very well, contact these two. individuals or else his status would become known. Informant. advised contacting Agents that shoula he have spoken with the srerns, his cover would have been dissipated at once. The question of his contacting the StERNs was not, raised. again, however, through discussions with KOCMAN-and KADERKA, he gained the impression that the STERN$ were.liying in Prague like millionaires and the Czech Government wished it could. md itself of them. He also was told by an unrecalled,source that ALFreD K. STERN had tired of inactivity and had interposed himself upon the Czech Government setting himself up as a building. construction expert, thus becoming involved in the building construction program of the Czech Government. Informant recalled he had been told SrerN had thotched up his part of the building construction program and had cost the Czech Government about a million dollars..