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or potential significance for the new National Socialist 3tate."
In recognition of those merits. the rD, by decree of 9 June 1954,
was made the sole political intelligence service of the National
Socle list Part*/, The decree stipulated that "asidi a the SD
of the RF-SS, no intelligence or espionage service of the Party
Is permitted to exist." All other Intelligence services -within
the Party .Tore dissolved and the personnel transferred to the SD«
Organizationally the SD was directed by the so-callei flshgr-
ha i t ohauptarat (Security Main Of rise), oie of the three main
offices then in existence within the ReirftsfuM^uife ss (SS Supre;ae
Command) 0
When, In 1936, Himmler became Chief of zhe German Police
he appointed Heydrich as Chof dor Siehe rhe it spoil: 7 hief of
i security Police) which combined the functions and administra­
tion of both the Goatapo (Secret State Police) and the Kr-lpo
(Criminal Police), However, denpite the merger within the top
command, as noted above, both S.po and SD retained their organiza­
tional identity and continued to function as two soperate services«
The decree of 11 November lSSE 1 established a soxaevhat closer
liaison between the two services. The decree stated:
"The Sicherheitsdienst o? the RPSS (SD) as the intelligence
- organization for Party or.d state — especially to
assist the Sicherheitspolizei — lias to perform Ira-
1. Printed In the Ministerial bulletin (Ministerialblatt) of
the Reich and Prussian Minister of the interior, fflsl "40,
p. 1906, 1930, quoted in ' e .Tier Best, Die Pout •:che Polizei.
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