I supplied the Mašíns with ammunition before their escape

When the Mašín brothers decided to leave Czechoslovakia in October 1953, they visited Vladimír Hradec who had been helping them acquire weapons on a long term basis: “Radek, (Ctirad Mašín: editor’s note), came to see me on Saturday the third, and stated that they would run away that night. Milan Paumer came along as well. At my place, they prepared their weapons and cleaned them. Milan had a nine millimeter caliber, I lent him a hammer so that he could hammer down the numbers on the gun to destroy the evidence of the weapon’s origin. I gave them ammunition, they needed nine millimetre bullets and ammunition for the 7.65 mm calibre range gun. They had two 9 mm guns and a 7.65 mm one. They asked for my opinion on whether they should take with them some kind of a hand grenade or a machine-gun. In the end they decided against these options, they expected to be in Berlin in the course of three to four days. But it turned out to be much more complicated, than anyone had anticipated at first.” The Mašíns did not invite Hradec to join them, he explains this by claiming that he would end up like Janata and Švéda if he had decided to go: “Pepík, Radek, and Milan Paumer would run twenty kilometers a day. They were preparing themselves, they were in a good physical condition. Švéda and Janata didn’t do that, I was no sportsman either. I wouldn’t be able to keep up, just like the two weren’t able to.”