[4] Under the pretext of preparations for fortification work, the best-armed "Malár" East Slovak Army (1st and 2nd Infantry Division) was strengthened, which, according to his plan, was to open the Carpathian passes to the Soviet troops.

The plan also envisaged that the Field Army in Slovakia would carry out a coup d'état against the nazi-controlled Slovak government, and establish a military dictatorship, which would control the state until the free elections could be held.

However, member of the delegation Lieutenant Colonel Mikuláš Ferjenčík did not meet with Moscow-based General Heliodor Píka, who was under the command of the Czechoslovak exile government based in London, until September 2, 1944, when the Uprising was already in full swing.

Even before Lt. Col. Ján Golian's speech with a call for military resistance against the occupiers, which was broadcast via public radio broadcasting service in Banská Bystrica, General Čatloš announced in his speech (conceived by Slovak fascist propagandist Tido J. Gašpar) in the Bratislava radio the arrival of German occupation troops in Slovakia and called on the Slovak army not to resist.

[7] Four days after the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, on September 2, 1944, he managed to escape from the presidential palace to Banská Bystrica, where he put himself at the disposal of the insurgents.