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German sympathies as was known to the SD. All that H observed was recorded
from memory and transmitted to Rikard who, Hahn feels, passed this infor-
mation on, though he doesn't know a copy of this summary was also given'
to Celmins. At one time H seriously considered making photographic copies
of all information he saw, but thought the riek too great and therefore
abandoned this idea.
In the beginning of March 1942 -- because of the extensiveness of .
the information . at the disposal of Hahn, he began to record this information
(typewrit en) in a bi—weekly summary being assisted in this job at that time
by Romans ternbergs._
(13) As this information that Hahn was receiving assumed very vol-
uminous proportions, enabling him to write extremely lengthly bl-weekly.
reports, Mitrevice thought it a good idea to exePpt such covert information
from. these reports that would be of interest to the German authorities and
supply them with a'similar be—weekly report. Behind all this 'was Mitrevielis
idea that. if sufficient interest in such a product were Aroused in the
German authorities it could give Mitrevics the opportunity to forn an infor -
mation section attached to Rikard's group. The covert purpose for such
an information section being a nationalistically-motivated anti—German
espionage center.
(14) As the gathering of such information progressed successfully,
, further compilations were made of such ite6s as foreign broadcasts,
particularly those of the BBC and some American broadcasts, current and
anti-German jokes and puns, and rumors.
The BBC monitoring was performed by. II and VernerAlumenaus and
several others whom Hahn organised into a ,little 'group so that 411 schedules
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