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This is a detailed interrogation report prepared in July 1945 by SCI Unit A of the Office of Strategic Services in Salzburg, Austria. The CIA later released it under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Its subject is Johann Sanitzer of the Vienna Gestapo, arrested on 7 June 1945. The report records his biography and police career and describes the radio deception games (Funkspiele) he ran with captured Soviet NKVD and Comintern agents. It also covers arrests he made after the 20 July plot. It has no UFO content.
• • C 0 N r 0 L S,ECHET (10) Later own, when the Russians draw nearer to Vienna, they wanted to inereape the contacts from a few a week to daily ones and that embarrassed Subject even more. Ho had to begin using his imagination He had his man. sick than had him say that he was forced to report to tho police for registration; which led .eventually to his induetion, then th his dischargo, axing to some physical defects, qc., eta. : - L. FunkspieliE,.. (Cov,.ir Name) - 37. This group consisted-of the agent 4NGIMUNN, a Viennese and his w/T. 'S" c . operator KDRUKNECHT. These) men were Zropped on Waitsun 1943. They were found eut -bocadEtilirbloody stains on a *:$ RMK banknote (Soo Appendix Bo. para.- 1n g).: . . . Mesa two agents did not belong apparently to the sane section of the hICVD ) as the provious agents. To begin with, their mission was sabotage and ,1 attempts on the lives of highor officials. Then-their messages ware to be • . .,;:i cent to sI DIREKTuR9 of the NKVD,. (The other NKVD agents addressed their 1 1 nessagei to il ZiNTRUIV). Tbe. fi Zentrund men had to repeat their messages ttmo and time -a-Pin, until they wore recetved .perfectlylbygescov, The DEW i agents had a signal plan, but they never had to repeat theirnossages and ! . nessages of over 50 groups were not allowed; nor worethey asked to. repeat• than if they were, not letter-perfect, ' .• .1NGERNaNN was already in Sunjeot's files. They wore in German any uniform. S. denunciation cane in whon a paratrocper had boon seen looking for.* • apartnant. a search was made and La/CFR/LYN had been arrested at)lis' lather's house. =MAI managed to escape to tho swiss frentier and was• arrested thero. Ho tried to' shoot ono of Subject's men at the time of his . capture. • sum of about 6000 RN was found in iNGERHaHN's father's place. a certain amount of German oxpIosives (regular TNT), axplosivo caps and safety rase - was fuumi in Folixdrf in a cache; also a German machine pistol. Contrary to the other agents sot which was a "Jack" set, theirs was.a DEMUR • • •\ to connit sabotage and to nurder a • each of waich had been designated by Subject does nct raze:Tibor who was was four. They were supposed to:etecute agents amongst. former 'Spanish Civil echutzbund members,. Their mission; as already stated, was certain number of Nazi personalities, dnumber. Hitler' was one, Goering two (-)ihentltiliZn ryltrliggrigtelin war vaterans(?) and former Republican. They were also ' ,Persuaded', to coop. ate with.SUbject, lbe.latter.beganhiS play by . swing that ho had contacted some members. of' the Schutibundald going to perform some sabotage, at this particular time, the einunitien.,-:: .factory.ENZESFELD burned down. Subject 'know that it wtensusedby sone • negligence, as his- sect on was doing the sabotage investigation, He formad .Noecow that this' was the work of ..NGERHANN,..but Moscow answered that they were not particularly interested in sabotage and that'nushoars•wairte be done away with (Bablut:.vOnSCHIRAM). TbeRSH.1 thaught-that.thiawoUld be a very good propagindOmeens; but KaLTAI.BRDHNER fearad that bin rival $CHIRACR, might' gain' too much popularity thn:agh thisetuntand he Opposed it violently. Moscow insisted that pc radio traffic-ass ,t6 be had:with,then 'until SCHIRaCH was,killed.so the play finished there and then, :. ANGERMAN Contitted suicide in January, 194k. Subjoct published a notice the papers that a Russian agent . had been discovered, killedby hanAling plosives, which he was goingto- ase-for terroristic deeds and that a.nan of • , C 0 N . T-0 0 L T .0.1) p4 R T tam= witrz,M Cma:D Lzk.-1413e: AFP...1EA CC% sgse.xv73 'Aeik0.13 AMIErWeA
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 47 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.