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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.
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C .0 N R 0 L ELNLAI enamaim iligettaV 026$*24:r`g,Vg KC= Eamvula 4:0* S,E CRET / (13) established there his cipher-peraohnel and kis WIT operators. • 48.. All police personnel n6d already redeive4 orders since 1944 tk allow the anew to surround Vienna and to fight it out with the'Ruisians. Subject had received the ardor to try tbtlarduado4omo RUSaian double agents to nollabo- rate with moue Gestapo people $.6 penetratatho Russian lines and frtm there send messages to the Frontatikt4aartnige truPpen. Subject finally managed to build the' four following grouPat - • 1. Soucek, Kersche and SubjeCti ' • 1 -2. NRAZ, and Subject's depUtys4refórent, Kriminalrat ANDRLE 3. B0RET710 MALJER and another ompluyee . ,Inten BRUEDL. 4. UNBEHAUMI and another employe-0j Hand SMIRECK.. . . , Charabteristically all li/T operators,were to be vomen. r to Salzburg. 49, The 3rd of ,April a certain gibber atagente' who4pierp'aide lodged at the • . . Villa were transported elsewhere* GiNSTeand SVOBODu taimmates of Lt. lisTUAO s2 the ..-, ss), the Ukrainian cxople of e runkspiel TigDP7-Hldegard Rios. FUCHS hlid 1eady been transferred. . -- 50.'.Subject had 'quite a lot of diffidbitY. iti ehiedning .011 atippiied for the . eventual missions and had to resort to personal . acquisitiohs for tobacco, food, etc., and to requisitionfor a little ammunition, handwoapone, and a few trucks. • . , 51. The 3rd of upril Vienna was declared a fortified city and the following • day was spent evacuating the ytnen of Subject's employees. • . 52: . The previous clay Subject had sent a w/T op.,:rator with !to S1::Karl NAOS . to Krems, and frum there .the punkmeister was to proceed burg where he was . to establish a communicatices center. He had already assembled all the WIT sets and had received the necessary cipher sista= from the Rstia. . . 53. The th of upril Subject was ordered by his chief to transfer his Referat . . ... to Florisdorf.and to send an employee there immediately as installation person- • nel. In the evening subject informed his agents and his employees of the new eituhtion end ordered them to-moethim in Florisdorf the next day with all the sets and, the equipment. AB for thaagents they wore told.to,proCeed in requisitioned cais also to Florisdorf under the guidance of Subject's housekeeper. ' . . • . •• The next day Subject didn't find most of his People inilorisderf. apper.entii. • some shooting had been going on in town, the rumor had been Spread that the • Ruasians wore there and everybody had scattered. Of the entire group only UNBEHAUEN had remainedand the housekeeper. .. ' 54. .1110 8th of ...pril,.Subject was again told, to move and ordered his fey • . , romnining people to proceed to Zwettelin on the Niedordonau. Tat . •daYa.aCter-..; --. wards he broughthtspople hick to Krems. The 12th,he contacted.the-chiet • .'...,. , of. ic of the Beeresgruppe, Oberstleutmant colmARIT,BESG and hi .o. 14..C...i..1.A..6..j (4b*ehroffitier) captain-Dr. STECHEROWith whom he had had. frequent . . rolatiOna dUring;bia . previbus7Fairaties. The next day Subject heard thak. the same RITTBXRG hmibaen shot for trying to floes the cbuntryi,, SubjeCt . decided to tranefer his group to .Salzborg,a.s,the,Ger marcarmy hasideCLifoi, Trrol.aa'a for-trees. to beheld. :uround the 20th oneof-his most-trait:Id employees- Anton . BROD4'and teo trucks', left ter-Salzburg . ,Subjedt;sent his Funkneister.)6L.S.s! again to Krebs to establich,soie comMunicationa between.• C 0/11(eX-CR 0 RETT0P L
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