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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.
.. LISA Nr-mcvsa C 0 h i&ø L • TO SE ET (17) intelligence about allied radio-materiel, radio-procedure and general technical devolepments. It is from this section that subject received technical information about the new cm-frequencies of the Americans, about an American set which apparently transmitted the dots and dashes on different wavelengths, about the special American WIT key Oboe or horizontal high speed key).- 3. The entire staff of the IV2, RSHA section consisted of about 52 man. (1945). Amongst the personnel of the IV2b section, with which subject had the most to do, he ramonberal ),F14 Horst gOPKOW, one of the youngest griminal Kommisaars in tho .9 Gestapo end, according to subject, an extraordinarily able man. Sub-- jeot received thy impression during his last interview with KoPKuW (January 1945) that the latter considered the situation hopeless and that he wanted to give up his present work and fight in the masks of German Army against the Russians. Subject thinks that KUPEDW has realized his wish and that he might now be in Russian captivity. KOPE011mes her.d of both the Ipla and the Iv2b sections.- bs griminaIrat Thomas AMLETUFG an aide to /WAN for tho Funkspielea Subject thinks that this man might have sought a refUgo in Switzerland. He was in charge of all tho plays in Eastern Oermamy and took tho personal direction of the plays against tha "Rote gappolIo n . .1 personal antagonism existed between subject and AMLETUR, whom subject suspects of having spoiled a certain nunbor of plays, which subject considered very promising.. cs griminal gemmissar EUELLER(Ofiristian name unknown),.who busied himself with technical intelligence about 11/T materiel. `--0(ds griminal Kommissar Haas MIL; very young, took ovor:the direction v of the Punkspiele in Austria, from AMLETZER, around the end of 1944. es Kritainal gommissar Hans STRUEBINO: Executive officer for all Funkspiele and was especially charged with the executive side of the Ftnikspiele against the "Eote Kappelle" - It was to him that all in- : formation about the arrest of Allied agents was to be teletyped. all further gathered intelligence had to be forwarded to him.: fs grininal OberinspektOr SCHOUR; 412 administrative officer of minor import/awe. gs Kriminal eber-assistent KLIN3r24. Utica subject only knew became he had received a visit from him in Vienna.. In griminal sekretaer HEISEv Worked in AMLETZER's office. Very active. loos in someway busy with Russian agents, but only as an evaluator or intoll i gence obtained through the Funkapielo. 4. Subject's reticence about the work-methods of the IV2b section RSHA seems r, to be explained by his relation of the following incident: a special agent , ai.alls:,,mgifrom the RSHA IV2b section, then on a mission in Vienna had told a mtmaa , acquaintance of his that a number of Funkspiele wore played by office - -, k e Zt, 4 against the Russians. This woman had informed Stalin of the facts, through the Russian Embassy in Swed4n. Some minor official had informed subject of the betrayal, during-one of his official visits in Berlin. SANITZER had ro-• .ported this to his own chief, HUBER, who, in turn, related the facts to : avg..-41-44134 the cuief of the entire Iv-section of the RSHA. The latter had severely r --. '• mended KOPKOW and his men, who from then an were ratRer reticent about their 1 N4.21015'4+2 doings in front of SANITZER. C 0 N T'it 0 L TOP 4CRET
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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.