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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 ONT 0 L • S CRET (18) Detailed Interrogation of Johann SANITZER, Gestapo, Vienna, Section IV2. APPENDIX B. Technique of the Russian Intelligence Services. A. Sections of the NKVD who sent Agents into Germany. 1. The main section, with which subject came "in contact' was one which was only interested in political and military intelligence. It signed its messages with "ZENTHUM" ZPITNUA4A. 7.14(9,sa1et, Chief of. the section was a momanvwhomore the uniform of a major in the Russian Army. About 35 years old, medium height, dark hair, of definite Russian origin. None of the Russian agents remembered her nano. This woman was apparently married to a well-known member of the Viennese L. .schutzbund, a certain DCBRI1ZBERGER(7) from Florisderf, Vienna. DOBRITZBEdGER(?) ene, at-tlie—fare, leading 4 group of partisans. This section sent the agents of the following Funkspiele in negartiertacher tine", nquartiermacher Zwe ',Burgenland", n.apenrosen , "Hausharaaerfold";1 "Rote Mauer'", "Stalingrad", "Rote Moerderk (cover naraes given by subject). • 2. The second section of the LIND encountered by subject was only interest- ed in sabotage and attempts an the lives of high Nazi officials.. Its messages were signed "IIRMTOR". Leader was unknown. 3. The headquarters of these two sections and their radio-stations were located in Musalw by the German DP-units. - Clear texts were in German. Be Section of the Komintern, which sent Agents in. 4. This seCtion, apparently did net send in many agents. Subject d p es not remetber, anyway, many who were captured. The only Eoantern team captured was played back by subj,vt under the cover name of nLindwurmn . The Homy messages were signed KOPLENIG (loader of the Austrian section of the Komintern)bervis and DrdAROV (secretary-general of the Komintern). The Komintern sender was . much weaker than the REVD senders and ocntacts wore. generally bad, especially on moonlit nights. 5. According to subject, there ana a possibility that about 20 nSchutzbund 41::::::) children" (see below) miebt have been dropped in Tito-occupied territory. OnCiazis, of them, called SANDMA rwas arrested in Klagenfurt (end of 1944). The rest of the group was to go into Styria and from there into Vienna, when conditions* were more favorable. *Nothing MGTO was heard from this group. LEA C. Agents sent. by the Russian .,xny (FrontaufklaerungestruPPen)• 111MRSA 6. Such agents-groups were either . purely Garman. POW's (as in the case of . the Funkspiel "Theise n ) or a mixed group, consisting of a Russian officers one or more German POWs or German-speaking nationals (Rumanians, Hungarians, Serbs, etc.) who were to act as courriers and a. 11/T agent(taleer fetaIp). . • Y Between December 1944 and larch 1945, five such mixed groups were captured, according to subject.. In one case five personnelparachutes'were diseevered .11Pirxes2 but the agents Tiore ncver fcund. The were supposedloratrking in Slovakia. attar _ emmunv-in Wigtitg D. Origin of Agents sent by the Russians. 7. The agents:sent in by theMKVD.consietsimainly of: a: Spanish Ciyil War veterans, who lad as/grated to Ressia(BURNER and RaND)RF of the Funkspiel n etartiermacher Eins",..41NOMMANN and CON OL TOP CRET 41:0:20 'UM"
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