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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
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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
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