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RhIMERKNEGHT of the Funkspial ItFelinbrZlI, ZETTLER of the Funkspiel
"Atte ;:auer").
bs Austrian emigrants: KOEHLER of Dinkspiel "Burgenland".
c: Darters: ANGMANN of "Felixdorf", HUTfARY of "Rt ..to Bauer" and
the menbers of the Funkspiel "Rote Hoarder".
d: German POW's, who became members of tho National Committee "Prates
Deutschland.
es. Persons', who had a ntacted some obligations toward the Soviet
Union: li tho Schutsbunl children" . those ware Children of meMbers of
the insurgent RepublicanSchutzbUnd in Vienna who wore arrested after
the February revolt of 1934 and who had been :ululated by the USSR and
educated in a special home in Moscow. (Agents of Funkspiole
"AlPenrsss", "Haushammorfold", and the woman-agent Hildegard RIES.
Another example is provided by Emil RAMBLER, whom the Soviet"Uhion
helped in his studies at the Higher Institute of Physical Culture and
who later received a chair at the gene school. Finally there is the
case of the woman-agent Emilie BOREMIU, atm was permitted to stey in
the soviet Union, after her husband was Snot.
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8 As for th., agents of the /Comintern play, they were all members of the
Communist Party of Austria. RERSCHE became a high functionaryof the Pro-
fintern. SUMER was employedat the Lenin school. NRAZ worked at the
_German-speaking transaissiuns of Radio Moscow.
9. The agents employed by the Russian Aroy were:
\ . la: HeMbers of the National Committee"Freies Deutschland".
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1 ' q,k, b: Volksdeutsche,former members of a national-socialist organisation
their\ y in country of origin or whose relativestelonged to a similar
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- ;organisation (fur instance, a brother with the SS). .
E. Schooling and Training.
10. Training of the NKVD agents was divided in two categories:
a: Radio-communications training: this was generally given in a group
of bungalows in a suburb of bUscow or in another group of houses in
KUSNARENK0(). Each bungalow housed abut five or . .six agents. Agents
of the sane nationdlity were as a nil° notput in the Same bungalow.
They had to adtpt a cover name and were expressly forbidden to reveal •
their private backgrounds. No student was allowed to travel to Moscow
while training at' the radio school.
The radio-ccumunication curriculum consisted of: sending and re-
kceiving (minimum 16 groups per minute); contacts with an unidentified
station; trouble-abating, e.nstruction of receivers and transmitters.
The course lasted from six to mine months. -#. three day cipher *Aria
was given by NICVD official, previous to the departure or-the agent'
in the field.
b: Intelligence training - eaCh. student receiVed individual instruction'.;
by NICVD officials in their ovn quarters. The principal subject was ..,
"agent-lore": 'how to make Caches, bc.w to establish a "letter-box",
how to "shake a tail"(get rid of surveillance);,selectien.and,sMecetie
of rendez-vous, etc. A thorough CL urea in diversionary mothods(sebo '
tage) was given where 'the students were instructed in the hArrilingof
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