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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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kofta Ow* CZ2) rikAct, Notki aukkma Stkii.„L"".-44 : swrzeiv C 0 N Tit '6 L T-.0 P S,EURET / (23) I 29. wr NKVD agents carried p-ison in tho lethal form of tablets, surrounded by a rubber epper(abeut five times the le dose), which could be easily con, coaled between the teeth and bitten through at the oportune moment. n 30. Further equipment of the agents c‘nsisted oft ccmpasses, Russian General ,' staff maps(especiaIly the Frontaufklaerungstruppon agents), no cameras, generally no secret inks. Only the Komintern team was found in possession of a secret ink formula an a special kind of microfilm. .. s.ccording to WWII tais ink had beee newly discovered by the Russians, it did not contain aay . silver bromide layer, nor any br ‘ mide grain and coula thus bo made as small as possible; thus a Lull typewritten page could be reduced to a microfilm, the size of a pinhead. Subjecterdored a thorough, sataatifical investigation be held by Dozent Dr. '-head of the Iegal,Uedical insti- tute of the University of Vienna, oily In one case was a camouflaged Shaving- brush found. • I 31. co the team of the Funkspiel nBurgenland o a special chemical was found in a glass appulla with some self-destroying device attached to it. This ampulla was attached to the paracbnte and wa. used to throw off the scent of the bloodlLumds. O. Dwopping Points. 32. as From Russian planes: In Eastern Pruasia(agents of the teams n zartiermadher Eine', KAMM, "apenrosem , liHaushammerfeld n ) - i n In Poland (agents of the plays "Folixdorf s , 10Lindwurmu , "Tiger) - In Hungary (the agents of the groups Il Theiss“, and mgUillecbau ) - In lower .ustria or Burgenland (the agents of the Funkapiele , wStalingrada, !Meter licerdern , 4Bisambergra-rpt wHisambergra , wLeopolds:. berg" the agent DORI,,a greep of six men from the Russian Front- Aufkllarungstruppaffr. , .-) b: From RAF' planes. - In Burgenland (the "Burgenland group'), in greater Vienna (the "Rote Hauer" grtuP)• H. The 4partment Questton. 33. The greater part of the Russian missions failed because of the apart- went question. Before being dropped the NKVD agents received some safe addresses. Uost of them, however, were rather antiquated as they had Beet. '- collected before 1938 by the Vienna office of the Intourist and the Russian Commercial ettaane. , 34. Ancngst tho addresses where agents were to report was the one belonging to a lewyer, Dr. Repel= BANgerof Prins Eugenstrasse, 2 Vienna IV. Dr. BICH.RI had been arather high official at tho . Ukranian Enbasay in Prague, when Ukraine was still independent. Later he loft Ukraine, traveled through the Soviet Union and finally installed hinselrin Vienna as a lawyer. Ho was known to have had close connection with the following persons, who were mainly celebrated for their role in the ,ill-begotten Kapp-Putsch antthai r further unusual destinies: Lincoln .,-:`"LiEBI.TWI and Colene1WERvwho was to die in China, after having been a military adviser to the Chinese lacvernment. This circle, which had also alose*connections with LUDENDORFF, made quite a lot .of propaganda for better relations with tho Soviet Union. In the 1930's BICHAT became unofficial legal adviser to the Soviet Comeercialliission. The agents of the Fankspiel “Burgenlandn received the Order from the NKVia to ep ntact Dr. BICHART-on-all-1001 matters, whieh they did. It was CONTROL TOP 'EGRET 1
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