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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 OFT OL T P CRET (25). >oft Chow C=i) Cens, &WI awarra Nuarrio COD) IAA look for a Hungarian, called RABID, 'Menthe RSHA suspected of being the 0-leader of the Russian agents group in Switzerland. RADLO was known to have tried to leave for Hungary. A, little later the RSHA was informed that R4110 was againoperating in Switzerland. 40. Subject trial to get a compbte picture of those money transfers and after a certain tine was able to piece the following picture together: The "Swiss man" was identified as a certain Manfred von GRIMM, who was liv- ing with his mother in Davos, in rather strained financial conditions. He was the son of the latelConsul General of Austria in the Netherlands, the retired General mum, and a rephew of Mrs. SEIDLZH, from whom the Russian agents were tv receive the money in Vienna. The RSHA possessed quite a volumfmous dossier On CAP0W, ae_the latter had tried to organise an Austrian -/ Intelligence Service before.,l2M without having received any official per- mission After 11 March 1908, GRD.21 had fled to Switzerland had had apparently joined the Britian- Intelligence Service. Replayed some landing role amongst the Austrian aristecracy in Switzerland and was known to agitatt in favor of the legistiaistic cause. He claimed to be an intimate friend of Otto von FLIBSBURG. 41. Further identification between tithe Swiss mina and GRIMR was made by an agent of tie RSHA, vino noted that as soon as the Amen from Switzerland" was asked tccontact tno 'pixie around the Prince of Liechtenstein, GRUIRI: began to renew his acquaintance with a friend of the widow of the late Lte, Prince of Liechtenstoin,l,a woman called Mer321_, in Vaduz, 'IRTMU had- tad her to cote mad seehLm frequently in Zueffi7BB -bis sojourn in Vaduz might cause his arrest. 'I GRIMLOs acquaintance certainly served only the purpose to allow the Russian agent from the Austrian Aristocracy te pontinue hie or her into li gence Work. It appeared later that mum worked for both the British and the Russians, under the cover of the legistimistic movement. I, 42. Another tine, the agent of the Funkspiel uwartiermacher Eine MBA instructed to take a certain mounter money out of a cache in the Vorarl- berg. The man, win had established . the cache then denounced an Alsatian naraed BLUM, who was arreitech This BLUR had been working for the Intolligenc Services of the Entente daring the first 4orld'iar and had still close connections with the British Consult° in Zurich. Brom this inquest it was learned that GRIMES was alBritisharont and stuultaneously a Russian agent. It could not be,established .Whethen there were any arrangements between' BLUR and GRIMM concerning the cache in the Vorarlberg aid the financial 'arrangements in Yienea. Neither was it established who was the Russian agent belonging to the 4Ustrian aristocracy. .1 % 43. The Evasion agents were to account strictly for the money they:had re- ceived. Every agent received a monthly pay of 400 to 600 Rmk., but was allowed to reimburse his travel expenses., All other moneys were to be used as pay or sub-agents or were to be held at the disposal of the AVM . J. Radio-Com;:maicatkon with Hosnow. 'Me' 44. i:ontaots were made generally on a frequency hand of 30 to 70 meters. INCrm originridy fixed eall-siOs were used, but later these caLl-signs were °hang.. 1 - ( 1 ed daily, established according to a certain scheme Involvinga pre- ' 8101.5NY'Jli I arrange", phrase. The signal plan foresaw thit either Moscow or the agent SW.:',Avy; . • mould call for five minutes on the main frequency. If no contact was ostah- 4,vm41.7 liseed, then the calls were repeated on the secondary frequency far euother.-wmegg,'„, half hour. But there always existed a possibility of callilmg each other - oatsideSthe foreseen hours, by simply GPI. The 01:or QRY were not encoded. NammeAkA4 C 0 N 0 L 7 0 P ,YE C 1 E 1'
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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.