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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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45. The procedures usea ind.udel: the regular c-signals, the international
amatour code, arid the international amateur conventional phrases.
46. The heading of . themessage mntained: the call signs, an urgency •
signal and a number Troup. The classificati on of urgency fellows:
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GK ordinary message.
RDO: urgent.
GR : number of groupsfollowed by the digits.
KO Ihe Russian Cipher system.
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Z7, The bari =igt.X1=-XatterOa:hs11;a gtft .:digr.:s
or certain parts of phrases wore changed into numbers. Nulls wore uted to
fill in the 5-groups. 7he enciphering was done with the aid of a previously
arranged book.. The finalk.nciphering was aiortrli= sato/actlegfalL
additions" between the ground bay phrase
of the ether parts of thelgroups and retaining of only the last digits).
The final results were transcribed in five letter groups. only in one case
was an arbitrary gmuping of tne final results demanded. The groups which
indicated which page and which line were used in the book for enciphering
purposes were generally rePeatod in the beginningand the endof the message
(see ex=ple below)
The clear text. was generally German except in the case of the Konitern group
where Russian was used, although allcencerned knew Russian rather badly,
they were Austrians and knew German perfectly.
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L. Example of a Russian cipher.
48.ABGDEFGHIJK LMN0 P
12 16 31 36 61 65 8l 851.317 32 '37 62 67 82 86
S . TUVWX/ Z
34 38 63 68 83 87 15 19 35 39 64
4- sign to be used in front of digits
EXAMPLE:
B IN G UT OELANDET.
16 13 67 81 63 38 ', 81 61 37 12 67 36 61 38 35.
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Formation of a further hay-phrase ; usin g a pre-arranged group,
for instance 27385 1
2 7 3 8 52770 3 8 5 124 7DZ .81. !
B I NGU E L Al
16 13 67 81 63 38 81 61 37 12 67 36 61 38 35
-2 -7 3 -8 -5-2 7 -3 .4 -5 -2 -7 -3 -8 _5
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3 7 2 29 • .
49. cnnstruelon o the transposition with • e ail of a eertaintook and a
ker..nuaer: book: Kurt 1,asswitz t s oAuf mei Plawbe n . Used text: Page 129.
Fcurth line, beginning with the following words "Daman demApparat auf ein
und dieselbe Stelle eingestellt halt ... 11 Key-nether 2457.
50. construction of the transplosition: a. censtruction of a new alphabet.
b. construction of the nuebers4basis of the transposition text until numbers
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