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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.

first recognition groupr
second rocignitien group:
CZ
C TJY00 L
T P
$ CHET
(28)
530 In order to inform the other ccrrespondent which Ward of the cipher
Zook one was going to use for the transposition, one had to mention the page
the line and the position of the first word, incur ease page 129, 4th line,
first word. Generally it was agreed upon that the first 100 pages were
used only by Moscow, the next hundred pages by the agent; for this reason
the hundred-digits were not indicated in the group. Thus the group obtained,
is 29041. - This recognition group is generally obtained through the
addLtien of the transposition key mith the first group and the last group
of the enciphered text and then placed at a previously arranged place, for
example at the beginning and at the end and reversed.
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original recognition group 29041
plus first cipher group 01960.
, '''20SICCr
original recognition group Z/041
plus last cipher group 51110
-"7015:r
This is thus the form of the absolutely anal alpha' text:
U960 71676 20901 60887 44152 70151 05402 51110
i 1M. HJasures taken by the Russians t recognize double agents.
f I 54. urianally no such measures were foreseen. The ones taken later were
rather priamtive according to subject. Hare are a few welch he remembers:
a: the correspondent, when asking for a certain frequency had to add 10 to
it, for instance when askIng for a frequency of 45, ono had to demand 550
b:. Putting the receanitien group at false places. .
The most elaborate ceuntor-measure consisted of the fullemingntrickne._
the fl other side" sometimes asked for the repeet of a certain previous
message, allegedly because they could not decipher it. (Actually the i
message had been checked by subject end-found to be enciphered per- .
fectly). nEentrunz supposed that if the police and not the agent was
was or , ... '
ta
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sending the message, the Aire massage would have been transmitted .
destroy andoncipherel message after it had boon .sent Jaat subject
again. But subject knew that nentrun" had instructed its agents . to '
inforn Nesócw that the message in questien had been destroyed and that
then did to paraphrase tie l_ oesage and encipher it aaain
he could net remoter its text anymore.- This procedure has been used
many tines by "Zentrunli.
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