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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.

  • p. 3 …SCHUB41, thd then Police President, he was promised a commission, but it never . Materialized. In 1930he…
  • p. 8 …then occupied by Polish guerrillas it was never recuperated, and Subject "persuaded,' thei to begin a…
  • p. 9 …But that never wttkect out well.- Then Subject ' • began with HOTIARY. ant'll. his written , signal…
  • p. 10 …agents had a signal plan, but they never had to repeat theirnossages and ! . nessages of over…
  • p. 11 …Subject's Pah naiY have drunk tOomuphand missed Mn.- He never tained up again. SubjeCt-AVtlais…
  • p. 24 …was now convinced that the woman had never received any money from the Swiss man, n…
  • p. 30 …when a safe address was given, subject never gave the address of • V.Leute, but had…
  • p. 31 …has never been completed and was destroyed by Subject beforehis 141,i0tt.-. 3. a: radio log…
  • p. 33 …Later intercepts showed that these headquarters mere never able to keep their promise. 12. In another…
  • p. 35 …GUTTAiMANN would never have given himsalf :up had_hemot suffered his soriors logwohnd. .. He was sufficiently…
  • p. 36 …A courier who was Sent there to getthe.; signal.plan never reachod Subject.
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84 .Service with the Vienna Police.
s ll.. Subject entered the Vienna Police Service on 1 January 1928. he knew
y . SCHUB41, thd then Police President, he was promised a commission, but it never .
Materialized. In 1930he was transferred from his apprentice job to the
Technische ,btallung, on the basis of his knowledge of chemistry. The • mission,
of this section at that time was to find .a chemical weapon for use' egainst
disturbance:ilk this they found in Chloracetaphonon. When the Subject enter-.
ed the }laic.), he took a special police training during the first two Years
.while also serving on -She force as a regular polic,men. From DOeMber 11Z9
until June 1930 he served as a patrolman in the X Buzirk.
12. The TechniCal Section at this time was just becoming interested in .
,radio communications. Radio was just being introduced into the Vienna Policia
then, and since there wore no WiT operators available ) the Technical section,
under the direction of Ing. tA DWASKI, whose secretary subject had 'become,
, was charged with the training -Of Wise operators.. . , .
13. In 1934 DUM..SKI became technical adviser to the Generaldirecktion der
0effen41iche Sicherheit, A10%. I, and the Subject succeeded him in his
job. •subject continued in this job until the Ansobluss. •
C. First service with tho Gestapo Vienna.
144 In 1938 Subject was offered the ehance to attend a f police Officers
School in Munich, but refused on the grounds that ho wanted to. become an
administrative officer. (.:onselquently, about Mareh 1938 he was .transferred,
as oberwachmenn,-to the Gestapo, Vienna soferat (Legitimism4•ReaCtiCh.
and opposition). His chief, at that time, was Dr: Hubert KERNk's°The chief
of the Isitstelle was StUbaf. Franz Josef HUBER.
15. In Svtember 1938, subject bobahe sMte-Assistont (the equivalent:4'7._
Polizei Inspektor ), and attracted ifie.s attlintion of his chiefs 'by finding
• a silverfox fur belonging to a woman WHO know Mrs. Goering and. had Made
quite a political issue Of the theft. the Subject solved-the-myetett,*i
arrested the their, an SD Sonderagant. On the grounds of these
• he was told to direct his aspirations into the field of criminology. .
the Subject did, but was4Irst subjected to two years of schooling and - - .
practice. ibj..ct, was thereafter, pla4ed in the difterent.Refarate...4.:the
• Gestapo and some sections of the Kripo. (.1
16A. . Subject reported in August 1940 to the FuebrerSchUle clOr
at the Schlotstrasse I, commanded by obersturmbannfuehror
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• course lasted until April 1941. Courses studietwere:
tactics, Criminal technique, Abwehr, poliso laws, WoltanschauUngi;:.
psYeiology, criminal tedicine, etc.
17: Apri11.941, subject returned to the Vienna Leitstelle as: a. 1011011214.
t Kommissar (supernumorary) and becamethe aide to the Referent. AOgi.ortiPPF.74
;A M. Joatif AtTENGER whose scOtion was charged with the relirei4Ons tga,tagt,
rUMpr.eqngers and the indictments against insulters of. Ganieiteriumndtighw,. ,•, .
18.At . the beginning of August 1941, ere8seolorwtrnpferred to St.
pooltoa to replace'-tthe ailing dlpar. 9; too mepk;n4ieriat,stox1ci.,, 4riMinalkat
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