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search was made of the area. If, for instance, a crash-helmet
was found,it was thoroughly checked for hairs which might give
additional detail to the personal description of the pursued agent.
At the same time all eye-witnesses were assembled and questioned.
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b. Adiscreet eurvoillance was mole of all friends and relatives of par-
sons suspoted of being dropped. This was done by employees of sub-
ject, disguised as gas. Or electrical power company employees, which
allowed them at the same time to make a search of the suspected house.
If tee houso .Loked suspicious, the employees arrested the occupants.
co it technical Wit search was than made by the 0/01 Funkueborwachungs-
stelle and by the Funkmesstelle of the Grenungspolizei, who etuld
comb the suspected area with 0E-cars. Those units would at the same
time establish fixed 0E-stations, in areas wnera previously agents •
Eid'found it cagy to tranamit. lbeso Tiled DFestations were equipped
with registration materiel for the automatic •reccrdingot Wt traffic.
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d. Ifthe agents had boon lonated, they would be arrested by eapleyoes
dieguieed as'reilroadnonl .icable-layers air-raid precaution men, etc.
so as to avoid loss of life on both Ans.
e. As soon as the agent had been arrested, he would be given a complete
change of linen and clothes, so as to avoid a possible suicide attempt
or the destruction of valuable microfilms.
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a0 the aim of the Funkspiel was fourfold: 1. to amid that the Russians
mould send an agent whore they thought that the previous one was safe.'
2. to arrest ether agents: (when new drops were demanded from the
Russians). 3. lb° obtoire;,,g of valuable intelligence' by knowing the
Russian intelligence requirements. 4. the funkspiel permitted the
Germans to send disturbinglnews-to the Russians.
b. The technique of the Funkspiel was tailcr-made to the circumstances.' •
In the beginning the Russians would dictate the sequence of the Funks-
piel by repeating their intelligence requirements and subject would
then adapt his plan accordingly. Later on subject would .try to
dictate ii s wishes to the Russians(at a certain time subject wanted
-t- eansfer a Funkspiel fr4a Gras to Vi. rum and ho suggested the
tranzfer to the Russians until they ordered him to do SQ.:
c. areal oamouflage of the Funkspiel was observed threugt 1: for
instate° when subject interned the Russians that a certain Agent had
moved from one place to another, one of his *plc-yeas actually register-
ed with tho police at that address under the captured agents name;
when a safe address was given, subject never gave the address of
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people, who really thought that they were going to barber agents.:
d. Information sent to the Russians during the Funkspiel was alwals
authentic if "cold". The only exception was the specifically dise
turbing information, which Subject had to transmit on ord.= of the
RSHA. The military infer:at:ion was given to subject, first by IIIf
est Viamla, later by lc of the 4ehrkreiskommendo XVIL'after proper
authorisation by R.SL. When: the thus given information was notehough.•
to be transmitted to the Russians, subject was obliged to send out
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