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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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ne -f his own employees to gather the information. Subject then sub-
mitted the obtained information to the RSH4 throughIc. It would come
back sometimes after one week, and about 99,.; of it would be blue-
pencilled. Single, generally known intelligence items were given more
frequently by the itSH“:
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allowed to send himself in order to have Moscow note his personal
' rhythm of sending ( lifiet"). This was judged highly dangoours by the
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RSHA, but desirable by 'subject for camouflage purposes.
f. ..s.certain number of office aids were used in the playing of the Funks-
piele: .a list of addresses prowidee to the Russians, in • order to
avoid repeating an address alreaay give k. 2. a "Funkspielbuchil in
which a complete recordi was kept, in story form, of each play. This
book. has never been completed and was destroyed by Subject beforehis
141,i0tt.-. 3. a: radio log, containing day, hour, length of transmission,
Cell.signs(in the case of changing call-signs) frequencies used, etc.
This log was also destroyed by subject.
5. Generalities about the Funkspiele.
In the beginning of 1945, the IASH* directed or played itself about forty-
five Funkspiole. AS far as subject can remember, Funkspiele were played in
the following places: Vionna,l Brunn, Prague, Berlin, Keenigsberg, Dantzig,
Verona, etc. He. thinks that some more-were played in Posen or Thorn in
Hamburg and a French one in Southern aermany. li the others were either
Russian, Polish' or British.
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