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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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'1r C 0 14 T PrO L cf P -'4 (3 (32) Detailed Interrogation Ropert of Johann SZITZFR, Gestapo, Vionna,Secticn IV 2. 4gemidix C. Interception of Alliod WT Traffic in South-Eastern Germany. a. Organization of the Monitoring Services. 1. ?ne task of monitoring Allied Wr agent traffic was divided amongst the OrdnUngspolizei, charged with the monitoring of stations within the Reich and the Government General of Poland, and the monitoring units of the Gorman Argy, charged with the same task, but for traffic outside the Reich. 2. The OrdnungsPolizei had a contra], .unit in Berlin and many sub-units all over the Reich. .....:. :..• '• 3. The monitoring Units of the German Gan. Hers. (uVi FUnkueberwachungs- . stelle) has also its central unit in Berlin and many sub-units. The roe.... iaexitaliocommandarin Berlin was Najor von B.F2 The South-Last was moni-' .tored by thelunkueberwachungsstelle Sued-oat,(commender Hauptmann HONES BAUER). Vienna, which had many sub-stations in .thons, Sofia Budapest and towards the end of the war also in Graz, Klagenfurt and Pressburg. 1. - .. . 4. Later on the different monitoringunitsbegan specialising and the Ordnungspoldlei began only monitoring Russian agait-traffic while the 0K4 Funkuoberwachungestollen supervised only tne British and the .morican traffic. 5. the Russian circuits wore celled WN.-lines (after the call-sign of the first intercepted Russian agent-circuit), the British lines bore the number 51, while the .m:Jricari lines were designated as 58-1imas. Individual cir- cuits were than furtna. numbered: 1151-23 11 would thus designate the 23rd inthrtepted circuit c.f a British agent. 6. .ccording to the 1W-units, the central British receiver was located in Bari, while the central .merican receiver was in .driana, somewhat south of Bari. T. Since it is relatively oasy to distinguish between individual oircuitS owing to their idiosyncrosios(the u fistn of the sender, the rhythm of the transmission, etc.) and since the 1W-unitscculd easily locate tho different .places cf the 'transmitting agents, it became relatively easy to draw a general picture of the .1lied agent-traffic. .map showing those lucations was added to the monthly activities report, issued by the OM Funkueberwachung. B. benitoivd Circuits. 8. The following radio-nets wore mcnikred, intercepted and broken by the PUnkueborwachung: 1 , e.... A certain number of 51 and 58 circuits, originating from Tit07. . Odcupied territory. i J). C. A. very 'interesting and politically extremely well-informed Polish eirduit With a central station in Istanbul. p. a Czech Circuit with a central station in Istanbul. , .9. Thu ciphers of these Circuits were apparoatlybrokencjay%the Research spe .0f .the. '41iniitry of'.erenaUties(PnreahUngs,:dimt des inftfebit**00-446S):iH-''' The interested saaticinivOrthe'llestape regularly ren0064,t*orear, Oftheintareepts;throughthe.iiitermediary-ef-the-Ma.):':*WOl]. asserts that lid:receivedtheile int4rcePta :,untilarCha945, thet'iiiaajOng.. .,• .i."- ., • •:.:.., ••. . ..,:•.:„ :. .: ., : T ..0 P ' C. 4: T C7L,3
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