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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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as there .Waa"direCi .caMaintialton betwOon Vienna and Berlin.
C. Examples of intercepted Messages.
10, series- of intercepts from Tito-country contained tho traffic be- •
tween some tailed missions with Tito and thoir Heade/carters in Italy.
Subject only remembers the name of a Major LINDSal;the was literraievod
by a Major CaliUSi..C.te!The litter ; s headquarteTIV5io apparently in Rosental,
in Carinthii7Taards.the and of the war. The intorcupted mesaages con-
tained mainly o,1aintè from the ..11iod missions '.but handicaps put in
their way by the Tito-mon and more specifically by tho political commissars.
11. Some messages concornod infiltration cf ag.mts. Subject remembers the
case of a . grcup cf British agents cwrating in the Vienna area who operated
only an elotter-boxes e and who were assured by their headquarters that they
mould receive a 'W/T set. Later intercepts showed that these headquarters
mere never able to keep their promise.
12. In another case, a "safe address e vas mentioned, amsely the fans of
awidow in Southern Styria. This farm was then observed by the IV3 a section; •
of the Stelle Salzburg.
• nother message mentioned that Mac and Harry had been droppod.taind
in the Eor-alpe e . -Subject was later informed that this message concerned
the British captain Cranford Mac and his teammate 'Rudolf STUELHOFER. Subject -
was to use the liasset for hisFunkspiel e lhemse e (see appendix E).
1144 When the German Paul FOELUML,-p.Britieh agent, was droppedand ar-
rested in the Laibach area7Tn--Xfiterceptsof a e51e circuit contained a
message to all ether British agents, whom i0E1MERL had 'clown ordering them
to cease all actiyities and disappear, is the prisoner 'had cCinfessei and .
had-thus endingered .tffo,41Wairifla pf.his. comrades. •...Subjcat .addathat te
hie knowledge, POEURERL was still in prison in Vienna when he left the town.
15. In February 194a message Was intercepted announcing the constitUtion
of.a. Yugo. -Slav committee of Liheration.in.Grez:mith.the exact:names aW -
prefessions . af . the londing committee-membors.; .
16. :• Other. massages uthorzi .
and Graz. one courier who was frecieently mentienediwisa.aert4Mggglaipp.L
17 Still anothur:Messageaontained thoiaevs. of the . arresti.Or.a certain Pe*
ber of Stapo emplcyeesof thu Acne ' Graz, whiCh the latter natied, as a .-
fantasy. • .
D. Generalities-.- .
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.18. The .entire collection,ef intercepts was rathor'voluminous and finally'
constituted a Large book. Many names were mentioned.
19-..1.SubjeatIdoeenottrpmember mere detail's about, these inierceptai-
erea,ccvered_watabtincluded in Iiebrkroise XVII ald XVIII, him profes-
sional territory,. But as he foresaw thopoSsibility:of many of theselagen
IneVing,aorth int-his.:.terxitorravthe warprecepodedulicappointed,a..apal.1
employee., to collate :them.-ard VTaluate ...them:forToesible psp.-
were:destroyed before-ipaving Vienna. -

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