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Detailed Interrogation Report of Johann SANITT,FH, Gestapo,Vienna,Sootion 1V2.
Appendix E. The Funkspiel d Fata Morganan (French Agents). .
1. In the evening of April 4, 1945, Subject received from the luftgaulvommando
XVII a parachute and a bundle, dropped the same afternoon on the territory .
of the village of Neusiedl, in tho neighborhood of the Nousiodlersee. The
contents of the package were immediately examined and the following objects
were founds a: A.rmilitary letter (Feldpostbriof) from a girl addressed to
', Josef SASSW. Feldpostnummor • n b. Some erotic pictures, signed'
BREZINA. -21though Subject thought it very unlikely that agents would leave
their n visiting cards t in parachute bundles, he still ordered his employees
to send a circular wire to all Dienstellen, whetner they knew of two, men of
these namos.
2. Dm hours afterwards, the Aussendienststelle 'Wiener Neustadt announced
that a certain Josef SASSO from rinzenderf, Ereis Wiener Neustadt had been
arrested and condemned to a term in prison for participation in a communist
youth mavement in 1940. After his imprisonment, SASSO had been inducted in
the German Army, assigned to a disciplinary aorrpany, sent to North Africa,
where he had, deserted and run over to the
3. Subject immediately proceeded to Anzondorf in company of two of his best
men, Anton BROM and Hans POTINGER. The actually found &WO in his perentls
home. During the 'inevitable-fight- SASSO shot FOMIMER through the heart,
but was arrested after a rather eventful chase. On SASW A s indications,
subject proceeded the same day to the home of the carpenter BRUM:in the
Rotzergasse, Vienna XVII, where he arrested SASSO l s teasamate Karl mumph...
4. The following picture could bo assembled from the joint declarations
of the arrested agents: Both had deserted in the area of Monte Cassino and
mere transported to a pow canp in the neighborhood of the Suez Canal. There
a fellow-prisoner named JustusGUTTEBILIk, a veteran of the Foreign legion,'
had recruited them for the Freribll --Ielligence Service.
5. Tae two men were transported to Algiers, where they more to receive their
. agent-instruction: !,st was trained as a ?VT oparator, wnile BREaNA recetied:-
some snperficial . int ence training. BREZINA mostly was instructed in the
recognition f German airplanes, as the tam's mission was the reporting of
airplane ?reduction in the 1iiener Neustadt area. Jump-training was held on
an airfield in the' neighborhood of sagiers. It .consisted of jumping from, a
mock-up, from a high platform and two jumps frem an airplane flying at 500m.
Cipher training was given by the bode-instructor. The cipher was a double • .
transposition. The signalplanwas similar to the British and American one(a1-.
ready well-known to the Funkueberwachungabteilung der MI). It:con.
sisted of three call-signs, which could be used either horizontally, vortical.;
ly or diagonally, an QRX, a pre-arranged OBI and a special signml.
for frequency-change.
6. The code-instruntor transported them to TUnis,whenne they flew to BaO4
with a half, in Naples. As the weather conditions ware rather unfavorable,
thrhadje wait until the next moon-period. They were finallrdropPed from
a 1W'rplane4 ,piloted by a I. :dish pilotp.stationed in :Brindisi. (20 march'
1944). Their WT set (apparently a British Mark VII); was dropped in the •
.NeissiedlerseeandaubjeCt t s searches were not successful], in finding it.. .
7A The agents bad beenimtruated, that in case they lust their I.C/1.4tet,
they were to write twO ., POW-cards to thelaselVOS-atfn,iiitorvilleftWa,or-::.
three weeks. The text.used)oY.sAss0, on SubjeCtISAna,tigetionvien-as:folieMaf:
"Marie ;atOpmen, friand,:,was . unfortinately , draMfiedelUring*beat4d ge in the
NensiedIereeeq..- i;t4t46::name ,.timni.the4fritnintthe MeseagethOipa'aUpPOSO
ti:0)ea verYgood .:friend of:SAESO l s', interned him thetha:Was:abein“e'be:
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