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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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.. . ..-• . C 0 0 L C it E T (35) inducted into the German Army and asked him to write to a certain address, until the fifriondfl would be able to give him his APO-number. It had ben provieusly arranged that tho French chiefs wore to inform this 8aderessfl how they were gr .ing.te drop a now set or when a out-out was to bring a maw set to the address mentioned, -.4 8. 4,13 SASSO had killed an agent during his arrest:, the Roichsfuehror SS had ordered Subject to execute both agents and their foralios Subject wanted to impress interrogator with his feel i ngs of sympathy for BREZIN2. and his family and rektes that BRUIN.: made such a good impression mi him that he dcsidod to *are him., Instead of accoMplishing the execution,Subject in- formed the MBA that he was about to begin a funkepiel undLT the cover name u Tunis c . The RSHA did not insist on the exacted-on as in the meantime news had arrived of the arrest of the Uffz. „Justts GUTZDi%Jai, who had re- cruited SASSO and BREZINA. 9. On Jnne 1, 191111, the Frontier post eZ Bruck a.d.Horthe delivered a . German noncommissioned offioor, suffurnig from a severe legwound at the office' of Subject. This prisonor had given himself up to the Gontormerie in Frauenkirchen, explaining that he had boon dropped during the preceding . night from a RAF-plane in the neighborhood of Frauenkirchen Thu following objects were. f..und on his p,xson: an authentic and only partly falsified Soldbuoh in his real name, about Rink 60.000, a 11/T sot (of the typo aPolunaisou , invented by a Polish engineer) and a number of miscellaneous things: coffee, tea, silk stockings, etc. 10. lhen GUTTERUANN was confronted with SASSO and BRAMIN., by one of "Subject's' employees, he was immediately recogbizod by than as their recruiter. But, as no previous interrogation was taken from GUTTzlilL.NN, tho latti.n. was on nia.guerd when he saw the two others arrested and tried to tell his story accordingly. In general, his story corresponded with the ones told by his comrades, Subject was rather surprised when GUTTIOUIN related his misaieni. I apparentiy there extsted an extensive intelligence net throughout South-, Eastern Germany,..„me.nly directed against the British, aerieens and NitSsienei. which was.only.to •bo activated after the and of the hostilities. Until then he was to send-,from tine to time some report on his activities and only Send actual reports, when they concerned objects of tho highest importance, for instance, now weapons,. etc. Subject thinks 'that the entire story given to • bin by GUTTBDION, which could not be proved might ha y boon a fake.and that.. his only real mismion was to contact SZSSO and BREZINA. GUTTAiMANN would never have given himsalf :up had_hemot suffered his soriors logwohnd. .. He was sufficiently intelligent to try to tell m . story which meld not be broken by anyone, Only one fact spoko in GHTPLIHANN's favor: while he was in • the'PCJ-cemp at thl Suez-canal, he had oLmfidod to a Gorman beiaal'officerA that he was gong• to mlunteer fur the French Intelligence Service so that ... .'.iA he. might go back to Germany. This medical doctor had later been exchanged. and evoifl:med OUTTIBUL.Ms story when he was interrogated by Subject. • , 11. As the inz-Jrrogations of ail three old not allow Subject to hive.A.co: , pleto .piotuLm cf.the French intelligence requirements, he deoided.tu Start H. a FunIcapf.ol d to &htoh the eivername ""Fats Morganaft was ff.ixen. -. . ' ••• ...y..' ' • • .',.. :, . . 124 ' 3.atjectb.Teri t'uat-the French-would in3 .txuct CUT L.}2 to contact.:§ABSO'-• and FtErNA and ihno eon':ina Subject's pitpicions about GUTTEIP.A144 1,s . realk. '. uiesion. Ultject's expectations were not realised .11;0 F4DX§Tiul'beN04. qui.:,enormany, bet_the. .77ench made no mention .of the SASSO!-PREZMArtaam.:. They were vory. intei:..cattd in thenews of a pcssible new intelligencenet..• the beLinning 1945, they changed their provious,attf.tede of,lretdeence;and riedenly erdered . WTTribia.to transmit .urgantiY all . informatioa.abent46 . .C iO'N . T'-p L . . . . . TOP .S t...1t:F T• • .
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