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Detailed interrogation of Johann SANITEER, Gestapo, Vienna, Section Tv2,
APPENDIX F. Funkspiel "'Morse" (With British .ilgonts).
1. Subject was Wormed in the late summer cf 1944 by the Landwacht of Weitz
that they had arrested an ihgliah captain npossession of papers, dasignat.
ing him as Cranford MAC. Ho had admitted being a British ;VT agent. His,
destroyed set was actually found somewhere in the neighborhood of his dropping
point,
2. Subject ilm.ladiately scat his only Ea6lish-spoaki nd employee to the
Stara Stello Gran, where Cranford nas hold. his irtaation was tc induce
LIC to begin a funkspiel, under tha supervision of the Graz Funkimberwachungs
kompanle, and then to ace whether it would be interesting enough to trans-
port the splays to Viennu j liter. The opployee, ln his retuin to Vienna ad-
vised Subject to transport MAC to Vienna, not becauss V.'.enna offered more
chances of success for the funkspiel, but because the Was pimple were
not capable enough to execute it satisfactorily.
3. Subject then teletyped a demand t) the FOIL to all.ow him to begin a
Funkspie with MAC, which was immediately granted, an! the order was given
to Graz, Unfortunately Graz replied that 1144 had committed suicide the
same morning, and had swallowed smne cyanide hidden in a button of his
uniform. His clothes were searched, after his death, and the following
objects mare Aland: two steel-saws, 3 or 4 full-size =passes, several
compaeses camouflaged in buttons, three gold coins mai a staff-map of Styria.
No motive could be ftund for the suicide. The British Officer was to be
given mme neutral clothes that same morning and it was supposed that he had
profited from the lastoccasion to escape from a certain destiny. MAC had
only been interrogated hastily and no interrogation report had been made
available. The only thing waichwas known was that the cipher system was
a double transposition, the basis of which was awell-known English school-
song. But the method of building the recodnition-groups and their place
in the enciphered message was unknown.
4. TOO Funkueberwachungs,Jateilimj der OKWpossasSed some excellent cipher-
experts, who had spscialised in Fngl i sh double-transpositions. Subject then
decided to begin a FUnkspibsitJa the aid of those exports after having re-
ceived the approval of the commanding officer of theFunktieberwachungsabtoil-
ung. The aim of this Funkspiel was to be.purelypreventiv•et subject' wanted
to move the play Itor on to Vienna in order to avoid the further dropping
of British agents in his awn area.
5. There were a few difficulties to this project: first, subject know noth-
ing about IL:C i s mission; secondly it wasnot known whether HAG had had a
teammate. During thaireceding weeks a certain number of personnel and Cargo:.
parachutes hat been found in the neighborhood of Hartberg. The a: ntents of..
the dropped bundles.indioated that they were destined to British agents,
who: subject supposed, were the installation personnel of team.
6. In order to viSualice what the British Intelligence service required,
Subject began digging in the material given to hiallay the intercepts of the
• "51" and the 115811-lines, (See kapendix D). He arrived at the conclusion
• that what was demandei xincipally was information of political .nature, •
esplcially liaison itta resistanco . groups. He thus began transmitting
tical intelligence. This was oaiii:e easy for Subject as ho practioelly.':
rczeved no Military information from the Wehrmacht.
7: he first message containw'. praa 44oally no infermation. Subjeg
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