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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 T its,U L R (39) S i the Yugo-slay count URSIGI-SLAVETISCH who had been amprisonod for high treason(he had had scae connections with a logistimistic organisation)• "Pilot" had ,,resented himself to ORSICH as an ,alied .t/T agent. WSILH therotwn informed " pilot" that ho was a member of an "ustrian Resistance Government which sought recognition from the Britidh, and risked "pilot" whether he could eatablish the heceasary contact with the British. "Pilot" answered affirmatively. subject was contacted and decided to include this in his FUnkspiel. Shore was one difficulty in that 0PSICH dermndedthat "Pilot" include in lila message to the British a spccialphrase, namely "The Rose will bloom again", which was to be tr.nsait t ed through the Austrian transmission of the BBC. 14. Subject hesitated to transmit the ORSICR message ashianew Punkspiel was too young yot and tried to find some other circuit which would transmit the "pilot" message. Re was informed of a Funkspi...1 in Verona, but this Stolle refused for 80mo:reason. Subject was thus forced fo inZerm Bari of the . facts about (RSICH and asked for the re,..trensaissien of the BBC-phrase,- which was granted. Bari emphaslied that subjoct would not contact too many civilian circles but to try to meet aomo socialists. "Pilot" had also con- tacted some cocmunist group through the indications of °MICH. This group was headed by a cobbler named ent_LaTAND.LJThere were apparently some frictions between the =ICH group and the STROHICERST,..ND group. The latter called the former L a wnite-oollar government" and wanted to have "Pilot" ask British recognition for themselves. only for this they asked "Pilot" to have Bari demand the Austrian transmitien of the phrase "Bombs fall from • the sky", if recognities WA granted. Subject informed Bari of the new developments and Bari actually had the sentence "Bombs, etc." transmitted over the aBC. • 15. The consequences of the transmission of th2 "Bonbs, etc." phrase were that "Pilot" became '.be czoiter of a group of persons or smallrosistance movements, amongst than a &gyp which operated rn illegalprinter t s Slop. . Even the Swedish consul, who anparently had tried to contact a Russian11/T agent in couninication with Moscow, suddeely• discovered that he really was anglo-phile and tried to contact "Pilot".,.. 10, The competency vf this work was not Subject's but belonged to the R. ferat :Vie. This Raferat thought that it was time to intervene against the: two group' an the =bets cf the ORSICW;group wore knomai)to intend shooting. the Commander of the Sipo-S.D., SS Brigadefuohror EU54gliiihile another member- of the erne group, Oberstleutpant DR,LON, co amender of the Security forees of Vienna-Semmering, was suspected of wanting to shoot eleven of his officers in case of a'British altlanding in order to join his troops with tho Subject stated that ho was violently opposed aainst aay ceasures ag&nat - the resistance 'groups, as it wculd'have endangered his Funkspiel. . . 17. lathe meantime Sari had orderod its "agent"to transfer his . activities from Styria t Vienna, and informed its "agent" , that it wanted this transfer becaUse the "Vienna grout)" did not exist anpore, but:that:'. certain connections still exUsted, which could be ut.lised by the "egint"-:--:- 18. Subject's Funkspieleplanr had been thwarted through.the:. activities .t theReferat tos'raiseecile after ,naving move“O,Vienne',hopineto. get quickera. touch with the.-Vienna cennections.: , SubjectAnmediatelY rerr.Cilteill7tbforMation that.thi8::.ecOpp. wns•situated in glelprio4, the:petenaceunt rY Lathe neighborhood of ,V3enra. , The seat•ch:Tor.thiagrenp :mild -unfortunately not be • made:aa the Rysafansware.'aireadibefereTtenna.' S. • d'ONTPO'L •• T 0 P ''ved T C=1 Cm, Lliell anszEggi
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 47 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.