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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.

  • p. 3 …SCHUB41, thd then Police President, he was promised a commission, but it never . Materialized. In 1930he…
  • p. 8 …then occupied by Polish guerrillas it was never recuperated, and Subject "persuaded,' thei to begin a…
  • p. 9 …But that never wttkect out well.- Then Subject ' • began with HOTIARY. ant'll. his written , signal…
  • p. 10 …agents had a signal plan, but they never had to repeat theirnossages and ! . nessages of over…
  • p. 11 …Subject's Pah naiY have drunk tOomuphand missed Mn.- He never tained up again. SubjeCt-AVtlais…
  • p. 24 …was now convinced that the woman had never received any money from the Swiss man, n…
  • p. 30 …when a safe address was given, subject never gave the address of • V.Leute, but had…
  • p. 31 …has never been completed and was destroyed by Subject beforehis 141,i0tt.-. 3. a: radio log…
  • p. 33 …Later intercepts showed that these headquarters mere never able to keep their promise. 12. In another…
  • p. 35 …GUTTAiMANN would never have given himsalf :up had_hemot suffered his soriors logwohnd. .. He was sufficiently…
  • p. 36 …A courier who was Sent there to getthe.; signal.plan never reachod Subject.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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