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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.
CONTE-J.' RuteOP -64) permanent chief of the steno. The activities of this AUST were Mainly concerned with anti-communist work. 6 Service with the Vienna Gestapo,. ReferteIIg apd . 1v42. 194 In February 19142, the hg referat in Vienna lost its chief and subject applied for and received the appointment. Activities of this ref erat includ- ed: sabotage, Schutzdienst (protection of high officials during their travels), false police offici als, weapons and ammunitions, false papers and attempte on the lives of officials (Attentate). The entire Staff comprised ten men. Subject's assistant Kriminal Kormilipsar 4RL3I, was in charge of the Schutidienst and a certain Anton BROZLID "did tiabtage inquests. ma the rest of the activities were direcy sub- ject himself. 20, In.MaT 19142, the entire Leitstelle was rearranged and new numbers were given to the different Referate. subject's Referat was Oxen the designation IVa2: ISORVATTZ and his Schutzdienst became a separate Referat, numbered Iva. ;Subject retained his former activities, but two new ones were than added: 1 .Abirehrbeauftragte (industrial CI s,svice) and H/T agents. There wati .really not too much to do in thebeginning. There were no. real. sabotage cases. BRuEDL still had a lot . of work,. since all fires had to bo investigated for -a-possible sabotage cause. As for weapons and ammunitions the only cases investigated where those . brought to his attention by. denunciations, • • • As far as false political documents were. concerned, subject 'esaphasizos..that this wasgenerally linked with intelligence activities, in whiCh Case RefOrat IWO wiuld take over. The only case subject remembers is that of thas/l,egiwl 4 , r, -British agent liESSNER_, the general Manager of the Semperit Rubber Colipany- who later was. Afterwards, when the Gestapo building was, partly destri*■• l ed by MA -bomhs subject requisitioned IESSNER I s villa in the Hasenauers.trasss, 61, Vienna , and used 'it to hduse hisVI/T station and his ubottOr Agentin . . Oxiagaza F. First " Funkspiel with the Russians: Nuartiermacher iine ll (Coser . Namier- Clan . . . 21. Around May or Juno 19142, information was circulated to the. 4ffest that' -..[Idlt,1!&...RalA., Russian agents had boon dropped in Eastern grussia. One of them, the fernier' wzNy Communist Reichtag representative, GENNENc-oWas arrested. •, KUEtafgestas. -panisd by a W/T-operator, who was shot ur the arreat. A comple-- Sig:* plan and a W/T set were found on the agents. • After his arrest, 1COE1NE21.,..,:'1 described ct-a certain number of agents, whn were dropped or were A .dropied I later on; -amongst thee: he named a certain l'ANNDORF and a Jo5ef.,.B0Mk_iltiO.- latter was found and arrested in .Vidnna by Sutijeet:c,-.1, . • • iMit','WA 22BGERNfit waelkounci.4ossession of a" signal plan, but said thathe j• ) hidden his set somewhere in Eastern- Prussia subject itcoMpanied..tii-nfligra and succeeded in.recomering the set.. He relicr ted his find.to was ordered to report with his priscimir to "Berlin. - •;! (qua stionad on the reason why he accompenied BD EBNER himmelf to Easter‘. Prussias Subject declared that first there were very few people in hist:rafera etitP4t2.'3,-" that he wanted to make the mostimportant arrests, himself, 'and, lastly ;Wet •he did riot want to give the impression' to his .subordinates of sitting. be.hind his ,desk and sending. them out on dangerous missions). • • It appeared that. '1244121Natca mission was to eesure military and volid!•ica.1A.123tel- '- ligence and to Z'Aii'weat,her . r6port,s,. according to a previously arranged emits= -P ‘ 1`..OP OuRsT
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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.