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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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CONTIOL S,rECRET "7 (5). code,- 23, Subject and his prisoner reper ted to Kriminal DirCktor Horst KOPKOW • head of the 1112b section of the RS& (sec. iopendix 4), then looated -a-J.he • • Prins ..lbertstrasse, Berlin. For both KOPKOW and 'Subject, the arrest of an enemy W/T agent was a new occurrence and they tried to make use of the man for some sort of a counter-intelligence work. They finally decided -to per.■ suede the agent to begin a series of false radio-messages with his Russian. chiefs. .BOERNF4 agreed and SaITZER was ordered back to Vienna and .told Ito begin a LwFunkspiel w , to which the code-name Nuartiermacher Rine 'Was .. . • given. BURNER, having explained the signal plan which was found on MENNEN, EQPKOW decided to begin a similar wplayw with the KOENNEN circuit and call it wcpartiermacher Zweig!, .. 24. The aids of the two officials in beginning 4F,u. nkspiele w wares 1. to • . prevent the dropping of new agents in an area, *hero the Russians thought that the previous agents were safe, 2. to attract- the cfroPping of new Russian - agents, whemorer the Gestapo .wanted it. 3. to be. fully informed of all: .. -.. intelligence reqUirements of the NM,. lo. to be informed of the troop.: • invcaents. and the locations of Russian radio-stations. ..(Subject. explain? that near the and of the war, hp know exactly 3r.hidh route the Rtasalani. were taking, as they freely gave their iodations to their. I:agog:219.- 25, . Subject, after his return to Vienha with BOERNER, did'not want to be- . .' gin hifi wpleyw before he had apprehended PaN)DORF,. :-as he feared that the • i latter might be informed somehow of the wplayw and waulid/hIp:Ofirlhe Russians,- through hi. s own channels of communication. :Berlim, on Vitt other had, began its "play" 'immediately. (July 1942). • ' • L . . . . - . .. . •. . - . _ 'BOERNER had confessed that he had been ire trwated - by the NKV.11 ,-cuntact: he 5th, 15th find 25 of the month a cut-out in thnwoodb near Ifeerane, near Checniti. This cutout, a woman ..was arrested by sUbjectamithree pOP/101 - 1 1y .prepared postal cards irUfb-fatthd on her. The - Berlin AO:timed' on the postal cards were checked, the houses,s6*dualand PAMIUR; was arrested in one of them. • -.. 26. subject began his radio-play with BOERNKR.anihia sot 'o August- x#t, a$12,;] A room on thefifth'floor of the Gestapo...WI:Meg wps used as talipaktentor.:'' This was the-first time, that the Leitstelle Over Userradio aS'amellan ot comaunicati on. Up to this date onlY . the t4epone was used and-it ewer th6. necessity arose to use -sale conunicabion, the radio-netof .1tbe.lricen4 Police, had to be used. • • BOERNat during his transmissions was watched by a man from . the:POliSeki • Funlaaesstelle Wien, a regular police man personally known1.c.) gab4eqt; 7474 of : the Ast Vienna provided Subject With the necessary Military infefaaltions. te,St1y. - 1cold" information of troop mövementa. The .15olitialii- intelligence, - ' • 1 was drawn ..up by Subject himself after tiering been .submittiid. fer'OPprevalr. 40, pi2b.,.. Berlin. .;.n the begpanig,.. Subjdat aled sent scaleWeather' roportei p WO was sev.vely !.repricandoi .-4or. ,thisiiis . this -constituted -a.. cane or .high' *ea**. - Contacts wore made-t4ce:add Wice a week, at . nightis .136446e or at*Spherics, the.:transmissions'Awere ratbdr k ngthY., sowietidee,t our or'f.i,y4: . hours for a few hundred .groups. .. . . .. . .. ••• -• •. . . .. 27.......$0jeist was told to 'report his radio4raffid . to the Vienna. rir40it% . 46 . informeik:•thsi 'tali :FunineberwachUngeatelle, Vienna, 'C.o. C4pt4krisiltiatila*:. situated in.4 Villa at laseagstfabse in .-Hitiing atl . wixti*.y. .;cliOrge.7 .' ith. ,themonftering and 'Dy-ing , of i.4.-0arb:C...outside the '0•04h;;•'' 46 • - - also notified the.FnIanesatellolle dh'' : ',4Yienne.0.• HaaPtmaan GROTTE1' ' at . the. SteinbansiiiasailWidirokenerganse Vienna' ..-.) • '''' CONTROL . T. ,0 T.......„.S...r.C.:.R Ei..t.' C:ZO Cam, ILA4 irmirsa . ag wry' ,a2,4.2sru=v4A 1123Migl • aragg:10 LAU -OD
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