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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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which monitored and Op-ed allradio-traffic inside the Reich % (see.
Appendix D.). . . •
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Later, overytime subject arrested an id,lied radio-agent he would infoin . the
leaders of the two units, She would assist him in the technical interregatOn
and would make their own .inspection Of the sets, the codObooks and ttAi Pignal
plane. (see Appendiac s). •
• 1'1 -1... G.. Funkspiel IIERuNFA (Cover Name) •
28. Soon ROAM, on Subject's instigation began asking for help,- as he had
allegedly lost contact with PANNDURF. .bout' 'the -end of October 1942, the
Russians in.formed BuERN4t that they would send a man, called Emil KAL,L33,_
This EA/GILERhad been a professor at the Leningrad Higher Institute of
1. Fhy'sical- Culture. He was recruited by the MVO, together with his mistress
.___ Viola 'S4NDRuUS, a Finnish girl who had returned to her in aye Latvia from the.
•USA, in company of her father. The couple had alreackf anCoMplished an -intel-
- ligence mission for the NECVD, before the German agres#14„ in Latviq,',.aheiii
they poled as language t,erhers. A few.months before the'•war the Cotqile. had
• • settled in Reichenberg on another intolligence mission. Cont‘t was to. e .
held with an official of the Russian Embassy in Berlin, ;l it .the.outbre*of
the war, KAildelat, a German citizen was forced to -join the German ArMyi, while
'his "wife" stayed on in Reichenberg. As soon as he 'goad' the mad deserted -
and reported to the HUD in Moscow.. P. •
ICAtaldlER Was dropped in Eastern Prussia and joined his !Wife $0a Reicheztberg. .
, Be left his WT set to her and proceeded to his rendei-i449:4 Vienna with
BOERNER..
(A comical note: :21 -11HDERNER" had arranged with the Ruesians was.a rendez-
vous-somewhere in Vienna, at a certain date and hour. (1700). ThaltukrIMPO
hadtmderstood 0700. This caused Subject's employees to miss IL,}ilLitlt-the' ..•
first timu, but they arrested him the next day at 0100.). •
• Later on, Viola SANDROOS was enticed to come to Viezma and.was arrastegi'. dis
Subject thought that two "plays" wore enough' in Vienna, the &MU* woman *sl
0.9nt.to- Prague, whore she was Ilpersuaded u to begin &.„ iliilayv of her ow3W"
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• In December 1942, FUERNER, who ep to now, had:been 'given m.mellibert4r,:Was
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incarcerated in tee House Prison on the 5th :fioor of theGeitapo-bnilding.
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, la Hamburg stelle had also given cr me • liberty to a double -agent- mid the.
latter had eseled. - Consequently, all Stollen had been . qdkred to dcpslicre
\r- . the double agents of their 'liberty. " . , . •
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H. Funkwiel 111,,..;..m.cl! ltover 'Name?.
29... In -February 19&3, '.now group of. REVD. . agents was an
4is ies . It acin-
ted: of • • as KONRA wD .and a e Eman ile • Sae tO:' - .
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operatethe. W T . sat. • ;KOEHLai had been chief organizVr: of the Communiat•Ferty
of Anstrid •between'1938 and . 1938, He .101't for Prance kctek- the aPtch140. .-..• :
and from 'there finally emigrated to Russia. ' • • ,'" f'• '. • -' • . -
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The ...two agents of thielirouP had Jeff Russia evert:A*4u* fdr htgbiad and
kktd,bugn,Aater, dropped from gagxqhd bx,a RAF-Plim4k.'ASubjent explains that
*ere Were two such 'easea during 4l his activities AI* aUssian ageinfP.W. .
, -OEHLER was 'caught ft at. Halad•stoxed intierie,tp jtsitat of his j#003:sithes - -•
a bottle of -. cai ipaaO.-_ •, The .;cognac had SPilled,•dUring'-thes'drop and soma t4teedr .
654nda.usedlry'jeWe40,0 ,149ked- V% the trai1.-- Let* the Pa.raidautelitra . '
eeeP0.- 4004 . Ot4a14144he:A*0-was caught because af.naPartMehOroibIco.
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