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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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42. CO N L T 0 E T thi s kind of current, it became relatively easy to supervise these1 • (See 4ppendix B, para I). The Russians needed alternative curient to ' operate ththeir sots and, as there wore very few quarters in Vienna provided with • quarters and arrest .riy suspiddus person. The team alio was- "persuaded" to exoperate with the Gestapo, The project bore the name, of "Burgenland". ..1 .,• • . . I.-FUnkspiel Alpahrope,: (Cover Name) 30. In4Pril 1943 the first uSchutzbund childrent, were caught... ..ifte' r the Republican Schutabund insurrection (12 Fahruaty 1934) a certain number . -of childrarof arrested schutzbaed-members were adopted by the Russian Government and transported to Russia. A part-orthose children were trained as agents by the REVD. ...,) The first man was Ernst DOMEGGAC 8 KERNMEYER. one of the numerous check- ups done by all police organisations for Subject was that allperame who • olaided4o be deserters who claimed to have escaped from Russian prison:were autbditically checked by Subject. DZIRFEGGER, although 21 years ó1d had iteip at the Vienna railway station membership card. of the HitlarJugend, • AP he *Reared much older than 17 years, he was referred V3 Subjent, !ito.a,00.■ . Ognized a Russian agent and d easilpsersuadede (sic) hid to be a AnksPd.4.1:_. 47...nijak_which Subject called napenroseu . . . . - Vartieriseister Bins" was then transferred to Munic16 Subject thought that AP' there were already iDO many plays in Vienna. . , . -__ KBOERNER" aal .nBuREITKYu began t have some contacts together in order, to let . ---1,4F the HZENTRUH" of the REVD hear abt.ut it. .-?. ., ..t....... - . ...... , . el 31. lmodiately afterwards ucluartiermacher Elna n , nquirtiermadfter Zwei n. L npurget.ndu and vKronen were broken. This is.how it happened ... .. *man ent CI,P".'"L'.1 of the NKVD had. been•arreatedin . Frankfurt. In order to per - . . :-... • (cooperate with he Gestapo, she was informal of the plays' Subject phi Oh. She agreed 4.0 play and was given a policeman to make and'semdsheriaesseges. Ale easily ! seduced the can and ho slipped in a message to the WV% tell*P• 'the real situation. Frt.= this moment(June 1943) 01.42ays wore stopped, eicept nAlpenroien . • 3Z. flapenroseu went very well (until thevery end). ..Itwas 34 buchesat01 that it allowed Subject to discover a Russian agent in 0BARREBTERHN0SR,It.41 .././mel MOUTON, who was on the staff of REIGHSWTH4LTER ofToisen(.uguat'1944. Another rather important agent under the name of naaeWarcaUght *cut*. Alpentese. subject dDes not remanber too much abcUt .him.`--L7 -41 (7i 4 . J., KominternFunkspiel LindwurFi. ; (Corer Name) ... • 33, The..2nd of January 1944 three agents who were sent directly by . the AtT'operators Loilise,SOBCEK and Hildegard NRAZ. ,--; KoOntern were arrested. The chief was a .certain Gregor SC and women. . :..„ ..1 . KERBCHE' wasiteOpUOWLandwirtschafts Referent of the KPOe, who Went, to Russia in the 3.04Airas thcn employed by the Trcfintern4, Skia *WO. .•.,_•' eag1Oyee cr•Radioliodadw, Subject does not remember what 8oucpcis backgt6ap4 was* • • They were badly equipped,hadno para-clothes,•and had toAupp'withent . . - evious pa-trainiug They Per's not armed, nor hal they' the abwidazit equ.iPmenti whiqh:all. rt44.. NicvD .carried*P. 'th'SI4Se.e. apOeh4•14 04'; itibr : :: • , . : .,c:,o...11-,Tx01, - • . ' • -. . . I!. o I.: 2) R.E T-
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