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did rut possess an abundance of documents, Like the MVO agents, 'but were in
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posseesion of large amotults of U.S. &liars, like all Russian agents. They
did not have any safe addresses; as the women had quite a number of relatives •
in the Vienna area.
They were dropped in imguSt 1941 in Poland. The women buried their sets and
all three travelled to Vienna. .;13 soon as they arrived in Vienna the women
began assembling a net, the spare parts of which they obtained VI/sough frionds.
They soon began sending and transmitting the Russian recognition signals.
This interforred with Subject's plays and he notified the. manit..ring stations.
f(The women sent on the same wavelength as Subject o s double .agents).
34. In the meantime Subject had begun to assemble a fib o on all the agents
who might possibly be dropped in the Reich. • .11 captured. agents ivero, theroxigh-
ly questioned on • evorycne they had soon in the training areas of the RKVI), .
etc. As quite -a number of than were former Garman or ..ustrian comnuniste
Subject had oven their photographs and it rsona.1 descriptions,. from previous
'police files. He kept it up to date by adding the names aed descriptions
ether sections received and by destroying those of agents arrested or killed.
Subject chocked ta s files and thought that the interference in Vienna must
•come from Nita. • He had the family of the won= chocked and asked the Ceilp
sorship people to give him all censorship extracts of their correspondence...
Zip caused NR.,,Z to move from One apartment to the other; it-made her '. .
sufficiently suspicious to be arrested January 19/44. The others were soon
arrested too. .• ••
AIS the set was buried in in area then occupied by Polish guerrillas it was
never recuperated, and Subject "persuaded,' thei to begin a play on a "Jack,'
'set ho had in reserve. •
This play was really a feather in the cap of . Subject. t the time,. it ITN;
generally supposed that the KulaNT'ffiN had been dissolved: Ttakt tr4s prered
. to be untrue, was shown by the traffic subject obtained' sith• Q;(1)41
self and with KUPIEITIG, the leader of the „mstrian section of. the
10. their signed messages they gave direct instructions to KPRSSER'about hits'
' missions, etc.
4pparently KERSCHE I s mission was *to observe the politieal fluctitations and
• to profit in them by building up some kind of a resistance movement Consist-
ing of local ,,uetrian workers, and not of foreign Ix rkers. H was suppeeed•
to do teis through a few selected catt-outs.: Those nut-mita . mnichlne. hat,:
managed to assemble were, I g or course,' (sic) arrested with-bin.. ....•
One of the women began a play in Viermn. labor Subject's . superrisien. .Mca■
COW told the Other woman to pre coed to .0Lz and investigate the poisibilities
Of an underground movement there. Subject began feeding the KOILINTAN some
political information and also some specific political natarial fran•nraa .
as if it came from the Gras woman. He also gave them sane military infaira
In order to obtain some real ktmauriist information, Subject - had to obtain
it. from the "Communists Referati of the Leitate13.e.. • • .
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During all previcus plays the NM had pimply acknowledged the messagekand
relayed some intelligence requ.iremente:.:- But the .KOHINTLRN went further' and •
provided Subject with ama interesting politieal . tidbits to be -usedlay...:
KERSCHS. They told KFRSCHE of the ounatitutien Of the 440.'biaa4.1.90-9.n.74..th
TITO'S .x4, something which was not generally.' known,. -anywenr not . by Subjaitg.
Subject one day infcrrned the KOM11TERN that ha had contacted a:"cloramunistiCalt:
1,y-inclined group of Wehrmacht offiners and What . wonli:thily- like bin to
The KOVINTERN must have been auspicious because they radioed back
me the nene of the grandfather of your wife", KSRSOHE, of course
was able •th answer this questibn. The "A9SCrimmi iitrReferatu was promising.
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