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to provide Subject-with a man, who would pose as such a contact, but stmehow
the scheme never antadalised. .
Subject began. losing interest in the play, frrst because he says that he was
only interested in military intelligence, secondly because ho had to check.
with and rely upen the Klmmunists Raferat for al his material and they
were not too eager to heap. . -
Notwithstanding this the • inth/um:III play went on until tho vary end of •
hostilities (April 5, 1945) and tiKASOHE ani the two women were liberated
by subject two days before the Russians entered Vienna.
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K. Funkspial Rote MADER, .(Cover Name)._......._...
3$. This sateerned another NKVA) group, transported over 1114103NSK to England
and .finally dropped by a &IF-plane, arount February 1944. It consisted„pf a
former Viennese communist called .HII/Tni his WT•operater, '• "Teem
Bavaria.. was a soldier in the German ..rmy who had deso and was
recrui4d. by the NKVD. 2.ES2LER had fcught in the Spanish Civil War and had
, left for Russia afterwards...
They had been partially equipped in England Where they had to .wait nine •
. months before being dropped. Their sets were Russian. They had received
previAualy some jump-training (twc or three jumps). Curio:m.01y enough HU'rfARIC
, had, as usual with these agents, a complete set of papurs, but instead of
lusing a false name, these were Made out in his cam real mane. . • _
. . - . While they waited
• for their drop in England, HDTT.:Fa had lears2ed how to send and had bcaa equipped
with a signal plan. . . - .
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Their drop wag rather unfortunate as they landed about 200a way from a
German airfield in Greater Vienna. They got away and managed to hide in-town.
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..., HHITARY was already in Subject's files, Which contained at this time several.
. k hundred names and descriptions. They were arrested IN.:cause of n apartment• • . •
•-••" trouble" (having to look for an apartment that was sufficitatlYligh up tir
ienable .them to send and that alsc . had 4 . 0, of which there was very little in
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Jenne). .
They ware arrested. and were nwillinga t• begin a play 'for Subject. •• First;
Subject tried with . ZETMER, who apparently had 1.c . st his signal plan and said
that he had memorized-it. But that never wttkect out well.- Then Subject ' •
began with HOTIARY. ant'll. his written , signal plan and that- went ill right. The •
•usual military and political information was fed to the NM; ' Subject rer • ,
eeived it through the same channels. Weather reports at that time were not
• 'demanded anymore.. . • . . 0 •. • .
36, ay. this time Subjectbegap..haying difficulties in obtaining all the . .
inferaa tionhe needed to feed the Russians. . - There-was- no Alit . anymore . tO.giVa.-..
• him sate (middle of.l9hh) and only IC of the Wehrkreis xvII. gave'llim acimai'
With reluctance. . 4V:times they refusedto give him any at all, wing 1,c) !lime': •
news black.outs, 'Then they told him to go ont. and get it .hinself. • 'Subject ,...:•.:.
en fitted one artia. own men out in an Oberfeldwber imiftrm ancl'aent him : ..
out•exaetly as any' Russian agent. *mid hire 'done ., :and ordered hip to -leek fat
the infOrmation-whicth the Russians' were donandinga and which the .gi-retAtted.
Ito give hid. In thia manner,Subtject . obtained . a it of informatton and co uld •
see. for himself -hew much;an aglint•could pielaop. • He then aubmitted Ino,42474,
formation to IC,' who 'would transmit it to Berlin-. L. T . .agtticeetrit;- MS :cianeed•
an enormous . delatlisometimes a weak): and the information was than too . a Celd"I '.. • .
to he transmitted to • the Russians. -•.: Generally ! Berlin . wtald. 01.t the material:
- . to-about, one .per . cent of•• *hat 3ntiject-nulm:cltted them. ,.. ,
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