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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.

  • p. 3 …SCHUB41, thd then Police President, he was promised a commission, but it never . Materialized. In 1930he…
  • p. 8 …then occupied by Polish guerrillas it was never recuperated, and Subject "persuaded,' thei to begin a…
  • p. 9 …But that never wttkect out well.- Then Subject ' • began with HOTIARY. ant'll. his written , signal…
  • p. 10 …agents had a signal plan, but they never had to repeat theirnossages and ! . nessages of over…
  • p. 11 …Subject's Pah naiY have drunk tOomuphand missed Mn.- He never tained up again. SubjeCt-AVtlais…
  • p. 24 …was now convinced that the woman had never received any money from the Swiss man, n…
  • p. 30 …when a safe address was given, subject never gave the address of • V.Leute, but had…
  • p. 31 …has never been completed and was destroyed by Subject beforehis 141,i0tt.-. 3. a: radio log…
  • p. 33 …Later intercepts showed that these headquarters mere never able to keep their promise. 12. In another…
  • p. 35 …GUTTAiMANN would never have given himsalf :up had_hemot suffered his soriors logwohnd. .. He was sufficiently…
  • p. 36 …A courier who was Sent there to getthe.; signal.plan never reachod Subject.
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SUBJECT: Detailed Intarrogation Report 9f Johann SANITZER, Gestapo, Vienna,
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1. Subjelt was arrested on 7 June 1545 in Salzburg, mistria, and has
since been 'undergoing a very extensive interrogation.
2. SANITUR was recognized by the Gla.as one of the leading Double
Ag_e_e_t_ienerators...irutba_aggq, and has shown in his interrogation to have
a moat extensive knowledge both of DA procedure and Allied Intelligence
\J • services. . . . .
Vi . 3. The Russian, French and British nFunkspialenn that are mentioned
, in detail in this interrogation are only a few of the many cases which he has
'handled. They are illustrated, however, as being.. representative 4 types
lof npiayan and are not all in which he was engaged.
4. Subject was not too -familiar with the organization and procedure
of the GIS monitoring services (see Appendix D), but insists that voluainaus-
intdreept reports. were corrolated . and distributed weekly by the OKW Funkueber-'
. !tabling Stolle indicating what he thought was almost a complete ' ,break" of all
Allied,military and agent traffic. . .
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5.- SANITZER was entirely familiar with the so-nailed, n one tine pal",
l and, although he is no code erATer44 was-, the understanding that it either.•
• was or mild be broken by the ()IS.' ;tip '/ •
by the Central Intelligence Agency
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