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PERSONAL PARTICULARS

Friedrich Walter SCHELLENBERG, Gorman national and RomanCatholic. Was born in Saarbrueckon 16.1.1910.

FAMILY.

Father: Guido SCHELLENBERG, piano-maker (Gorman)Mother: Lydia SOHELLENBERG, no° RIEDL, also Gorman. (Decoased.)

Brothers: BERNHARDT aged 01.43married. Wife's maidenname v. NIESEWAND.

LUDWIG, aged ca. 43,married. (Wife's mai-den nmmo unknown.)

GUIDO, aged on 38,single.

Sisters: CMISTINA, aged about50, married nameFLIDDERDIG.

ELISABETH, aged ea.47single.

JOHANTU, aged 45/6,married name KELLER.

ADDRESSES.

Father: Last known to bo living at Menzol a/Mosol, Luxembourg, withdaughtcr ELISABETH.

Wife: Last known to be Living at Pension Dachsenberg, PostUntorwessonbach, Marquardtstoin.

sammumacl a last permanent addross: Uferstadt, Babolsberg,Borlinerstrasso 131.

MARRIAGE.

First wife: Katho NORTEKMP, born May 1900. Marriod 18th May 1938,divorced November 1939, no children.

Second wifo: Irene GROSS-SCHOEMEPAUCK, born 8th Fobruary 1919.Married 10th October 1940.

CHILDREN.

INGO (male) born 27th May 1941.

ILKA (female) born September 1942.

SYBTtLE (fcmalo) born September 1943.

(Note: SCIELLENBERG anticipatod the birth of a fourth child to hispresent wifo in tho course of August 1945.)

F OREVORD

The information contained in this report • •has been obtained principally through diroct int-arrogation. Vith regard tv that part of SCHELLEN-BMG's story, however, which deals with his affortsin the peace negotiations of the last fag weeksbut' ore capitulation, SaKEILIMERG's autebiographicalstatement, supplamentedby further interrogationwhore necessary, has been used as a basis. Thisaccount of the events of that time was writton inSweden shortly after the surrender of Germany andit has bean considered that it was more chronologi-cally and factually accurato than his subsequentstatements.

Apart from certain observations the inform-ation furnished by SCHIMLENBERG on the organisationand structure of Ant IV and Amt VI has not beenincluded in the Appondicos as more accurate detailshave been availablo from other sources. In thisconnection it must bo stressod that, taken by andlarge, SCHELLIMERG has shown himself under intor-rogation to have little capacity for lucid expositionand to be confused and obscure in his writtonstatomonts.

INTRODUCTION.

On thu 7th Of July 1945 a German whogave hi:: u.ne '2riedrich 6u11,11.1•INEMGwas adlAtted for ptrapcsuz.., of interrogation toG.unp 020.

f;c1DP,J;i3iracta l r.; 4'1110 'X13 known to hawr.:eeived a c,:ri:ain 1rom:x.1 . 10o in the World Pruss,not only bc,cause of the impertant position in theG.I.S. that ho had hold Llr.ring the groator part ofthe war, b..:t also on account of tho leading part •he had play,d in certain pf.n.co negotiations.

.;emo few days before the cupitulatinn ofGermany, had in fact boon empoworodby the new i.',:rrn.n Goverr.ment under Admiral DOBNITZto upon ner,otiations with thu Swedish Governmentwith the intention of arranging the surrondcr of'tho Germ:: forc,-,s in the Northam Zone and thoopening of peace negotiations with tho VostornPergors. But SCIfia.n1.1430G's efforts to fulfill hismission were without result as the goneral capitu-lation of Germany, including tho Northern area,took placo bcforo the conclusion of negotiations.

After the cessat.on of hostilitiessarnazirmar., renamed in Sweden and VMS at tho -beginning of Juno 1945, approached by the Americanauthorities with a view to supi)lying certain in-formation. It was then put to him that he shouldplace himself at the disposal of the Allies andfurnish thur, with all tho information in his poss-ession .to which proposal ho agruod. On the morningof the 17th ef Juno, therefore, in t;.- company ofCount 3:11a;DOTTI', he flow in a Dakota to Pranldurton :Lain where hu was taken in charge by thor-uthoritius. On the 7th of July he -,r.s flown toLonaon.

APPENDIX mail.

mismaaancus P1RSON4J.ITI1S. •

WaL SCHELLENBERG provided a large amount of informationon personaitios, some of which has been omitted

the list given below, as it was either alroadywoll-known or too vague to be of any valuo.

1. ARNOLD Karl (Aadrid). Had formerly lived in south:awrica. Onhis roturn to Germany was trained byDr. PLEFPGEN personally and imam° thespocialist for the wholo courier service tothat contincnt. Ho dirooted and supervisodall Tostanlaufstellen (post-boxes)°, hadestablishod a good ^-ganisation in SpanishportJ, and was always dosoribod by17C,TYFIZIT as a reliable and painstakingworker. It was duo to him that Amt VIrocOived its courier mail to the ond. Hohad built . tp his own network of agents andran his OVA' lines, mostly to tho ..,rgontineand Brazil. Ho also provided good reportsabout the United Kingdom and vas in contactwith an oldorlywman sccrotary of thoUnited States nmbassy in Madrid. About 38 yeari--of ago. Formerly an oxport merchant.

24 CURTI.111 Journalist. Run by a Roferat of GruppoVIB as an ordinary V4iann, CUR TH came toSCHMA=TOG's notice through the largoamount of foroign currency which hooxpondod, without producing informationwhicli in any way justified this. TheRoferat, hawevur, omphnsisedhis importanceand or.pocially his inc:!nponsibility as,with his passport as a pc:rannt.mt oouriorof the Luswaortics Jjut, he was ablo totravel ovor the .:,tolo Westorn area undmoroovor procurod contacts with nglanddirect through Lisbon. SCHILL1NBERGthoreforo arranged to soo him personallyon his noxt visit to Borlin, and r000ivodan unfavourablo impression; ho spoke toomuch about his . important contacts, addingthat he also workod for the Henko-Dionstof the /.usmorti-ps Amt, as well as forthe ;.uslandsabt!...,. of the Propa7nndaminiomtorium and (SCHnLLIVTIRG boliovon) for theConsul-General in Zurich. From all thosoStollon ho r000ived considerablo amounts offorcirn currency. 3C1nUnN2ERG hadnothing dofinito against him, however, holulled him into a sons° of security and doolaredhimsclf in complote arToomont with his work.Mcnnwhilo ho had official enquiries mndo inhis home tmin (Doossoldorf) from which itapponrcd th-t h Fru: already boon in troublewlh thc authorition • on account of hisCommunistic activities and did not enjoy agoal reputation. Invostioation mado in

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2. ggat (contd.) .1so pr.wed unfavourablo andreve!led lunvy noney expenditurc,'oxponsivelady friends win:, he !my° out to bo his'Mitarboitor', and suspoctod honosoxuality.

ncumL-warm rocoivod from thoAumaerticca aut a report civin7 the names ofthc moubors of the so-calla °micro govornmontsin London, with tho note that supplanontmryinforaation could be soot from London butthat it would cost a larlo amount of money,and it tan ontablishod thatCURTH had delivoredthe sr.vio Material to Amt VI and the Propaganda-ministorium, 7,ivin,a, another souroo. Thiswould be about tho end of 1942 or early 1943,and SCHrIL:2131tC- then proposod that CORM bearrczted and as invostigation Made on thebasis of the evidenco.availablo of the supplyof false inforiation. This vas deco, but .CURTH was ablo to cscape bcforo the investi-3ation in Paris bean, and SOMME= neverheard anythin- further of him. Vosubsoquently, howevor, that CURTH must !Javadelivored ti the Auswaortirles Ant an nnormousaoount of information which was probably

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3. DONNHCPP Graf. DallalOFF was rtaaarded as.tho successor of=MDT in Switzerland. Ho enjoyeddiplmatic throu7h his pcaition ofConsul, and SCE-MJENWMG boliovos that hesucccoOed in ostablishinc himself in Zurich.This only beetwo possible booause in this caseAmt VI for oncn really had the comp3ete supportof the .AusanorLigos /At, sinco DOMELOFF was aclozo friend of STL-INGRACHT. • • SCHRDLEHBMG

'himalf only mot him Oct, he was leaving Berlin,aftor ho had boon trained by SE andnnrrom. Ho cave him a fairly exact notionof his political ideas and asked him to workroughly on thoso linos. POSHHCFP was verysurprised as ho had novor suspooted SCHRUM.-ram would spook so openly. The latter isunablq to say whothor ho actually did anythingin Saitzorland or c von whothcr ho got thereall right, Tao only report ho remembers fromDORMOFF van onJ he cubmittod during histraining en the impossiblo mothads omployed bythe Clantapo aml la-lpo in the conduct ofintorro4ations of oscapod and -ecapturod Britishprisonors of va.r and the bad 1.Iohaviour of theguard La.,. g. F:C:71,17.Z1'lIT2G LasedintelysW,-4 " . 1 t. reportroport to Oborgruf. WAGER, hoodof ttia 1-,,,ant, who promised

id also informeddcrandod a ropor.

fro.:/ :,...„7,2tc“, by 'SCHELLENBERG I 1:1ordor chi;o1: 1 . ,) him.

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" ?IMO. August. Practically nu intelligonce reports of valueworo roccived from FIN} E in Sweden, andPAPYPGCNw .:,.s continually complaining about thedeficicncy of his information and had domandodhis rocall on aoverl ocoazions. No wasfroquontly ..trelitmc.07. to Berlin and severelyreprimanded, Lut this had no offect.

Sweden wz.:: of the most important outpostsfor espion.::, against Russia, America and •England, .1.n this respect PINK3 failed •completcly. As information was so genoraland the wur,os so vague that its valuecould only 1> takcn collootivoly. Two orthree ti.. c sent scvoral useful mossagosabout ootr;.7 trains, but SCHELLENBERG is unabloto rec:.11 outstanding reports about hispolitic , 1 a. Hovover, his reports aboutthe intern:a position in Swodon, Swedish/Finnizh rel: 'ions and the dotailod obscrvationof Gormon/S.Mish economic conditions, asfactor in its,lf as woll as in relation to theWestern perann. , wore always good and timoly.Thoso auctoess , ;.: wore ossontially duo to theco-oper-tin o. a largo nunbor of honoraryassict•TI;;; .ho hp d rot:mufti:A as time wonton, :ona .11 thG active collaborationof tb:: eirclo centred on the nowspapor

1-tt , , which he finanood withmoncy :is • :Iinistry and from theAuvv.tort: . Amt. . • 1.T.ENBERG boliovos thatthe ama 1. • 72,0Q - ; oner monthly. ThisSwodisl- • L r.)nnoctions throughout thecountry 1 N JAI r!:-.:aunist and Ti-ado Unioncirolcz. fla .:M12-7.111ER: repoatodly adviemdthat au r.tt,-Aapt should be made to use thischannel t) obtran information on Russia, andapparently FIN171 eventually began to work onthis in ..rner:t. He collaboratod with Dr.KIST on the •7Aostion of making contact withthe introduced to him a cortainBALL (=XL or cow nmno ), aplatinum ,',oalcr wilt) claimed to know SLIM'parson:11y had lived for many years inRussia. 1 4 homvar, that KLEISTmile no r thi:1 contct.

In addition, MINE kmas nearly all the Germanjournalist:. rn ,3 tr.a countless Germans who,with the J.. of their .Cwodish acquaintances,ac 1;. : lurolltz; the matorial thoyprovide, hrfct,vor, r.terely of a gonoralnature. Hi:; z.,Ionts *!.•:.!ludod:"

(n) Jo .1 His prinoipal assiatant and=-01-7-The !Folkots-Dagblatt'.

(b) PENZLIN. His most importantcollaborator amongst the Gorman journal-ists.

APPENLIIX=711.

44 FISKE, August (contd.) (o) 1.4M1IA1JSEN, Graefin v. EMployed as ap.id agent nt the end of 1943 and in 1944.Sho otnod information from the societyelrc]es in which she moved, and wasparticularly in contact with the familyof tho Swode GalFMIN through whomsho socured roports concerning Amoricanand En7;lish circles in Stookbolm,

himsolf was a mombor of theSwedir.h Intolligonco Service, and musthavn had a ,groat dr:al of monoy, as ho:.Gpt rt largo houso and ontortainod141,1shly. Thu Graofin was separatedfrom her husband, who was said to bo in2inland.

(d) a:.11312.cr." .= .

(c) Von GLX.:M.

(0 Von GOMM. Loiter of the RailwayPornonnol hk:ad Office.

(g) Von dor GOLTZ. Banker.

He also had on hand a ronogado Russian,formcrly 7. well-known Bolshovik, who hadlivcd for a long time in Gdrmany and waslatterly employed in the Japanese Embassy inStockhlm ns translator.. From timo to timeho supplied innsrmation about Japan, butnothing of vtaue, nnd SCHELLENBERG boliovoshim to bo a Russian ag(.nt. FINKE had nogonuinc contLot in any other EMbassy, neitherad ho over succeed in sondiv, any reallyimportant Cocula:nt or roport.

Towards the end of hin stay in odon ho wason goo'1 tcrms with DANKWORT, Counsollor of theGerman Ilastsay, and they discussed in dotailiho form in which FISKE should best organisost:y-be'clint7 organisation in Sweden for the

Lat. DANKWORT offored FINKE-mount of up to 500,000 Kronor, but nothin^

evor a•ue of thoso plans.

1=t 3 expulsion from Sweden, /CALM-.BRUITIP:s . waatod to sand him to Zt,rrob, butSMTILI=M; protested that this would wastebin th, mtr;h knowledge and good oonnootionsin the North anil arrangod that ho should beatt-.chcd un an Obor.Rog.Rat. to BEST's staffin r;o1,enh-znn, from whore ho was to try toronow contm!twith Swodon. FINKE accordinglyvont t) Cepcnhagon in February or March 1943,using tho 'Irmo SCHILLING (or SCHILIINGS).

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2011SCruLANEOUS PERSONALITIES - contd.

5. FREUND Oberst.Lt. Groppealeiter VI 1, who formerly worked underROHLEDM and doalt with questions affectingtho Balkans. H.' was an oxpart on counter-ospionago, ard SCHELLEKBMIC chose him forthis work because ho was lass obetinnto andargurontativo than RCEMER• Ho collaboratedclosoly with Dr, SCHMIDT of the Seerotariat,who nlso rrr.de :ise of him for eounter-espionartwork. at homo i end was a valuablo oollsoguavis-a-vis .mt IV, i.e. agairstThe latter nursed a plan to take over tho whole)of counterwespionage as a Stapo domain, and tohand over this work to the Police .;ttachesabroad. SCHELLMBERG doos not know much aboutPRa/ND's work bofore ho joined VI Z, whorehe was a nowcomor, but oonsidors that bo musthay° bon spocially successful in the Balk•Ins,whoro ho know all the linos, and that homust Maro boon vory efficient, sinao he wasre commandod by ovorybody. Othor spocialterritories of his waro Switzerland, Spain ^ndPortugal, In Switzerland ho workedparticularly on the solution of the 'Agent 509'case, and ho maintained closo contact withFritz CR.IICH in Portugal and with ROHRSCMIDTin Spain, In tho lattor country ho worked,'.gainst JOIN rnd LEOEBUR. He also doolt withan interesting caso in 'airkey (which asroportod by LEMIC=1), where a vory goodagent worked, whc was Icrol7n to the BritishIntolligonco Service as •Profossor'. Zr.Istanbul ho dealt with another big cast:), .1:le:.concerned the 4.ustrian Freedom IL:roomont andhad ramifications in Vienna and the fort.=Sorverit WniCt3 there,

COMLIG Hatuf Fritz. SCHEILMERC to-Ac GOERING on his pars :.7-1staff in 1944 on the roconrondation of IA..SCHTEXIM, his socrotary, COME:ND, th,mhnorriod, was hoping to be divorced fr'm hiswifo and t ) merry SCHIENRE. Ho wne thenabout 40 years of age r.nd had prrri...uslyworked in :zit IV. SCEELL&BMIG did n..)t usehir. far intelligonce work: his chief dutywas to lcx.k nftor important guosts, suchMOST, in the villa in whit..h ho lived, Hodid, howover, on occasion exploit COEHING'sformer colt act with ,..mt IV to facilitatoliaison, :ad his friendship wit:2 BaSINSKI, anatal owner, with a view to using the hatolbusinoas for purposes of the G.,I,S,

7. HANEL. HAM. had lived in the DUtch East Indio;merchant, and with his experienco of Lit,:

w;r1d thus vined had MAC a great impresoi.nan HITLER and RI.33ENTA0P.had rmio his acquaintanco thrJugh SPITZ',ra fv'.o various attorapts to uso hin f .:r his .vaapurposos, r $ ho'knott that ha h a d HITIZi'soar, and at tho boginning of 1944 ha:: 1-:ng

vdth hira, arr'ngo el through SPITZI.

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7. ( nte,. ) SCHELLilslaatG outlin:a his difficultios in thesphoro foreign p)litics r.n: with 4I3Br2IIIIOP,Vac: thnt thc trontor.t of theoccupiod torrit . ., rios •.:.,,31•7. mak° almost anyform foroign polities impossibla„ and askedhim if to c: , u3/: inflturreHIThL toriardschanging this policy. raplied thatIIITLZ-1 was n rdin.”-/ :an but a. genius who3e.7; teings quite diff:ortIntlY, 'ad in thisspocific mattor view was that thenecupiad torrit r• n:t bo troatod in

1:omocratic fashi :Jtt r al y as potentials., urcos f 7.* FIT zr toi i f I. SCHFLIZNBEAGsu4.;ostod that this vi ba changed, but

ratortol that h; with HIMF.et,t in •rr., case th., 1-ttor roe,ardod

hirosolf to such -n extont r hiatorio figurcthat nr.y *.)f his :;;1itic ..1 utterances must bec:nsidere,1 -s totally binling and n)t open toquestion. SCI-D/L2 si3ZiCO ranlised that hewould. n:t got any furthc,r with B'...1`.431., sincehe 7:as c:mplotoly urZ.or HITLat's

3:10 ti, muEu.za suspected him of.ospiartgo; this was in connoction with soma7.'/T mossago which could _ally hove boon knownt: so:-c ;no in IIITLat's immodinte ontourogo,anf. circumstances night hove) pointed to &all..riewovor, nothing can) :f this mottor,

.d•tor SCICI.I.RT3.211G t s P-1.1uno to interestin his affairs tho latter for n tine

nrer c/oeor to The roasonf, .a. this was that IC—L=10.1MR; had monr.ged tobring him back into tho Fuohror e s favour orinfollowing poriod when ho had fallen intodisfavour through not h-.71.r.g invited Z.vaBILUN to his nodding at tha boginning of 1944.

.SCri71L3N-BraG he nothin7 Parther to do withaftor tho 7.1V10 •, f 1944.

8, ICLULBACH. Oborst. i.e. Bef2n) lonviart in the Spring f 1944 t tokoup his opprAntrant rt3 idilitary ntt.-.cha inLisb'n, KAULB:.CH paid tho routine officic.1visit to SOREL.I.z1.73LiG, wh expounded to Limhis ideas on th role Lalitary ,'ittaitisgx nightplay in the Ht.: was very responsive

promiso: to assist 7:ith practiealsu . -ostions for the inplenantntion ofSTIT,LLENB..1tG's theorios. Botwean the Spring

_uturm•A* 1944 ho sent him a report onthe -anural political situation in Portugal,an'. in hi3 return to Oorany in tha utwi

11,5 sur-.ostod at r1 further mootingthat . the Lilitary ..ttachds should control theI.S. abroad. SCIIELLEN13.41G did not sea him

n;r did ho receive illrthar reports,

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9. ELATP, 4tichard, This r:.icnt was run by Vior.nn (Oborst :MU)0 /Ci.NDEitS (or raiums) sift trrked in tho first instance foriSourcc nillttuy intolliGcnc , J. His =ports on,BUdapost. uasicm rryi L.,ott.-as wore r.r,d core

classed es 1 1: . port .-tt t4 the ..Shmacht(lieeroswichtig)', an: tto Gonerrl Staff'Frer.de Hoer6 Oat' .11A highly of him.On air ;vitt:Ira th.4 wor 3 work, rnd Cupoll tied quo a ti: no 3 :.otines :721d ••ndsor.etines bid. Ho was h alt-wish, ond thecase WS 3 1 17 C 711 tea all Tr: to IIITL.3.0sstrict .1r.".ur th ,. t n . . Tows must ho ccaployodon intollilatco T;rk. One of his pareznaleaenios r a °bora t (DM..111S), fa rrurlYa Sofia I rr-ye.r, Stutt,-ort, allogedth-t :r the Aussie.=or fb r the 3...itish Ta..L.7r ran hisorgan ix r. vzy su cc :4331141/y1 he had thead'vanto 1• rk it, 7 • i ti Lat. Vienna, whicheurliod docopti -.117-back ratorial.

boc!:..o inlonondont andstartod r. rkinq 7.1th HOE'fTL rood '.7/1111dClf.Lt th r. t tirio Scits.L.:L1 ,132.V; asked Oberst.Lt.OILLETZ, t hand t4.1 bay e a 1..okat his '3h42' in ate.-Nst, ahich wassusp3cto.1 t C olaorin • all sxrts of Blacklektrkot (.4xchonle r.n their) illicit deals,but aftor spondi five. :a invostiga-tk na ONLZTS o u1 n .t tin. onythin% sus-picious. Then SO:14..1.21;3;./(G, whoh t tquickly baf.:rs ;ration withHCETTL cad 1C boca:n close to pre-vont succossful surraormodOberst 7,'IMs; Via:nr. tn .! askod hi= toinvostiga to. The latt uni out thatthe rh in reality ;)roviclel intelligencefor KLI:IT ' a rackut rt wyoranal Princo TU40-1.. Ma lottur had a WhiteRUM Ian line t Thas lir.os alaolOt t: L-erbul Drotislava.arrost,..: (;.1 tiler 7dth twentq-eir;htaryl 1 rtr, - h fs-rriod a. tl c d,cant, -11 urts if nndov,...n lo3t a.-71 rnn fr.)nVionnat. fteronly ". •s it r.as ,..ssiblo to resumework tbx u,h la.LTr's ,r3ontaat1:n, however,on.: r.lthiu-h for the first a ask the

oc1inail in vrluo it grr duall yinrorovo r in t h on 1 bac-ma excellent.

Ur nate rr d maul. ( see below)to Dorlin t serve a d wAtkt )n

10. ICI.ELST, Dr. 3runa,end II.LUS.

Dr. It y.11I0 :ZI.:-..IST was used a s an overt onaLt1S3 ian off" irs by itIll:N1'.t0P, ICALTF/TUUNNE,t,sarazz:Dzitc and Oserst .,..GNEct in Steckholn.Officially ha wee a Idiniotorinlrat in theOatrainist oriun. V•h,n 1.0 was thmotanodwith cnllo.. tt , Sa-L;1.L.3NlLiG orrangodthnt ha ah :uld jin th.4 ',.aff.4n SS. and thenhad him pistarl to tho ...u.swaorti,;es r.A.Ho for oinco 1943,but his d.oac, enno cti a with ,i133..VCAOP

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10. KLEIST, Dr. Bruno,and KLaTS—rc.ciiitcl.1

u. mama, Karl Rotas Stx khola).

?lent bock at lonst ti 1939, Whon ho waswith HILGE,t in R)sc.‘rt. Ho was a z..w.bsrtho osr1 I.3.ENT113? lumou in el.-r•tiny withOuch non as 0..03331N mnd GOTTF.aEDSEN.

He he with hi= in Stockhola as his chiefrtont and assistnnt rt 3a1tic Tow narnd KLAUS,who received lore au= .1t money fromOberst UGH& and, throurn KLEIST, frometI3.3DITI2CP. In 1944 ICLOS transmitted to

mrn s of "eaco offer from theAussian3. The latter sent it by 17/T urcablo to 0...W.A.LIS who, beim; in this rospeetpolit icolly noivo, 2es9ee. it dirootly to

.17.ve i t ti HITIE.t. The lattererlquired obit tho s)urca, n heoring Unitho was a J".:oa innedie.tely issuod his eelebratodorder that .7017a wero n: 1 )n.l•r to beam:a-lad in the chiefAussino wre S.24.1i0V in the AtussianElbosoy in St..ckholrat—Z—froquentlyvisite'. his h:.use are ha-'. tr.lks with him.His )thar itussion contact was ANDiiEYEV, whowas cliplomtic courior who travolledbotwocn Lorvbn and I.Lsce,J. SCHiLLSTSEAGhod absolutely no calif ie.ancto in KLAUS'military on ,'1ticnI rt )tts, rn t never not

wrx, to ft t neat Li. He rni nte ns th...2L3:3ENTAOP tru stod this "bviously unrolinblo=in fr:ri pro m boorue o hewmatud to C7:10 t7 toms with the Aussiana.

Doth KLEIST : ,n-1 advica onAnsel rsi quo st ions to tho Unto rneh--nnZ.,:pnelin of ..r.t VI onP. nartieularly toISICZ.HZTPT. an.Gat „ e n rItzh less helpfUl

•than KLEIST f•re. woe .Tonorally not 7).):.)u1ar,SCHM..LEN3E.G himeolf cLinci t haves.intainod contact .with the latter in .ortlerto be infonae of "50 "i3 3 nocptiotions withthe 'oast. VI's othur alvisorRussian mottors woo Graf SCHIL2L1Li0, whomSCHILLMMILtG know well but zufrtrded re anordinary o fficicl with n tivo.

Foraerly 0 Homburg los:Tor. SCric.LIMIZU1,20hoard his f:r the first ti.:33 fromDALTFELDT, tr whom ha hr.:. :ioonsionellyworked. Ho was 'more ssed by his -?oliticalre,orte ths U.K. n ths for the

,LIT, and thcruf-,ro suit closercontnct with him. Hu aunt od reports ontho situ , ti:n in the 2ritiski F.:roign Officeand the viswo if tha 'C;nservotiwo07cositi.in with in tho /ruuar Circle(i.13Y....ISON). Dr. nct SOHUDD.WKOP!7:ero vory critical ufhiL, tillong thatho t k hie rr.arts tha .3ritish Pressir t h.) S. I.S. Or.ths Thur h rirl Dr. 7;LLSIN0,one 3f 3MIELLL\■.3E(0's m;st ob L c .11aboratorsoff. tho f the Zer.tr-1 busro, with whamho c Ilnb rr.t,.; in t u 3 iti cal 0...mairt,th t r rrr.t t'. o^1 ) f hhi. Ho noedoi a

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tiMM:Tsirtilr.CUS P.3.t.9014-LIT=S -

11, lagaLi t Knrl Heinz (St askholro) °Jut di

great clon1 :)f n 'me" , r.rri in SC:SLIM7..111tG'sview this wae tho ronson why h3 was ro-garded with sus, lei ;to far el lbw; tine.

He was first run by IMETHISTUallt end laterby Oberat.Lt. Von DE who arts ftr=erlyin the Luftwaffo fU3 hruncmatab and tharohid clifforances of crinion with the Ic,Oborst.17011.G. The latter's o. ) asitbn toLIVITZ trr.naferred itself to L2.1.ari.;:,ndho ordored his chiafs 3f soctions to oon-:Ale a con, nshens iv° nccorandurathat ltd...21.1.1.xt's rop ;rts raprosentedcons ci ous ,Iscopti 711 '05r the onecly or f noel .This c-e r cor.ori sing nearly elittypages, •.1r. ,2 717or. :irtuzz.L by s..aDA,a,

without c Jusultin,3 SCHELIEN.3116, with arequest to stErrt rxt co adin4s for aspaGninst KRIME.c. LII.U.I.L1 put two of histhat specir.lists ;n t Job, arc: a diaputobegan tot 'soon bin on a ammarizac. Moronem c nuaber of we-k punts in ICAU.M.rattsnilit+ry rep :rts, o.. ho had rep rt d3riti sh ircraft os which, a cc:)r ding12.: the e vidcnco f intl th pris oners-of -war,did not exist a t all . :Another 2:watery"zas the tine fr ct 1r in the trrmanissiof his reports. Oft .m, for instmco, .counter °mu/ries roferring to sane rai ;toplace in ZnArnd wore 0.reworod within tcrihuurs. Fimlly, nany discussicaswe. necotir.t 1. as, SCID.1.12N2.12LiG was hi naalff:bliged t sum•n 1et.;.11■121cto 3er1in.Walal.t t s plrn was t) r rrost bin, butSCHELLFZI3LIG not:matte: this by to1lln. hintthat in rt orsorrl talk with KLLIELE,t hohad au cc oo led in cl crri n tri tha roastdoubtful issues old that for technicqreasons he co uld n 1 t run )unce his

eD 1 Inb (anti n . In xt-flity he was irrldrto.ntto SCIMILENDG boom se of his ..1)liticr.1reports, and the lcttur allewoo. binleave Germany ar;r.in. Duri theirconversation he ha I cLclrad that ho uldnot rovonl the names of his c)11ftb3rnt,rsunless SCHELLE133tG as properx1 to dispensewith his servioos in the future, but at thoerne tine he offered plausible explanationsfor his co -operation with Swedish frionds,Tho c.ally thing ho rovcal,g1 was that 8 J14)

his frionds were in tho Swodish F.:roirstOffico. He was itorbidden tu have directcontact wi th t ho Luftwaffefuehrungsstab )rcthor service e.opartit.n ta, in ...rater to7ivo n loapholo for SCITELL3NaltG to bext :' roacho i in ita the fact t hat ho socuredIt the aurco irqoortrzt material for apossiblo exchango f into111.3ence tutertakonby him.

MISCELLANEOUS PEASONg. IT IES - c nt d.

11.

Dui Heinz It was kia.Mtiit's 1 . 3rtrayal of events which

laltTekbolro) contd. confirrod SCHELLEN , L.tG in his intentionto cb everythinEs- in Corneny itself in thequestion of the Iowa and Church policy topremre the way for the creation of aWestern bloc of states under the leadershipof 3riteln, of which later a crippledGermany would form 7t rt. SCHELLEMERGassured that there rust be contact betweenthe 'Conservative Opposition in En.Tlandl,the Vatican, end a Conservative ;Voup inFrance under 3IDALT, which could beexploited by a purF;e 1 GermnY raid in thisway the basla c ronted for a corroromiss.111 this hap7ened in 1944.

12. KAMM. KATEGEgt was a forma' r.aaber of the Dienst..stone .a31EICR0P, r nd SCHELL3LruiCbolieres that ho was 11.th HIJ.ENTLI)P inthe U.K. He was net n rember of the SS.but ams r. to =ter Hadourg lawyer, about 37years old, and hod not been celled upbecause be was blir4 in one eye.

Ho had worked with DZIFELDT in VI D, and cnoday care to SCHELL-M:2;1C with al offer toso it for VI Wi, tei.lin. him that he hatedAr33ENT.40P, which predisposed him in hisfavour. His stuguatiun was that he should713 rk in a Czech sugar firi . and use thisconcern to build tr -11 I-Service withconnections in Switzc.rland. Permissionand approval were r ined fr:m the itoich-,wirtscha ft sministe ri um, but SCiELLENDI2Gdoes not know who the v ahem wassuccessflal. He saw K.JUECE.t for the secondtirm in 1944, when he visited hiro fromPrague and told him that he hal Swiss friendswho co uld provide writt ;waifs ofarnion,tor t a firnneial deals in Switzerlsod,but Me.. :lade the condition t hnt four Czechswho were in prison in 3ratislava should befreed. SadELLENJEiG approve ,1 if the dealand got in contact with the Stap.Istolle:hatialava, who maintained that only onoof the f.Jur was in the pris.:n and clamedto release him. Thcose negotiations tookplace in Anuary/February 1945, and5Cf1I.E1,121EAG does not know the :.utcoroo.ICATEGFat bad meanwhile re co ved a letterfrom a .Swiss, a director o f a firmon,lagod in the auaar `Jusinasa auowatin.-;•a mooting in Bo dons oe. SCILL-413/1(0approved of this =KAMP; but did not hearfr,ra )i:a again.

KoliEract spoke good nish nr.-1 was elesulyoonneeted with DIETZE, who worked in thePron rtr!finifIrani nt n rinra. He wcs ale.) ael ,U ar!.. )1* STE:c2,Li.d.J1f1: the45uswaertiqoa .Lmt, "'h .; had he:, him endwho sym2athiaod with him in L:s lisliko )f.a.33ENTROP.

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MISCELLANEOUS :ERSONALITIEe - contd.

13. AOENEN. Or. An Amt VI representative ih ToXyo.He wasa young lawyer, aged about 32, who hadgons to Japan in 1940 to study; he camefr.= a pool of studsnts provided by theSO Mannschaftshaeuser. In Japan theretie held some nominal post in the Embassyhe 5p;rnt money and lo d an easy life.He produced no rosults of kind, andall ttel.:,,ts to isake him do any'real workfor At VI t.iled. he had little or nocontact with MEISINGLR

14. MATSU ENQQ. L. Col. SCHELLENEE1W b .aiew:s thz:t L.:JO ENDOuorked for OHLETZ and FREUND in connec-tion ritn the iaL. A'gT. nevcr himselfmet him and does* not b rdicve him to taxebem Lmportent.

15. UIHAILOV, Ivan .This Euigi.ri:.r. from 14 . .cadonia V.hs tic

cf th ,p L:ov..ment, and livcdfor i.:$117 5N:.7.rs maigr%. His

c*.A.ef Las Dr. TSILEV inSofia. EilLMERUNDER and WANNECK had

c.uch :.do -bout :dm h:aci ovr-mon_y and co=issions.

It was pl..nn,d:-

1) To r,:iso 14cdonian Volunt..rCorps to fight ...gainst the Croaks

in th ,v .:nt of Gval„.21tocusand in rvra cc.uipped.

2) To 1...akz, conccnsions toEule:acia in 41bani: .

3) To use mIHA1LOV fz.ctor toord::r and .11 instrul:nt

through thich pr. :An- couldih t ol'

domcstit

rzol4 t.:, )1,a1cork tr:,ry to t , XALTZN-

BRUNN:;ii,a L'i4nd D nE“CHFR. It1,'.d to •2.1:.szs ftIctIon, 014 ,is

.!ith taut-OLt Froil int. point of

the Lhoi-:- '.N-thi,ss. Itcost . gz.-t lf thor:.z.:*.;:ou to %rf;vi.. ti .0 thPci:z1v .:.nik in 14 h.:susoZHI.ILOV lid liv6. ful: 7.: :1 y,"re"

hin 1It rThn ;.1o• oi

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APPENDIX XXIII

NISCELLANEOUS PIRSONALITIM - contd.

There were numerous intelligens. linkswith MIHAILOVIC. The main lines led to theIs of the Heeresgruppe Sud.Ost and to thestaff of the Minister Dr, NEUBACKER, whohad with him officers of the military I.S.(e.g. /Capita= Dr, LANGE, Dr, HAMER (?)and many others), as well as Hstuf, DrWILMER, the liaison offieer of Grupe VI EHAESKER even elaims to have maintained hisown WiT personnel at the headquarters ofAIHAIDOVIC. Military and politieal opinion.as to the importance of ICITAILOVIC differedconsiderably, and sometimes the formerprevailed and sometimes that of NEUBACHER.In addition an impurtant role was played bythe Germander of tao Sipo and by the HSSuPF,who had views and contacts of their Oen.SCHELLENBMG balietes, however, thatNEUBACHER had the best eonnootions.

NEUBACHER was of the firm opinion that heload enter into contact with the Britishregarding the solution of the N1H1ILOVICquestions. The whole issue became pressingin the course of the last months, becausehe intended to provide arms for about40,000 volunteers of baHAILOVIC, in order towin his movement Over to Germany and to useit as a fighting unit against Russia andTITO. This plan dfailod repeatedly owing tothe strong resistance of tho Wohrmaeht,which had no confidence in ICHLILOVIC andhis organisation, though it was increasinglyinelin:d towards the opinion that he waspursuing not so mush a pro.conmunist as apro-British policy. The wohrilawht•ategorieally refused to arm his troops,maintaining that it did not want to set upan adversary on its flank and in its roar,

Dr. NUM-RER sent via WANNECK =armsreports against Dr, HAESKER, alleging thathe was dishonest, had a firm financial holdover NEUBACHER and had used his awn positionin order to feather his own nowt. Homaintained that =MR 1 8 frequent tripeto Switzerland ought to be watched,SCMILINBMG WA that it was a fact thatwhen HAESKIII was in Switzerland in Marsh.m'aming W/T messages sould not bedeeyphared beeauso he tad not handed overtho wade.

16. MERAILOVIO Drahas

17. MEOW, Rittmeister Von (T. 100).

4 high grade professional intelligonse agentwho eame from the JAHNRE Bureau, with which,SCHELLENBERG believes he maintained hissonnoetion to the end. Prior to this heis alleged to have worked for many yearsfor tho Japanese Intelligence Service.Through a Jagdsehuetz •ompany ho hadsucceeded in obtaining direct contact withHEITRICH and his Adjutant, a Major POMOand received from that souroo a salary

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17. PETR07, Rittmoister Von T. 100 - contd.

MIsCELLAHE0U0 PLMSOMALITIDS - oontd.

whish continued to bo • p:•.id to him evor whenho was with =CHER, under whom he wc.:kodin Paris for two or thrL-) yoars.SCHELLERHERG had thu im!.-ossion that inPorts he lived woll and led =CHM by thenose, Ho paid one visit to Spain on amission for HROCHER.

Soma time in 1941 he paid a visit to Rome,whore he visitod an old V-Mann who was •alleged to have sone conaeotion with theAmerioan I.S, The Itali%n Policeintervened and arrostod -.his agent. Anawkward situation then arose forSCHILLENHERG, beoaus., th, Amt VIropresentativo in Rome, rr. GROEBEL, wasinvolved, and SD espiona,:e in Italy hadboon forbidden, by HITLat. ConsequentlySCHZLLERBMG sacked GROEBEL.

PEM1017 frequently visited SCHELLERIERGbringing political information, the lastooeasion being in the latc Summer of1944, shortly before ho left forSwitzerland, where ho was going, afterhaving first made various short visits,prineipally for reasons of his ownsafety/ Ho was to undertake a missionfor KALTENIRUNNER, to whon ho had beenintrodueod by SCHEIBLER and who for a longtime told everybody that PETROV' was workingfor hits in Switzerland. From remarks whiehSCHEMER aooidontally lot fall, SCHELLEN-BERG gathered that ho must have had a largesum of money paid out to him for the(mention of this mission. he had nomeans of communication of his own fromSwitzerland to Germany, however, ho rolledin Switzerland on DAUMDT, who had toforward his post to tUTaTEANNER. Finallya directive waa issu4 thal a monthlysalary of, SCHELLERECIZG bol-mes, 3,000'rano be paid to PETROW th-ough thischannel, SCHELLERBERG does not knowwhether SCHEIDL32 himself c:dored thissalary diroo$, or whether the amountwas later charged to Amt VI. ToSTEME's great regret, DAUFMET forwardedall PETR0V/3 letters diruot to HALTER-HRUiRER: This resultod in a positionwhore often quito unimportant, indeedfrequently false or misleading reportsfrom P3TR0W were immediatoly mado use ofb7, 7ULTENBRUNNER, who was later urarillingL. reasons of prestige, to idouo anamondod version. Finally ICALTENBRUNNERmoo rathor seriously to grief over oneof PETROW's roports, and decided that ifho roturnod ho must bo oallo ouverely toaccount. PETRO'S,/ played off ':-,LTENPRLIWRand SCHELLMBERG against e-x. other.

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MISCELLANEOUS PERSONALITIES upnta.

174 Pre ttmoisi Vg a .•-Permerly PETROW had :brought quite goodpolitical reviews, but his reportsfrom Switzerland latterly smacked ofdeception material. SCEMZJOWERG padthe impression that bo was a doublo aont‘altbough possibly not a conscious on6.),but had no idoa for whom he woo primarilrworking, if for any-one. Whenever hu .tanpressed about his sources and vonronnho bacams reticont. SC1MIZIMMM1G hadrepeatedly commissionod VI Z to Danko aninveatigation in Switmor/and, but thozuwoo never any result. He had a .idocircle of acquaintanoos, and his principalsourceo were mostly South Americandiplomats. A typical PETROV report was25 pave long and was based on goasiphoard in Switzorland or Franco. Hopossosaed a Chilean paasport and a varyrich Jewish-Swiss mistress, FASTNACHT,who lived on his estate near Borlin,spooks rorench, German, Russian andprobably Spanish.

18, RENAU, Dr. Dr, RE:AU, a typical civil sorvant whohad worked in Amt IV, first in thoGrenzpolizei and than in Spionago-Abwehr, was seconded to mastSCEILIANBERG in his negotiationo withCount BERNADOTTE, after the formr hodasked BlMiLER to toll SALTENBRUNNER toappoint an Amt IV man with full poworuto arrange releases of prieonore whichbed boen agreed with BERNADOTTE. PLNAUwas particularly helpful and co-opern+4.vethrouchout the nogotiations and hadestablishea friendly rolationc with th.Danish Iinister, Dr, WAASS. With hiJ wifs:clod doughtor he of:coped to Sweden inSCHELLEZERG's party, as a rcault ofBERNADOTTE's appreciation of bin holpful-nese. MUELLER knew of his appointmnt,but had no further contact with him: hecertainly did not know in advance of L1Jofficial,eacape to Spedon.

19, SALGADOlo co-operation with the G,I.2.was esoontially political: he vna tosupply political intolligenee fromBrazil in return for asaiatance in binambition to overthrow the existinggovernment and become Hood of Shimoolf.

ALBUQUEKUN, his sooretary, on the othurhand, work,Id for NASSENSTEIN. His ropertocovered various ft/Ads and SaEMLEZELC.considers it likely that thoy inoludodshipping information. Ho saw thorn both inLisbon in 1941 or 1942.

411 111 -44

20. SCHWARZ v BERdK

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ICESCLILANEOUS PERSONALITIES - contd,

SCHEILENBERC was intrlduced to SCHWARZ v.BERCK by STEIMLE at the beginning of1944., or possibly the end of 1943. BERCKwished to furthor the co-operationbotwoon Amt VI and the Propaganda-ministorium, i.e. ho wanted to rocoivopolitical reports, as his Minister onocoet$nually complaining of the scantyinformation supplied by the AuswaortigoLAmt. As at that time hie stook atoodvery high with GOEHBELS on account of hispolitical articles in the 'Reich',SCHELLMBERG pormittod STIMLE to eivehim now and again several itoms ofinformation direct at tho Propaganda-miniaterium, and not through the liaiaonofficer of Amt VI. In return GOEBIr7.1was at last to cancel his refusal toalloy foreign journalists to work for theI. S. Purthormoro, this intelligoncochanncla of Amt VI would be placed at thodispoaal of the Propc.gandaministorium forthe launching of socrot propaganda (MoroSCHELLENBERG romarkr that for anyonewho knov the internal conditions the fact ththe Propagandaminiatorium desired thiaform of collaboration nas nothing butof the rivalry which oxistod betwcon itaAuslandrabtl. and the Kulturabt. ofthe Auswaortiges Amt). STEIMLE'sco-operation with v.HEROK did rot lastvery lone, nor WD3 it vary into:vivo;the latter showod too clearly that horequired the information in the firstinstanco for hia journalistic articico.In the last half ycar, if not for loneor,STEILLE mnde no mention of the nme toSCHELLEIZCHG, who knows nothing ofv. BERCK's journey to Spain, possibly onthe orders of Amt VI: be cannot believethat STZIMLE would have instigated sucha misaion without informing him. Hohimself searhim only onco„ or at the mosttwico, after their initial mootirg, andhad done co in ,,rder to put a stop to thecomplaints which GOE.:BELS was always makingagainst CANARIS and himself.•

eonsidors that v.BYMCK was neverintert.ating from an intolligenco point ofview, and that only in the intornalpolitical game was he of a certain .importance. Ho waa a very close personalfriend of MILER, and in the last year7.TO the advocate nf a whispering camprianin Germany to the offoot that an alliono6with RU33i0 and the formation of a Soviot...,Germany wemld be advantageous. Ho veryskilfully explained away the danger of theabovo by saying that it wan only to mak°an impression on the Western powers. Inovvoct, howovor, this propaganda workedout ifi thc main pro-Soviot.

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MISCELLANEOUS FEhSONALITIES r contd.

21. SOMENHOL SONNENHOL was a Legationsrat in theAuswaertiges Amt and a member of the SS;as ouch, he worked for some considerabletime for Amt V7 in an honorary capacity.He was a personal friond of STEIMLE, whowas able to recruit him for co-oporationin a particularly binding form. SONNENHOL,who was concorood almoat cxclusively withWootcro affaira, was a connoisseur of theFrench situation, and as such vary ucofelto SIZE. Tboroforo, when he wont toSwitzerland ho made an agreument withsTErhj.F. that hc would make him privy to hisre-Llorta to the Ausunortiaos Amt. In spacialcases, in ubich it seemed certain that theywould not fall on very receptive zround inthe Auswaertiges Amt he would give thereports only to him. Such . more or less wasthe armament according to STEDZE, andSCHMIXNBERO bolievos that he oncementionod that he received both written andverbal rwoorts from SONIMHOL. Onc daySCHELLEKBERG hoard fram.LcationsratREICIM (or BEICHLE) in the AuswoortigosAmt that SOMENHOL was Bonding varyintoreatin^ reports from Switzorlond, fromvbcro good links might bc worked up withFranco, via govornment circles. Unfortunatolythou =ports were all pigcon-holod in thoAuswaertigns Amt, and it was said that nothing .could come of them. 0,e of the reasons forthis was possibly that it appeared from themthat in France, as in other foreign countries,further dovelopmenta in tho SS. orgaLisationwere being followed with groat interost,since) in its pivition of power the SS. michtono day oven dissolve the Party andattempt to make peace with the geatermpowers. SOECULENHERG informed STEIMLEof the position and asked him to getinto contact personally with REICHEL,whom ho know well and who might possibly ber,blu to elot this report for Amt VI; moreover,'3CHEILLENSERG hinted that ho wan verydiaplensod with SOIT.011HOL, and asked STETto toll him to come to Berlin, since howas particularly intorostod in thesequostions of high po:itica. SCHIELEMERGglso gave REICHEL, who was going toSwitzerland at that time with his tacit ---consent, the mission of ordoring SONNENHOLto Borlin. EEICHEL, who had an especiallygood contact with the Swiss EMbassy inBerlin and also knew leading Swissindustrialists, was in addition to endeavourto got into touch with English circle:,rince SOHELLENBERG hoped, by the time he hoc.established such contact, to have got sofar en to be able to offer n cessation ofhootilitios by Gorvany. Hu hoard no morefrom MICHEL, however, nor did bc have anyfurther contact with 30/21WH0L.

iscrsorrx,,umrs

22. TURKUL Prince.

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17. .

SCHELLENBERG last saw Prince =KUL aboutthe time the VLASSOV Committee was formed.Ho did so at the instigation of °METZ,the Abtailungschef of N11.0, who wasworking on the KL.',TT affair (see No.9 above),of which TURKUL was one of the chieffigures. The object was to thank himpersonally for all he had done, thusencouraging him to continue to work despitethe incronaingly difficult politicalposition, and to give him the opportunityhe desired of discusaing the VLASSOVproblem with SCHELLINBERG. The conforunco,at which TURKUL was accompaniod by hisLdjutent, was rather long and dealt indotail with the problem of Bolshevism.TURKUL anumorated the mistake° made offainstthe Ruaaiano, abovc all in tho Occupiedarena, and pointed out thc changes ininternal policy inauTuratcd by STALIN, 1.0.the trend towards nationalism and theencouragement of rolicion. VLIASSOV, homaintained, had not followod thosedovelopmonts within Russia but, like thoRusaian P.O.W's in Germany, had rcmainodtrao to the Bolahovistic crood of 1941.To this hc convincin-ay traced back funda-mental mistakos in the manifesto whichVUSSOV had proclaimed in Prnguo, viz.the failure to mention the Church questionand the use of the phrase 'The Russianpeoples' instead of 'Russia': oring to thosedefocta the VL4SSOV movement no longer hadany influence in Russia, and thus did notfulfil the purpose for which it had Ipeenformed. HS added that it was notnecessary to start such a large movementand give VLASSOV concessions in domestic1politics (independent tribunals), whichwere not without danger, merely toinfluence the Russian P.O.W's in Germany.

TURKUL asked SCE:2=MM to submit hisviers to the richt quarters and to try toarrane for him to be included in thejoint action with a position of responsi-bility, proforably that of an indopendontdivisional General with a goat on and avoice in the Committoo. Ho furthersugacstod that the old proved Whito Russianofficers, rho wore firhting . in 010ood forma-tion in the Balkans, should be disbanded andrancod slorwsido the new divisions to beformed as security clementa. In partsthcso ideas seemed sound to SCHELENEMIGwho promis,ld him full support and inaddition told bim that ho would bespecially rrateful if ho would koop himposted concerning his. viers on theVLASSOV affair;

P:a2SONALITra - contd.

18.

PELSORAL/TEJS contd.

22. TIMM. Princo (contd.)

23. TASSIGNY„ GonnaDE LATTRE DE

TIMM fully understood whnt he monnt bythat. SCHELLEEZERG informcd Obsrwuf.BERGNR of his diacusoion, and thelattor promised to consider allaopocts in dotail with hio collonsuos.TURKUL oxproaaod his oiiinions toVILASSCV, both in ..arlin and in Prnsuo,with comploto franknaca, but thoywore untble to rrrivc it any real compro-mica betscon their divorsont views.

During the lost months of the warTUMUL lived oithor in Salzburg itselfor in the neighbourhood, in quartorsprocured for him by NILO. Attar somaconsiderable time had clapsedSCW.Z127113ERG recoived n letter fromhim in which hc naked for permission toform a division with all the Russianswho had proved themaelves loyal to him,in order to fight BolahoViom (whichwax appnrontly.not yet dond!) to thebittor and. samaalmoum instructodDEUTZ to reply with r nolitc gesture,and never heard nnythina further from him.

In February, 1945, an SS-Oborgruppon-fuehror wi,o hod a commtnd on theUpper nine front (posaibly ROSSER)sont'a couricr with n.diapatch toEL.I.C.ZI, stating that two or throe SS.men had had contact with none Frenchpolitical reprocontativea who hadauggoatod that discuscion: could br:arranged with Genera1 . 4".: =IRE DE IASSIMYwith a vim to the formntion of n Wanton)bloc. IMILIZi for rod this dospntch toSUBIUlailiERG for =anent nnd action.Tha lnttcr found out that the GS. men -concorned cart in fact mombera of anSD Dienststollo nenr Learn:lob on thoSouthWectorn part of the front and.foraardod the dospatch to STEMLS with onancry, covorin:; note pointin out thatit wno typical of the disorgnniantionof ,trat VI in tho South thnt ouchdcapatchos should roach the Amtschef bysuch indirect route. Be received noanswer from STELLE.

SCILMLiNEIRG romombore htvin:: heardtba Gencrni's name mentioned in thewinter of 1944 co connoCted with =NOsimilar allefrad puncc nogotiations.BICKLIZ was in chnrlo of the allemodliaison nt this time.

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