From 1945 until Moreaber 1949, SUMO? Waft a momb .,!r end latoretary the ro (VelionAd doOTOMbhangigge r. - Unt-a Iadopend-toe) in Salzbarg. Wreaber 1949, SUBJECT re 13.L fvlinrty Dec4'0111 wa3 reavdqd as a neo-Nazi ,yegan.f.catAlnlformulate prtlextsaiw, ?Ians to win the support of tie

•ad it was known ti maintain contact with the loacl TP0e. UNAresigning, SUBJECT was ac:upsil of selling oat to ho other paitiOil faetinas. He remained unemployed from ItrIvember 1949 to April

at whleh time SUBZCT decided to visit Vienna with the hope'finding d position c!mparable to his abilWes. In Vienne. -ACT WAS re:errid hv the Auatrian Labor C:fice • to the Ghessioel

GLAVIZSTOFF, a USIA enterpriee in St Neaten, Lower Legtriei'applying'Iror this position, SUBJECT wan Wormed that thehad bean Pilled. CA the saws day: SUBJECT -flatted tit'

pored information library located in the oity. An unknown psrun.sugared SUBJECT in a flOnTerStitiJA referred his N) lobtuneh

ISSCLA.C., an , Austrianteanner, and local ttirentur of Austrfon-let osu1tum4. affairs. who was prettiest in the rc,ou at thr . saw !Iv,-

SWEAK reportedly had boon looking for an assistaw..... 313PJVTvitabed LFBISSCEAL and inquired about thin position. 1.',11oveinfk.

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1;12_ &loot:Lae stained Maims; rapid spsaker.Identity 4:Ailments: Austrian Paesport Vo. A III P-6800/49.

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During the holidaY eiaeon, 1-4 :Una 1950, LEBSUBJECT to . qcoompany bin on a pleasure trip to VVienna, LEBISSONAK , tobt J1B3ECT to the llaria • y .tura) where ha introduced SUBJECT to t • _ /SIG. cgs:offieer, (about 35, 5, 7",.165 lbe.; b ao hair

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7Abuild; drives blue Skoda), who wee referred to,., cultural offi-cer. LEBISMAK tcad SUBJECT to oonthet Mt: N, should any dif-ficulties be encountered in presenting the Pu hkin exhibition inthe towns SurrOunding met p.polten Vienna. JECT was then takento the Palate Coburg, a Ptviet social club in Vienna, where he wasintroduced to the ftliu ng persenS:

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107LTURWELLENCYDWIRTSCHAFTLI BEEISSUNCEN ZWISCHEN osyrNR-RETCH.UND USSR (Assoolatioe to the Cultivation of Cultural andloonomic Relations Between • Aus ria and the USSR) with head tirein Palate Coburg,' Vienna I,, rstatte 1. Other collect ref •this organisation named by CHAK were frofeaserAtee' Vienna, and Prof Tulln'Realgymna WO, -1;JECwas assigned •eponsi il t 'of visiting the Bergemetstdra ofall the towns in Lower Austria and making the neoessary arrange-ments for the presentation of an A. S. Pushkin Exhibition (Works •of the noted Soviet poet) in every.large school. For this servioo,SITSAMT received 50 Ochillinge a day whieh included traveling ex-penses:

Luring 1141 follecriligravers, LEBISSCEM acloompanieC SUBJECTwe that he wotid be properly oriented in hie now duties. On 10May 19504 upon pontatting the Bezirkhauptmann (town administrator)in Krems*, Lower Austria, they were informed that the eXhibition wasa Communist propaganda feature and that it would net be displayedIn the soheels st Kress. LEBISSCHAK, accompanied by SUBJECT, there-upon proceeded to the leoal Soviet Kommandatura. Open presenting •his identifieation cardoinieh SUBJECT did not see, LEBISSCBAK wastreated with special oenrtely by the Soviet official, and his pro-blem was quietly aottled when tne Soviet Eommandatura called theBetirkshauptmann and erdered'him to plea, the exhibition on display.

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Geo film produe•r, Vionns IX, Vullnargasse35/6, a yeas of his mother); earrently residing 11Berlin-Babeleberg,;whers he is'asso6iated with DrFA orwrsoff FILMAKTIONGNSILLSOWT,.Gersan film orgapisatiCh), which is Soviet- •sponsored; proalmint cultural advisor to the SID and member of theIPOe Central C tee..

Frag II; Waelarshe 43, Tel.-29051, CssehNewer.e r ee; leans address, SiMprOtrasile 6, Tel. R-21226.

In Maly 1550, SUNLICT was visatlag his 'other in Selsburg,and by °Wee met Lt. Sergi, DOWNIN, dressed in oivilian olothes.DOMINI/twat) very hospitable sad anterteimed SOBJECT ins Local cafe.On ,15 January 1551, SWIM= was sent to Ilesterneuburgeto put qntbe abovverentioned exbibitioa, but was denied permission by Sohn-rat P. SIMI, at Langstogershhule 25. 3811:NCT telephoned Mengat the Beilaria, but was referred to the Mommaadature in 'looter-neubutg, *ere Lt. DONIMIN had recently bees Installed as KOmmande..tura Officer. 'After belag,inforsad of this inOident, mom imr.malattlY celled SIAM and ordered him to airplay the exhibition.That evening SUB=CT was invitee sera guest of MINIM to visit theSoviet social ciub, Palate Coburg. DOMTNIN drank heavily until latein.the evening when he appeared to be quite intexicated. In aconversation with 8GBUCT over the Noreen War, DIMtUfilfpcinted outthe strength of the North .toreaa fordes in their most refloat offen-sive against the Vatted Nations forces. When SITBAMT doubted DON- •INTNt s intiriate knowledge of the strength of these Communist forces,DOMINI); became infuriated and in • redden fit uf rage threw hisglass against the well and ate d, "Why abouldn iknow! Pmthe NCTD." Immediately there* t, two officers sitting near bypicked up DOIWININ and carried T out of the room. Foilleihe thisseine, another patron, Gerhard DT, NUenehen, Thiersohstrasse,an announcer for the Bay, BO • unk (Bavarian radio station)came over to MINOT sad stated that DOMININ was remembered as amember of the Soviet Repatriation Mission, at Daohau, Germany, from1946 tu 1548. On the next day DOMTNIN called SUBJSCT and inquiredif he (DUMP) had maid anythiag aausuel the night before. Mi.JUT assured DOMININ that he ooald not mall very much r,f their

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eonversstioh, Oillo8 he himself was also somewhat inebriated. ThisMAP seemed to relieve DOVIRINt s anxiety.

•On 9 ?ebruaxy 1951, SUBJECT reported to LEPISSCHAK, and re-

marked about DOLZNIN t s excessive drinking.. LEBISSCHAN becamesomewhat ooneerned and inquired -it DOVININ, while inebriated, had.discussed his work with SMUT. Upon receiving a negative reply;LEBISSCHAK severely •ritieized mom for hie exoeseive drinking,and . statad that in view of hisimpertant position and that,bcthDOWN= and he were "brothers" (Austrian idimalehioh indicatesmembership or participation in the same orgadization), he felt verymush sonserned'about him. .SUBACT was then invited to have lunch*st.LEBISSCEAK t e beau While they wore sitting in the living rooma Soviet •ffieer tnn), who was reoognized as the Kommsndature *M-oor at Krems, eame into the house and left a large loose-list note,.book with usissem before departing. .LEBTSSCBAK.laid the note.;book . on a table and went into the kW:then for a few momenta. SUB-JECT, being somewhat ourleus,'quiokly scanned the contents and notedthat it contained pentium' reports from the Communist Party itSalzburg, as well as other towns in the Soviet Zone of Adstria. Italso inaluded a hotel situation report from the KraMs Tomaandatura.SUBJECT .was unable to learn acreabout the oontents of the notebookbowies* LEBIASIMAK returned suddenly from the kitohen add carriedthe notmbook away. In view of previous events, SUBJECT mime to theeonclutiom . that LEBISSCHAEls probably en important. Soviet intelli-gence agent who correlates reports of other Soviet intelligenceagents operating in the SoViet'Zone of Austria.

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;# r •: .own• ago • ro% st. •Plato of bi th: UkraineNationality; UkrainianCitizenship: AustrianOccupation: angnage teaeherMarital statue: Married to Ella nee DROIDIER, Ccrman national,

at Lemberg, PolandChildren: Girl (au); age 11; boy (nu), age 8Desoription: Height, 5 , 8"; weight, 176 lbs; madiun build;

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LEBTSSCBAK was reportedly.' member-of the Soviet Army. In1939 While stationed in Lemberg, lolend, he was token prisoner bythe Gorman Army. After being interned for an unknown period,1.2BISSCHAK was released to join Cameral VLASSOV1s.Army" esan interpreter. In 1943 he was arrested by the Gastepo,ite auS4peeted him of working for the Sovietpartisons. Be was imprisons?:by the Gestapo at the Aleranderpletz, Berlin, and later sent toconcentration oamp in Melnik, CSR; At the and of World War ft.LEBISSCBAK went to St. Poolten es en Austrian citizen and aaetudethie present position with the Soviets in the fall or 1946.

In the pourse of his assooiation with LEBISSCIAK, SUB:ECTnoted in LOISSCBAK's office the nfmea and bachgrOend data of thefollowing persons. It mils net-ascertained whether LEBISSCBAE ao-tually.maintainsd cosiest with or merely. reoorded leAieround dataon these persons. IMMOWS.BOTt; SUBJBCT himself c_ntributedsome of the beekgX date which he bid at:stimulated as a resultof former sonnest ,.ns with the VDU).

AK* o. ea,Frit A% 3 • height, 17$ elm; weight, unknown;

slam Ar ir; knife seer on right side of -nook;rdivoro dresides woman air years Older them himself, in

Innsbru k, Euelleretrassi 20, Tel. 711,5; former artillery major•in the tb Volke.,Grenedier Division, German Army. Followingthe war CIE5 was al:signed by the Freneb Any to a unit engaged itdeactivating land minor,. Through 'this employment he case into con-tact with the French Deullema Weals (intelligenee). Be is current-ly employed es a theuffeur for. the,French Forces in Innsbruck.(AGENT'S NOTE: SACHs is reportedlt aequainted with FRANK, DOLOR-

WING, EYCK, B7TSCHAAU and LABOOSENi named in this report).

BOLSCHWING (fnu), elles GOILER, GOMA, 40; slender build; blondhair; currently registered under the none GOHLA in Gmunden, Austria;',rumor SS lieutenant c .A.onel in the SD (Sicherheit Dienst) onBimmler's staffvfrequently seen visiting the Villa "Mittei" inPlomberg/Mondase, Salzkammer Out (residence of Madame (MI) JANBTTE,French nations/ %du resides most of the time in Faris). Be was knownto have remarked to fripuds that he wee employed by CIO Gmunden from1945.47, end that from 1948-49, he was acquainted wish SiA (feu)

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STIERNBIRG. who resided at the Hotel Bristol, Salzburg.

DITSCBAN Vol), 42, bueinessaan, resides in lansbruok. Bewas one of the original organizers and leaders at bbo WT (Leagueof Independents); is reportedly aequainted with many Preach Armypersonnel oho patronize the Cafe Francais, adjacent to the Inns-brook !modes Theater. (AIM'S NOTE: BITSOBANU is reportedlyacquaiaked with sAcBS, FRA)K,. BOLSCBMING, WINKLER and BLBICBSTEINER.

BAUM= Vera, 50; height, 170 oft; weight, 130; grep,brown hair;resides DP oamp Parsch/Salsburg, Ceishergsbrasse Barracks 6. She11111 . stite Russian emigrant who has resided in JUgoalavia from 1918-1941, at whish time Obe moved to Austria.. She had resided in Salz-burg sines 1945; Two of her eons are reportedly residing in Argon..tins, BAUMANN, a known blaek market operator, is believed to be amember of the Communist Party.., In January /951, she stated thatunknown thieves had otolea approximately 10,000 sehillings from herbarraeks. 1V.U3ANN maintains .contacts with many girls who are so-ouainted with Us Army personnel ln.the Saisburg area, .Sbe has beenknown to travel to Trieste Italy and St. lobaniPongau, Land Selz-burg, where oho olalas to heve.some 24g oslavian friends.. .

FRANK NW Maria, 50; height, 180 ma; slender build, journa-list; resides at Bechteee/Eutatein (US■Fronoh zonal border). From1930=3E, •np/ored as a journalist for Asnooiated Press in China.Frog 193E-45, be was employed by the Universal rila ACTION =SILL-SCBAFT (German Movie Company). /a 1945, PRANK WAS appointed pressminister f7: Tyrol, by the !relic* Military Government; In 1946, heattempted to entire chemléals such as anilin, indigo, butanin andkarosin, from the former IG FAR Trust in Germany for sale to hisfriends in South America. Although apprehended by the /Preach, hewas eventually cleared of all charges by US Military Government offi-cials in %wish. FRANK has written over yo books on China, SouthSeas, etc. In 1947, ender an neeilmed name, he wrote many articlesabout his travels in various German, French and Italian newspapers.Be is supposedly the owner of a sugar plantation t* Cuba..

?RITZ ilnu), 27-20; height 173-174 me; weight, 170-180 lba;black graying.hair; excellent piano player; •residenee believed tobe St. Poelten, Austria. (*played by the Coatral Direktion of Aus-trian Railways. FRITZ is a friend . of LIBISSCRAVe sister-in-law,(fu) DROMMBR.

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• LAM (fns), General, formerly of the (Wrenn Abwohr Dienst,who served as an assistant to Adairal KAHARIS. 4 was the sourceof several articles in the book "Oeheime Front", by Walter BAGELIn 1947-48, LAROUSWW resided in lyfol. In 1950 he WAS reportedlyseen in Munich.

WINKLER (feu) Dr., 45; height, 175-178 cm . heavy build; blaokbsir; excellently dressed; !mildews at Sehlutbiling/Styrie and atMarkus/Salzburg Sittizuestresse 17-19. Reported to be on officialof the German Aiwehr at Belgrade daring World War II. WIVELIN wasComber of the Gerson resistance group which attempted to assasci.nate Hitler on 20 July 1944. Shortly thereafter, he escaped toSwitzerland with the help of SS Major (mu) HOITTL. Is Zurich, hemet Allen Foster Daum ansl together they cm-authored a book en-titled Meier Stand In Deatechland w. Following the WU he .movedto Weber& Later he Cooperated with SO%AlaNDORY in writing thebook "Offiofers Oegen .titler". Being a friend of State SeoretaryFerdinand GRAF (04/7); he was sent to London in 1946, to assist instabilizing the Austrian sahilling. WINKLER ha g been used by theOM as am indeponlemt analyst of Austrian politleol and economicaffairs. In this capacity he ham aoquired an intimate knowledgeof the seehanles of government and its °Motels. He is mortullyacquainted witn suoh Oermau personalities as (tau) ERHARD, Ministerof Economic's; and Franz BL1JECNEE6 Vice Chancellor and INF Minister.VT OW one of the early orgahisers of the my, but left thePart fter be Abalii. rt ogre's with its principles.

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Rh land; height, 160 ka. wolekt. 60 kg; black hair, abort-arrppea;ao oss; *errantly residing in Berlin, Nutted to Ludwig ERRODER,until 1937 at which time she dlenroed him. /REUBEN waareportedlyacquainted with Lenin and became one of the fire Communists inGereanr. Later he boom an adherent of the SWAP. The coupleword personal friends of`ronstaatin BURL, RAD Fuehrer, and ?aldervon SCBTRAOR, 117 Fushrer, end Stitt Halter of Vienna. ' The latterassisted EYCK in obtaining a position as an actress in the Visa,*•Burg Theater. In 1939 she married (MO REIM, who was an intim-ate friend of Professor Robert' BLZICRSTEINER, s Comnnnist. Thioughthis asecoiation, star and BEIOBL became Communiat iympathizers.While in Vienna and until BEICBL's death in October 1945. MK re-aides at Vienna 7, Schulhof 4/II, ofo MESMER. Following his death,ITOK returned to her mother's home in Ovetzio/Vorelberg. There she

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met HALLER (fun:, reportedly the underground chief of the Commu■nist Party at Voralberg, atO maintained liaison between the isParty of Labor (Swiss Commenist Party ) and the Austrian CentralCommitte•). Together Ilith;VALLIR ike founded the Associatioa ofCultural and Zeonomio relations between Austria and Soviet Rnasiain Torai)ers. In 1948, he become the oommon-law mite of RichardVITCELBR, 'tags manager of the,Liner Landes Theater. From 1947 to1949, they resided at Salzburg, BuemeIstresse 2, ofis ProfessorSTROMMIDIR, after which EYCK returned to Vienna and lertioi-pated in the MOVI4 "Rut aus den Aother", by G. C. ILABBIk producedby Vienne Company AU ROSTAUTOIL (Soviet controlled). In 1950he returned to Innabruek Landes Theater. tACBVT'S )OTE: EYCK is

reportedip,eeguainted with FRAPT, SAWS, UATTJTA, and is believedto have had sexual relations with istragsmnort.PILE CMS:

Pilei or this 9ab.DotAchment oniAttia SOI-Y-11599, dated 5May .1950, - Subjeot. "KAUume Vehard - Suspected mi g Ageit, AllegedContact with ftliue gAAB", which disclosed that aformer funotiJnary of the Td0 in Salzburg, was suttint2gia-tion tn Richard BAUD= and OeTP Wirtsohattsbund oandidate Dr. LujoTOMIC. NITSME also maintained ofiatact with lizna 0OSTBNSCSN1K, aSaltintrg merchant from them he is aziessal y receiving money, and Dr.Willfried BRAUBB/S, former State secretary (SAlzburg, of the OeTPand seern tary to ablius RAAB: (B-3)

• Tiled of this Sub-Detaahoent contain numinous references toProfessor Robert BLEICHSTRINBR, Dr. Hump HUHIRT, and Dr. Victor •MATEJICA, Stadtzat (be1levdd tO be identical to the Dr. Theo MAMMA,Staderatementioned in this report), as being On the Genera/ Secre-tariat staff of the Society to the PrometIon of Cultural and Boon-omis Relations with the USSR. Additional referenceclist Dr. HugeSMUT, Dr. Tinter MAWRA and Profnaer Robert BLETCESTIINBIR assuspected Soviet agents.

•00I-Y-871 , dated 25 lehruery 1.948, Subject: "Possible Russian

Agent Visiting Vienna", disclosed that a :ohan LEBISCHTSCHAK, born14 Aebreary 1909 in Ermine. Russia, a teacher of the Russian Lan&guage at St. Foeiten, possessing an Austrian identification oard,No. 2541 has been tnomm to remain overnight at the ChristlioheHospiz, Vienna VflI, Iangegasse 11, during his frequent visits to

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Vienne. The tree:Juror ierband ChristliciAr Hospir. whithawns the bearding house, W48 Kidnapped by the Rulsians on 18September 1947. In-view Jf the anti-of-the-way location o: thisottablishment . the madage y thereof sstee lEBISTiTSCHAE how ho hadfound the rno;ing hedic. LEBISCHTSCHAE stated that his brother.'in-lat. a medical doctor residing at Vienna langegassa 11,had recommended the above quarters. A cheek at this address failedto disclose any suet. person as LEBISGHTSCBAK had named. (AGENT'SNOTE: It La belieyed that /EBISSCHAX and LEBIS70::.10HAIC are identi-cal!. (to evaluation'

7-MOTe-2153, dated )3u1y 1947. Subject: "Coneealed Gold,Jewelry, ?,reign Exenenv and Weapons believed to be Looated inSalzkammergut in Zeller See/Land Salzburg" in which it was die-n haosed tt a Dr. Elfriede HOETTL, nee ZELiIHGER, born 11 April •1912, wife of Dr. Wilhelm HOETTL, former S3 Oberstarmbannfuhrerin the RSHA-Amt VT.Naehriehtendienst im Assland (Intelligence Ser-vice Abfigad). interned in 'Ale Dachau Internment Camp, had tnowledgeof the f subject matter in May 19454 'Male residing atAlt Aussee N. 5 ,_Unher Autrl (No evaluation!

•V..3or-345s vuucce 47, :.0ebject: "Austrian Intelli-.(

ginee 'Groap, H Innsbruck, Anstria% in which it was disclosed thata Volf BITSC ST residing at Erzherzog 4:agenearasse 17. Iansbrock,Tyrol, was directing an Austrian Inte•ligenoe grcap which maiatainedeoataet wiJ arl Gruber, Austrian Yereign Minister. BITSCHNAU •also 'lathed • be in contaet wit* a US inte4igenee agenoy in Salz-burg.

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35,7, dateddated 11 . 3Une 1946, btbjeat: "VAN MI( Tomi", Ln which itwas disclosed that VAN EY.X, 3t 4 occupation, sefeas at the Berlin'Stadttheatar, Vienna Barg Theater raid the Innsbruck L..ndea Theater,wte the foundf+r of the "Asaosiati.-d for the Economic add :u1',ura1Relat).oas with the Soviet Union", in Tytol and Varalbarg. EvOT wosalso knowo. 4. n hoacrablc member •f he KFee Central Comnaitteeand claimed to be aequainted with Natianalrat (E2ust) FISGHER, Chair-man the Y?Qe. She reportedly married to Irafessor Dr. RobertBLFiCHSTEtNLR, Diretter or the ioalkerkunde Luse= in Vienna. . en/ June 1946, while in en ineozLeated condlti n, she was rep..rCed tc -have stated that she dime t- lansbruck f•a• the following reasons:(I) to inefease the setivitlei, of the Gommunist fuoetiouries in

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the Western Zone of Austria; %21 imprrve and maintain liaisonbetween the Communist Party in Wrthern Italy and the KPOe inthe Western Zone cf Austria; (31 t ," observe the activities of an .Unknown former German Abwehr officer who was a confirmed ant:-Communist and was known to be employed in en important positionwith the French Intelligence in Tyrol, Austria,

• S-M010-6790. dated 10 .March 1950, Subject: "Target List,Lead Salzburg, January 195f", in which it was disclosed theAnton,. Peter VAN EYCK, born 23 October 1910, residenoe Salzburg,Hammelstrasit1, was . a low-level Communist espl ynagc agent

.r„ y von Lyck ;$ oP A4 Ton.. 0 11`;ere,'T-S01-4754, dated 8 February 1949, Subject: "-tr. Kari von--%

WINKLER , Control Agent, Project Fort Worth", ii which it-was dis-olosed that Mina was a friend of Dr, Wolfrm BITSTMAU, t self-admitted Frenoh intelligence agent who was at the same time em-ployed by an unnamed US intelligence agency in Frankfurt. It wasalec revealed that the trench Intelligenee in Innsbruck were awarethat a Or. Wilhelm HOETTL was working for a US intelligence rgenl-wation in . Upper Austria - (50)

•V-801-71 .10, dated 12 August 1949. Subject: "Agents of Bureau

of Documentation - Offices in InnsbruCs, Land Wrol", in whict itwas diecloaed that-an (Cnu) skaffa, German national, former majorif, Lilo 0.zrmen Army. is in the employ of Subject organization as aout-out fcr an indigenous net, ABSbC Alen travels to Salzburg aua French press agent' in a oar bearing U9 "0" license platen.•

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840TC-75471, dated 16 September :,949, Subject: "PrQp-eedAnti-V6U Press Campaign", in which it was disclosed that a i)r.Wilhelm HOETTL y s activities rm. MG were known to the Soviet Ele-ment.

V-MOIC4392, dated 17 November 1949, Subject: "STRAWIL Rai-mund" ., which lists a Laic!. General Erwin LAROUSYN, Smefeld, Land •Tyrol, former chief of the German Counter Intelligence, Se,:tion II,as being in contact with the French Intelligence in the Tyrol area.

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