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To extract inforastion of CI value from refugees eseaping -from Russian-occupied couAtrics: composition, trcads.andactivities of tac co.inunist parties ia tnese countriesvlocationand identification of cot:au:action caaps in Russie.and Russian-dominated countries; identification of JOD deserters or .:AGE1deserters; identifization of .6VD agents a coaauaist agentssent aaongst the rifugces;'identificstioa cad'el,laination of •Nazi elezents, infiltrating anongst the refugees to escape : • Ispunishaent from the authoxpics of their'respective countries.

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' a. Tgrascertain and locate the agsats of the Jewish• Ageacy in Austria who run both tho emigration of Jews from

• Russian-dominated countries and a highly :efficient intellioeaceservice into those countries; to ascertain and spot- those • ,

; -• persons who snuggle Jews out of those countries for-nigh suns '•of aoaey and who, 'being in contact with ULVArofflails, alsosmuggle,war criainala and agents into the Aflied-occupiedzOnes, to earl: (Atha in- ,Austria or in Pa/celiac.

• •b. To- locate those persona .ithin official organizations,

aach.es the Hungarian Red Cross, the Austrian Red Cross, theItalian Red Cross, 'some so-called repatriation coaaittecs with .maofficinl or se4i-official status, the UaRRA and the (Lublin)Polish rcOetriation couittees, who provide false papers andidentification cards to those-smag4.4ers and to thc sauggiedfa the furtherance of this traffic; to-taae all aseaures of .security safeGuarli to eliminate or. neutralize such traffic waenit.becoass a-cangct to the . accutity of the Allied-occupiedzones Or to its establisaments and .units,

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C. ThS hO-CAL/j...D 3..IhH U.414.1di1OU.Jb E—ZuhATIJJ moviasaT

1. * ()sacral Akkat..: of V4ri$114. recently aads a statoacIt tothe press about a vast undurigoUnd Organization which isconstantly pouring Jewish rofugets into Allicd-occupied zones.of Ocranny and Austlia end then sands thca eithcr to thoUnited Stotts or to Palestina, legally or illcgally. •

• 2. T.d : Undcratand the project SY..;PAGUY, it is deemednecessary to drowt brief history of tbis aoveacnt and toexactly describe what happens in Austria. The problca asspecified by Gcncral Loran iscovcrsiaplificd and does notplace it in its exact liz;ht, nor does it tozt cere of itstzacttims or untccedcatO.

-3.- The exodus of Jews froa Ruisian-occupicd countries is. an crasit replica of thc vest leuel or illogcl cai4ration aove-

. aant which buoan at the asconsion ofAuo Aati icaty in Uoranny-around 1932.,4undreds of thousunds of Juus fled Lear-may withthe gid of Jewish con.nuaitics of countries ack,hboring ueracny,

• (holland, Lk.a4crx, AleCca, Jorway, aclbiva, Yraucu, owitzerluad,Czechoslovu.d.c, etc.), to find Lucir wai to say cnuAtry inBuropo or into Celestine: ..bon .‘rurAany coapletclif closed its

• borders, this smuggling had to hocoae clandostinc. Aighofficials, .offioielly or.unoffioiellk, were paid largo suns tofacilitate the caiti,:etion of J ous; tue Gestupo Quit b 11.L1 busi-ness out Of it hcfuscOs comAitteccucre act up 12 the acifofboring countries to helpthe Iowa in their transit throughthc free countries Lad to faoilitetc their caibnation to Aacrichor to Palcatitc. These refugees coaaittocs .cre finuaccd titherby colIcotions Cad contributions froa their •uabore or rich

...iJews in free countries. ..hon the finances of Lhasa ooanittccs,worc-not safficiont,..thc dcfioits were aadc-up by the AacricanJoint Distribution Conaittcc, through its.roprcaentetivos in

. these various countries.. The Aaerloscr Joint Distribution'Cosaittcc also finclood, supervidcd and arraagcd for transportand sottleacnt of thc persuoutcd Jaws either in Palcatineor in. the United States.

4. As the war drew on and border restrictions bioceno marsand more strincont, the Political Section of the Jewish. Agenclounder SaRTOK, oreanizad a socOial (motion whose duties it wasto contact the Joeish communities in Ocraan-ocau2icd countries.

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countrics and Smuggled "Icuish" intelligenot out of thesecountries. Beedquertcra of thicaoction'uers established inSuitzsrlund (Bcrac and Eurion) cad in Tumor (Istcnbul).(Vide GkOSS-14.-I1jT cesc end interrogation this'casc-officerof Erich 4..f1jE1,, llice,Sheliech kid). (LT1.207). The variousBritish Idtclik.encc dtrvicca frecly used *he emissaries ofthis section for pcnetretion intelligence idd DA purposes.

(The repreacntttives of the AIM toted as unison uith theailed Intclligenct Services end eventually financed this-courior-cal-intclligenct scrvicc. • .

. 5. ,This. Pert of the actions of the -SI" section of the:crash .5.gcnoy is sufficicntly :moue to codpetcnt authoritict,Out it heti bccn dccmcd ecceseary to rcpcct it here so as toshow the connection it tht present cmigr.tion movement 7ndthe present project.

• • ,PILEStaT JIs;JSti UNtERGEOUND MOVE.41.aT I "USTRIA

• 1. Tht present Laia. ...tion "unacrground 4 movemeet is simply ,.e, confinuction of the onc. uhich provided thu Allied-IetelligenceServices and principolly the Jeuish Agcmcy Uith velualeintclligence during this .ar.

. 2. The. prceZet . cmigrItion etlAted Officielly es e Jewishectioi to help those Jcue uho-htd escaped the tortures of thononcentrLtion and eitermin-tion comps, to feud dad clothe themand to further their emigration either to tee United btetcs or .to Pnlestine,,1Cgelly or illegally. These "transit coops-

• foi.formur concentration camp inmates and politieel prisoners",established in the US Zone cre, and ere still, loautad in:.lauthaupen, Binder.michl, near Linz, Bedgaatoin;;.ele Freilassing,Bavaria, cad are helped by local Jtsieh committees, Lhe Whist:end (later) bi the A;LC represenfetives, uho had arrived in .

• the zeantime. •

3. BlOwly a roud wt5 ust.:blished'through uhich-these-persecuted .1o.s'Mare to 'find their way to Yalcstine, or, if not,to the 4nited- States. Those uonting to go to Palestine weredirected to Italy, ovcr.the Frenah-oocupicd zone of Auatriaand the -Brenner Poss. The various Red Cross orenizationshelped to further this emigration. L410e thc refugees . were inItaly a-boat service was arranged from Genoa to transport theicfugces to Orton, where thcy would uveatually . find theirway into Palestine.

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occupicd • by tho Rusalams, and 0 ditions beginning to Duca=wo:sc for the Jaws ;11 &c:cral,JtAo Jcwish Agonoy of Palcstine

.-beban taking up the or .bicA it had boon doing during the war- against.Gcrmany. Tho stme - an is bei used. This time tho •

krillhcadquartcrs of tho orgadi tioa is i tu tmna, at the aparent

,. Bro. 6, Frankhgcsse, No. 2 Vienna . Vet head agent for the -Jcwisb.- caoy in Auatri . is thc Palotiaian knowaeorc unnoa

,.$:111-1111co . .PIER, ortr.analaa: as Ac is shown iAthe

,pr:Ag AO a nis operational elaze, assirtr'to be

born iienna o 7ctruar 1921„of (fnu) PIER and (fau)'ZZNIZER. a z. 7• a. His private address is -Erckndlgassc,'1a, Vita= clephone A-13042. nelhas an

. Luatrien'identity cord ';:a. D 136878/4C, given bin. by tho Vicnna-' Police Proadium on 19 arch 1946.. hc claims to be Un of

-.er.the'"Eatzofch4 nows it?which Ac has thc-pc est_ an prose car• no. , , given him in-!1'c.1-Aviv on 18 paruery 1946 and expiring on 18 August 1946.Ho alsoirte+ne-4te--trc--=t\gro.z.o.vondcht for the "Palcor" _(Palcatinia Tcic. rap o : Accacyj for Auctrfeit.alsg, und the41 o zuropcan countries: ho-rz Q-LOO orifT111-fratcreditddwith thc locul Joint Dirtributioa4o.;,...itteC Ls a staff mombes,/!Ho is not nacrodited -to the A'ublio Rolatioos )fficer, VicnaaArco Ca.wand of USPA. 1,6 travois sodetlmos on orders providod

LA by ULFA through thr. ...:DC./hc.ia accreditcd to the BritishPublic Rclatioas Orfic.,:, BT., tedausc "he troaamits newspaper-itcms end reports to'Lcadon and Palostinc://.. .

, •.. 3. Officially PIER is Mac toeolloot itims of Scuibh

'interest for Lis newspaer caploycr, principally iteas onatrocities pc,ainst :c.1.1 during the war end after. This he'does through interrogation of Jewish rifugoes coaing fromthe differcnt.countrics, inwhich Ac is intcrestcd. AgtuallyAc runs a highly efficient intelli6enoe act,. through, eouriursinto Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Uungory and Polaad. no is alsoruining another net which tracks down acranas cithur freo'orin captivity in the Allied .-ocioupicd zones of Gsraday orAustria, who arc suspected 'or provento.havc been oamaittingitrooltics against :Tows during the war. he then delivers theproofs to the official authorities for punishacat through theWar Crime.. Investigaticas courts. Hu-and his agents alsotrack down any QIU40 or docuacnts which night be of any valueto the4cwish Agcaoy. For inetanoe, his.informants havingheard that a ocrtain'nunber . of papers belonging to the 'OlandMufti had been captured in Badgastcin, hc made every effort tosecure thcal or to photo&raph them so as to bring a csso against:the Grand Mufti, who is living in compdrative 'comfort near Paris. .

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. having -boon captured In Vicnat by the Russians, ho is dow -negotiating with the Russians to acOure them or phi:4°8mb them.

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6. In eddition to tacit intelligence dtitics.mentioned above.,PIER and his mon are running 'and coordlaLting the emigration ofJews from Rmaania, CzechosAruAia, aun i,4y-and Poland (Seefollowing parasrephs).

.E X.:10RATION OF AUUratsoii. or TnE JEuISm AGCY-

-The present emigration movemcnt of JeUs fro. Rumania'•: Agway, CzccLoalovazia . aad eolLnd is one which is unofficiall*,tols.ratcd by the comaandors of the United Status Forges in- -ustrie end by 0-5 of the sumo ncadeuartors.imIt is -financed.or'provldcd with other material help by the A.urican Joint

. Distribution Coamittee, throughits chief American repraseeta-. tivi, : A"aa, in Vicnaa, or its Iota Lacricchreprescntstive

in SulzburgOS.Dac. Both titose offices act . in'llaison with .List DP Scotion 'Vienna Arai Command or USE,. end with UNRRAauthorities, who have representatives La the various JewishDP compel in to Amcrican,lone of Austria. (6oce bolow).

2. Althoughthc official organitcrs 'are tha AJIC peaplc,it.is actually PIER and his mon who coordinate the entiremovement. PIER ascribes the ease with-which the-:systam worksto thahomplcte disorganization of.border controls at thevarious frontiers .. k hasty Picture of thc.cmigrationprocedure follows:

•.111.-711crs arc two kinds of Jews.who want to.cmigraio. .

: The young once, who belong to a Zionist organization in santBelian country and who have been trained for emigration and .

. ...settlomcnt-in Palestina by doing agricultural training in- "soma ferns in their country of origin. lawn they era reedy to .

leave, their local commfttees contact PIsh i s Mon in their- particular country.who arrange for transportation. Groups •

are for.led of about tWcaty or thirty under their own leaaers,with whom they will go to Pcicstinc. .4cryt-licss I. SOQG skaos "--.available in the.special Jcwish transit ()cap in Vienna, located A

et 'the. primary . school in the Alscreachcr btrasse Vi6PZU IX,the "traasport leaders", .who ere ,acn, aoatcot them, •arrange for traasportatioa and bring taca Lao Vicana by rail.

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Exit peraission for any countrY except Poland is easy tchad no papers arc chccMcd at any l'ronticr•guard station., InCzechoslovakia, alsontier guard guards thc.train to asocrtainthat -nobody rcanina in Czechoslovazion . ttrritory. The hussianauthorities do not Check any papas. • This proceduro Is nAghtlidifferent as to the_exit fro. Polaada AS. the Lählin goveronentdots not allow any official'ealgsctioWthe crossing of theborders by . thcso transports is done 13.loo:117 by PI1R's acn.Oncy in Czcchoslovaida the groups tazo the train end cross to

• ettc66-4.ust1'icn ' border 1 where they filially arrive, at Ploriadorf,. near Vienna. Actual crossing points 44 the.iolish-Czech• bordcr have uot yet btu% cacertained. The olganized groups of

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their chiefs, who have trained uith then in their.country of -origin. They belong to all shed,s of Zionist organizatiOnsfro.; -tne txtrcao rightist hovisionists (ohTnAk or BRIM .TRWELICA) to the socialist 11...aGetWah nAIAIR. These groupsare cnthusiestio Zionists Lad .na y later fora the backbone of nJewish Arm. -Their ages rangc'froa fourteen to thixty.. Theyarc not specifically religious. A special DP ociap fortxtrcacly religious young lamigrplits has been establishcd bythe PIER orgcnizetion at a house, located at No. 27 Goldschlag-

- gesso, Vienna XV. Litay of the young laaigrants hovel:iotaenrolled during this wnr in the Soviet :aay in various cape-cities, •Thcs, ono of the groups recently W38 heededby a.young Jew who had been c licior in the Soviet

• b. •1ho other,kind of cligrant is composed of anysleacnt .of Jaw wanting to colgretc. Any Jew in his respective.coUntry-who desires to'lccvchis country reports to an 4j1Ccomaittc.c.i.naucharcst, Budapest, Bratislava, Breslau, Lviow, -cto,-and ciPplics for a place-in c group. . Very little'screening i.e done at this atege. .43 soon as groups are foraedand PILR has been inforaed of its constitution, he sends outhis C.CSSUIVA'S (antaaIC4...i) who pick up the grouis at the

.starting . point. This is only dont if Inert is specs availableat-the Vienna Jewish uP ccaps. lace below). -If the transport.originetes froa Ruaania, imagery or'CzcohoslovoAia, the"acsacnger" recoives the liens of people froa o tte group Icaders,.. •Sa0 are appoOtcd on the SalOt xo.a one oi the acabers oferOap. It is to be noted hero that the self-appointed groupleaders do not now the &Labors of their groups before thedeparture, which leaves open any oppostuaity of-anyone's.Slipping into the group who is either not Jewish or is a- Jew'who joins the group for other purposes than pure caigration.•

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.. of such Miscellaneous groups is to be mado from Poland the"messengers* smuggle the groups over the :Czech-Polish frontier

'-with the help of local Jewish comnittees. verce the Czech • ...fiontier is crossed the -groups tat= the train for Bratislava, •whence they tQatc. Soma train which will bringAbca to Floridsdorf.

3. Recently lho Awstriun hod Cross has been helping the • -.-emigration of aiacellancous groups fr:.aPolund into ;.ustria.'Whoa tale happens, a roproscat.:tive of the mustrian Rod Crossis addcd to the transport. Th.1 trensport is formed in Broslau,hcadcd'hy the .ustrian Red Cro ps man and "mcascagor",'they

• take a train which leads to Zebrzydowiczo (Polond),-from there -cross .intoCuchoslovakia, arrive in Buguain (CSR), Brcslav

• (CSR), Bornontve (CSR) and from there a train transports them: .to FloridsdoTf, near Vicana. Th .:. only control is by the Czech.frontier guard at Bugumin, ohenoc'e frontier gucrd remains on

•thc train until it reaches iloridsdorf, to ensure that no one• roaains in Czech territor/.

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2. ttio . bibgest osic is •ituated-ixthe formor hothscnildhospital, it the Woehringcr Gucrtel, Vicana .IX. (It has.*capacity of 750, but as transit of refOgets has stopped cadtrensports have beon pouring in, it gow houses 1300 refugoos.J.$ further transports arxivc, it bee been.contamplatod taxing

! a large ostablisnmont next door which will increase the °opacityof this oamp to 2000). ncra the misocilansous refugees arrive. •They arc rogisterud by Pra t o men and summarily scroe god. Theselists arc submitted to PILU, who persog:aly, or through his men,interrogates them on possible inte1li6once or information desiredby"bthe Jewish Agonoy. They will remain here until a possibilityexists to send them fuethcr-on to the next stop, thc.Jewishtransit omap at ylans. The exact lists of errivois is not givento the DP officer; who 406 . fta office in the building. This

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'allows PIE to transport anyona ha dcsirca aad wituseha dots not wish to rcvccl. Thc Rothschild DP, oamp As cdaiais-tcrcd by a permancnt staff paid by thc AZDC in Vleana. -Actually,they arc PILR i s.hanchmea,.who only obcy him-,:bliadly. •

.3. The.ntxt.biegcst DP oemp.is situatcd at thc primaryichopl at the ,Uscrbechcrstrasse, It has i capacity of-350mcn and viatica. It it cialusively rcsarvad for orgcnizod groups-'of young cwish future colonists, (Scc-para6raph E2). 'The •

..youths arc not illowcd to lccvethc placc daring thcir stay inVicnno. Tho vaap raccivcs thc aatcrial help of tha and ofUNRR.;•.' It is again run by a mall stuff of parannant-acabcrewho obey only rila. • , . ••

4.Thc third'sacllast is tha housc at Jo.-27, Goldschlag-gassc, "Vicuna ).V (the. oaly . onc in thc Yreach &vac.). It iscxclusivaly rcscrvcd for Jauish raugacs uuo obcy strictlyLim rcligious and dictary labs., hut uho 4.X4 still trained forcolonists -war:: la/Palestina. .. .• .•• •

5. 'Thc saclUst "caap" is situated at apartaent No. 2,F.tanirgassc, Vicuna IX (un' UBY. hcadqdarters). ' It 'maims aboutto doicnIcUish refugees aad sarves as a covcr for PIER'sintalligcace activities. :It is officially ...loun as 'anlacrican traasit caap for • Jcuidh tax= concentration ccapinactcs". PILK i e offioc is locatad tbcrs. Lists of arrivingraugscs cvcrp,hcro also are draun up. .11 tclephoning toBratislava, Budapcst, Barna, vcraany :and ..uatrid is donc'froathis talepaciaa (No. 1.-27261). PIiI icceivos his axoscascro(sqx.;TChIU) thare cad boordiaatis thc arrival and tha dcpartuxesof thc convoys from'4un4ttry, Czuohoslovaida and Poland.Iptcrrogations of capacially interesting rcfugcca arc held inthe apart:ant. 'Thc. °Mot staff is composcd of,acabcrs of.PIER's organization.- .

G. -OMER MISH DP CS IN'.USTRI.

1. hpart from thc numbcr of Jcwish DP ocalps nomad in pare-graph re, thcrc ere o nuabcr of transit maps which constitutethc chain to tranapor.0 thc incoaing raugets iron the Balkanscithar to nicotine or lo Gcraany (ultlactc dcstinction,tha US.?). • ' • . •

2..0 soon as roan is °pan in thc next caaps, ths.Jeuishraugoos arc movad• out Cf. 1/lama, by trucSa and transported tothc transit camp at Bons.. Gcncra/lvthay only stay in Vicanaabout thxce or four days, but owing to thc.closing of ttc fronticrein Chrzany, rcfugces arc in Vienna ..1°Ve than three uccus.

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then transported to Prcilassing ia-Saveria,-whcre ,a6cia hachcor is biing -lac% by the ailitcry authorities, as therc is alack of official ordcrs about Luis transit. ugoin a acacia;list is shbaitted cad the persoaalitics °t i the rcfugcts ..re •not cheosod by nay sucuritrfcgcnoy. .

• •• 4. Thc rcfugackiatcndiag to go toWlebtinc or at . lcast •

. loItely -hrc dircoted to belzburg, A.lacre. macy arc housed in• 7 . 1Iulln MAJR (ocpSoity.about.250 ca). This ccap is run by

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U B tcaa and aided aatcrially by the"Sulzbuft'rcprcecatativo •of the ...JDO,..U.ICE, co ;.aerioan citizcn.-•

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1. The iatclligcnos possibilities of this flow of caigzationfrom Russian-accupicd countries has not been overlooked by

• different intelligence services. The (London) Polish Intolli-genoc Scrvioc, it the person of Hajor ZUILIAS4Y, the SalzburgLiaison Officcr to thc US 42d Infantry Division, has at differdattimes approached the Salzburg :JIM man'to allow hia to use theemigration movamcnt for their own-couricr service into Poled.There is no doubt that thc.hussien intclliacacc services arc• in tAis flow of Jcerwto infiltrate. Jcwish,Or ncid-Juvish •

-:agontel inte.) . the alicd zones. • . .

2: Lpart from the Jcwish uscacy eAgr:.tion which monthly'exalts from 3000 to 3500 rcfugccs to cater the:4:1114a zoncs,

.a ocrtain number of "reckcts" ere bciag operotcd, wnich ounoaly-operetc (a) bcceusc-of iueuffioicat •up4rvision of the

• • Amerioan *authorities, cad (b) with thc nclp of foreign services,such ;.13 thc aung.rich State. 2olice, the AaVL, the haa,„urienRod Cross, the UNhku, the (lhiblia) Polish rcpctrietion oommittossin the ..ucrioan zone, few czaaplcs: The rcgular traffic of

. non-Jews, Jazis, etc., from audopcst to View= ma by oar,„JaLlua'61.4.11h who with the oomplioity of thc AaVD in Bul.pcst„

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,thc formcr rcproscritative of the AJIC in oudapc ,.'"ff°24NerV2171.34"

scnt-into tho US ..one to ca bcnize the rcpctriotion of mungcrianJcws to'nuagory. dc Wall, until lattly, given the use. of 4. • 'spcoial "DP oamor at No. lj btrudelhofgessc by'the DP ScatioaL,Vicnna Area Coaacna. tiis rotacr shady contacts with the nuaga-rian Rcd7Cross cad nit &migration of non-jaws froa mungary,:.forced thc US aathoritics to hcvc him rcnounee this EPtaap:E6 is now hood.:4 in thc offiocs of tat L‘unbarian hed Cross atthe Collegiva 4:tungarioua, Wo. 5, wuscast::cesc, Vicana.

.3. Apart frOm thc'abova-acntioncOcaigration "rathcats"which arc practically official, or ct lcast not ehmecd, therearc without doubt many similar organiicd bands who, with theaid of forgot! pepers.of Rcd Cross organizations or raugcc aidorgCnizctions, erc caigrating non-Jewish "rtfugets" whose:dims .ere dcfinitely not thosc of emigrcting purely to the US. or toPacatine. It. will bo thc duty of this preicet to locatethan and ncutreliza thcir intclliacnec aetivitics.

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idacrieen-personacl will be plaecd as acwspaper acn in • .::7'.thc DP otaps'of the hothsehild knstitutc cad thc ...1scarbeeter-•strassc DP ea...ip for intcrrogation of-rtfuguts--their aim tieingto coll.at strcight intelli‘eacc on hussion'OB, AIND activitiesof rccuat datc, tooXgrouad material of coonomio and political•atuic. Thii ovcrt projcot of istaCr SI . ncture than I-2, willbe thc starting point for thc ocrtfUl rceruiting of abunts for.thc furthoranee of all oovert..aims cnomeretcd in paragraph 2.

•• 2. Careful sclection of cwish agents in Vicana,to bc uscd

to aollcot infoxmutioo on utiorction movcacnts other thou tacJewish..gcnoy enc ., ind evcatuolly to peuctrato the. Further-rcports will describe any such zemt uncovered witn...exaot.dcseriptions of their activities, roads' pursonalities andpossible intcllionee aotivitics. .

• •3. • Contact with the cwish Agcnoy puoplc on an unofficial

basil will allow this projcot totsecrtain . thc-persoailities .involved in any other netiviticis, other than the. purely 0

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Cmcchoiloraila and Po1en.1 3 the routea follcuudt.;.:06.rsterefugees into Vle -ailed Zones. Tne nwiat .4ency'poople.sec.m.

. ; willing to inform On any other emigration movement uhicamigat ruin their autivities in the ayes of the US authorities.Znformetion.of iignintolligenaa value is . being promised bythe :cwiah Agency poople. For inottioco:t ,the :cwish Agency

• .peoplo arc artenginethe desertion of a lowish HUD major. in Vienna around the middle of May 1946.* This project will be

allowed to hold this Rassion officer at its disposalsuntilsuch tic thct his detention will notbe acocienry any more.

4. .Long-renge nimi: • (Reference-JJ-1 . mcmo 12 Lerch 1946)., U111 bc devellped ia . due time along the goes set down inthe.memo..

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