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, In 1934.. tri6h i • as working in WiihelMssh.0.11.1 .' its a '"N &ten.• o-qieier" for e, a , on in: its infamy., 'Ho . -wiLEt' mictri4ed ith' the

ta.e.k of ' 'forming.Whekt 'cannot be rated. -higher-than . an ninfogaatiOn •-•:eyetelasto ,bring dividends from all parts ; :of . the..world.in:the shape Of repOrts'15nforeigr,i shipping and Naval matters.. To this end. taiPPER had' estlabliihed

till following • sources of information:- - • .- •• • . • .. • • •

, • • •1) Contacts. in Belgium and Holland., who had. undertaken. •tck`sup,p3,y'vicitten•

reports on. • inloli information' as could be..gleaneeiri ;the ports .. of Antwerp; "Rotterdnm and The 'Hague. • •••'' . • •••••• • ...* • • .• • " • •

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liars registered at the Bremen Aussenhandelsstellep who 'supplied' 4aterii refigp-tding .2 forlitii 4arsiieles s and 'naval and. shipping. ,bonstrUotkm, . co. eoted --:th4 normal bourse. Of their •travels,, :• • • • -4, ••

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1). Ierohant NaVy' .Ottytains and :officers .ihoSe:.shiPe:were.,basiiicl.:•-oii,•.the.: poTt. of Wilhelmshaven; • • • • . 1 - . ,,. .. 1 • • 1.. . -.

• . .' .4) giewaida-'6±1 ireaseleplying:between . .4e*any ••erixi New Toils,' who obtainedshipping publicatiOne and technidal: * journals of all :types 'ihild . i*New .• . • .York, - and also reported t6 ifiE.13-M, the .,res3.11ts of ih4.1ii: ovyn'obserVatiOne .of shipping. sta. In addition, these Men acted as couriers foi••••5.1.--1?°11"••••

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PREIFFER by thenayp.1, developments in the U.S,..1.• and to ze.nd,repOrtscou,riers Mentioned above..

•".-• • •••••^: . • , It should. be understood. that this stage .PBElre.hat had not asked for

anr.acttie-1 espionage to be :undertaken on his behalf; Infos:mantis were Urged.not to drew attention to themselves by unlawful Or dangerous' "stiCOPing".Nevertheless, 'from these. souroes And from other individual informants. toonurlperous to mention here, PFEIFFER .had. begun to build. up a great deal Ofvaliaable material for the use of the NaVal and Military allthorities; :andwas-,. laying thefouzadations of an exteneiVe intelligence organisation which• .to prove. extrenely valuableIn later years.,

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. . - .It i anusirig to .learn that * PFEIFFER was..an. admirer'•of,

the .Austrian "Master-Spy" of 'the' 1914F-1918' war) . 'whase methods influencedhis's-oval approach to intelligence Work: '

By the b,eginning, of .1935,•VHE-. round..' the ..:olcified ,a.rea'•orhaven, and. the limited. aCoPe Offered to hit there, * irksone.4:14obatr4ctive,,and:began to wOrli =Ore ana Libre : in the Bremen area, ' whieh as a Woild-wide•ehip?ing base•,offered =Ore oPportunities, ConseqUelitly,. af.ter mr.licitig re-

- pre a entations to CAN/IRIS, baring . the.. latter ra visit ,to Vilhalthehaie4 . inApril 1935, PFEIFFER was -authorized. to transfer his office to 'Bremen: and.virla promised:full. 'facilities for condtiCting and. :expanding his 'Work ,there.After he had submitted a scheme for the Bremen Stelle Abweihr heixdquarters,

, it *as officially, agreed that PBEIZFER ahead concentrate ;on the obtainingof tharine inel1igonoe, and should seek i,nfO/*,.tion. on worldwide, as wellas *orth -Sea, traffic.

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-Cotober 1935, Its staff of fr oQ ised PFEIFFER as 2asststed by the ,shipping •eipert S&VIIIEm one 'Secreta* ' and one chauffeur.

. . •Th4: Nest. was conducted .. on the sane lines 'ae ..thoee pre'01.Ously- , pursued by

::PFE#FFER., and. exijOyed. Coragete freed of .tictibt:" ltiortEIN broVed: 'Anasset to PHEMEEz, 'proCeeding With the, reeruitment of. ormantsfrog among merchant marine offioers babed. on Brenen, thereby fbnil upa vital ,source of infon.lation from all quarters of the globe.

•At this -.time and subsequently, both before ancl ..,..after the -outbreak of

• var. PEETITER ,exploited personal c9litTIPt • iiII:therdirectorate of the Nord-deUtscher: Lloyd. • Shippina CoMpany fOr the guivzio86 • of reeruiting agents and

. couriers fren among crews on the , coMPany't s ..yeasels, and the' co4aily ;col-labCrated . with Neat .BreTaen'to the eXtent of Presenting likely reCruits foremp1oyment as agents • Or officials of the :Nest.. • •

In 1936,. HEINER commenced ' to'exPiOre the pOesibility of obtaining re-intelligence regarding France !s navy, and clefence Systems.. .

. .Profitable sources of such ;aaterial Were delitacts'0 4. de in Rhine andconstru.ction firms undertaking Contra.ets in France.. -A.' sedcind ;valuable

S01.41(18 was p.; wench Naval officer, • Marp .111,IBERT, Who.volutlteored. his services

43. Cea,man,agent„ , and.:ProVided...extroMely highrgrade.• . . .. .- • • •• • • . .

.From travellers tO . Eivland Cana : repcirts pörte, ehipp . and theBritish Navn -"while from-his merchant marine informarits FBEIFFER received•xctallent materiakdealing with stipping and defences the British colo-nil, Japan and Russia.

; is of interest to learn from MEV= that .he welconed.reports on-Russia Obtained -,therOugh that aountrzr a :placing Of contracts with Gel;manfirms in the Ruhr. It was not .until 1937 or 1930 that it Wei3 aisc,taed. that

•intelligence frora Rtissia...did not fall within the e.egie, of 'Nest Bretz*.

In the autumn. of 1937 pREIPPERwas instructed to expand, his work, ofesponage against . the .Unite a, lailadcri, frath'Whibh .00tintry any type. of. Intellig note was to be sought, ana to facilitate, the implementation of these •

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., One of themost iMpOrtant 'undert' ak s of AUGENBR, the newly'e.- pointedlEi 'Official, was • the redi4uitment, •training and .control'Of•.an agentHolland, Albert /ZEUS, who until the outbreak of war was productive of 'mater-ial fitta the Ua,.K ',7estern EUrope, , India' and MalayaP. ' all of which countries, . •he'visited; under business cover. .' .. . ., •

. 'BEkIDI..)±N . 00ntrolled O. • number' *of agents in the Nest EaSt, , who pi-ovided.hiPping intepigence from the Bosphorus and.. Dardanelles area, and later

fi-On Syriallpoivbs.

PIttIFFEE: meanwhile continued, to -expand%hia ind.sting soptroaa,. and was,highly satisfied with results, Ixatil early in 1938, when to hia surpriseand. dismay a major catastrophe befell his agents in the U.S.A. 0 the: Maj.-ori:ty of these being ap-.., •?rehended by the .p.pjt, ;Thia 'disaster was followedvery shortly afterwards by-the arrest in Frarice of ilare "..i.a1BERT, who hadbeen providing : useful infethation regarding French coastal defences and

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The 'denotiedent • in .AmeriCa caused 'criticism of PREIFIER,. not only withinthe Al.paehr but also by NoiddimitsCher officials, .since- the , arrests.,

ch inCluded that ot,::41... hairdpeSSei:, Johanno.i... :161tWANI■1, of the S.S. Europa,brciUght'''dierepute to • the Shipping =FM managed. to •ei6une *CAMP.18„ who indee.d. showed Oörusaderabla restraixn . and.ixad.ers:tanding; by explaining • that te reurii9 1 of hia • group . of 'agentshad. been 'due t6 the, careless and .confused behaviour of one; of the cOuriers,Karl Sag[IETtR,. who, .'eritii;ely, without PEE 'ar knowledge ., had- beeia

. aiMultwieOUS4 by 1,„st-ifainbtirg l , and had also 1)6060 involved in Nazi Pork?:organisations in.:_the,Unitea-Otatfils.

•• .m.ttatTs this explanation, Which 'was. in , faci legitimate , andtOpar-z. 0.orit4iitod..• to enjoy .both bnd the sane egreegre e of

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. 'During' the . 's aim . Year, 138‘,...113EIFFER: ' had enliat6d.theserricies' of two:nen Who were to ..reibain with . Nest Bremen' throughout the •war..,. 'and who main-tairi4 And developed the Nest/ a ../'53t30,1.1iVes with considerable energy itnd..errter-

' pri;se; : 'name 1J6harines' BISCHOFF and .Nikolaus : BESSMANNs . The.' tormez,pottOn merchant; ..had. bUsiness connections in England,. and. during the fre,-;

vieits: Which. he : nad.e. • to the 1.4 .1C. u to. ' the outbreak . of war he', pro.rOtioeci information on industrial 'and airertift * : doVe1OpMen.ta in that cOusitry.BENSMANN, an oipert . .in;.the 0.3.7.in4u.stry;-vith • inntinerable .contacts

, Europe •arid. „Auer-Ica,- 179.13 able to recruit agents . who applied .nteUienoe. rOgo.*Iii* oil storage and refinIsig plants MK-WIPTwas alsS. :responsible for creating,.0. secret • ,

At 'tiethe tine of the CzeOhi;SiO4ek..orisis in 1938, Nest Bremen ., ooti-non with all Abtehretellearesporisible for offensive 'espiOne.ge in the -Westo,was InetrUcted!to ' 'report on Preparations for war on the part' of GrekkBritain and. 'Frazee.

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headquarters for PHEIFFERIs efficienr•And -achieiraments r• ,

PHEIFFER himself was atriotialy 'engaged in Construcing : a new .networko• agents to operate agairlSf the U.S.A.ObtAkbed that, but for the ut.i-1 his knoWiedge of :ciObtain, of his agents by ''Ast Hamburg,a • previous methods , WOUlt-hati: O.britlitieE2tb. :bring successful results, heproceeded. • alarig :' similar line s first recruiting two stewards • on a New York-GyrraEuk shipping route:, :end: .sedandly gladly: accepting an offer of ;servicesreceived 'shortly afterwards frOM'Zition . KCEDBL, o. German in iNew York, whomha : inetruCted .:to -report on military matters ,and Qfl hipping. in NeW Yorkharbour.

,In January 1939; PHEIPFER attended a special course for Abteilung I

offiderS in Berlin; which was 'directed .by VASS:ER, GrUppen.leiter ,I.Luft,and wiiich'• 'oarisiisted of detailed instruction in airaiiifi reocign.i#Oli and.technical aviation matters,

xing the • s UOOP °ding. nine months, Nest Bremen received an increasingn*ber of enquiries from headqUa.rtert . -regarding ports and. shipping in theLevant, but was unable to achieve satisfactory results in this direction.

. . • . . .. •. pHEIFFER, who had. for some years been bonv-in. ced • of , the. ineVitability

of war, and who now, realised its imminenoe, Painstakingly brought:his dos.,.. siers up-to-date: froth official and. unoffioial naval publications obtainedf.4'03:1.. his . own sources ; considering' that statis ticis and .charts . issUed ,by Abt .IM Were inacdurate , . Re . thus ' ims „able) to construot : ic plan :of aompe.ign in

.respect of naval intelligence ., rendered himself independent 'of ., or unliMi-tad. by:0,, directive.s issued by the Kriegamarine, and. was. ready to meet thealtered, deManda WhiCh: he anticipated Wh,en warl was declare •f,I. NES:_r BRE, 1iEN.8„..aut.......24.1.2 .a.L._,.._.2,b2ierab June .

ImMadiatelY after -the outbreak of war Nest Bremen was given...the pri-ority assignment of obtaining detailed inteUigenoe egErdin'foriislipping in Northern European waters, : To PHEIFFER'a .disappointm nt, hefOund that the majority Of his contacts lapsed into silence end he re-Ceivec;1 very little intefligenoe from pro-existingagents.. • It th4reforebecame a vital and urgent necessity to activate new sources.. To this endNest Bremen officials toured. the LOw:CoUntries and rjemark, recruitingagents mainly from amongst ,BENSMANNtS business .contaats; • among these wereagents Who provided .information regarding :the R.4:1'. . :and the aircraftindustry in Britain, : Meanwhile, fo•ibwing the traditicin es?-tabIished by 111-3EIpER, opened a neW 'channel of coraMmication with agentsintie . 1te3.ted: States; " The agent : GRINIM"Was.. establiShed in Miliaxollith the

rs task of recrUiting and contra/ling *Membere of creWs :of U.S. • ships . callingat Italian ports. cianez was asaisted in this work by Karl EITEL' who*ore the arrest 's early in 1938 had been. a 'ste*ard, on the . .3.5. Bremen,uliiised'as an agent Courier by PHEIWER.' These sub-iagenta, Licted as;substitutes for the couriers on the Brermen-New York liners used before thewar to bring material from the U.S.A.4 they were also utilised ad, oouriersfor 4=4404:f5 :U.S.A ... contacts the exphitation of whom, _enabled : Nest • BrementO keep au fakt with the latest iiMerican technical developments.. By theP#d of 1939 PBB Dr Vas receiving from this 'oharuiel, excellent reports on

. shipping and. Army training methods from a prewar agent in ,New.-yorli.',. FUrther contacts: of BENS= proved useful agents 'iii and

through yet :anOther. friend 1:of..BEN344,41.4. : with 'good :panneötions - Iles anetwork of informants was created in" South ,' AMerica..:j t=gfsFria„; an agent of BISCHOFF dispatohed to Colorabi. via

Italy i 19 was instrUcted to Set ?.zp a 17/T, station there; -and,: by build-iefg up a sub-agent network in` Solikth, 44erica; another source of •inpormationon developments in the U.8.4, was established,

14tivitieS on behalf 'of'llest . BreMen' Onino...are.•evidenced b5S. the.presence in 1940 :of • at least' one . tigazit, 111211LICRE, in • Shanghai; with whomthe WT station in Colombia made, contact, whi3.e' an agent . dispatched to theU. S.A. in the spring . Of that, year dispatched' 'reports Bremen via coveraddresee$ in Shanghai; • Switzerland b.nd. ilazi, anal' 'probably communicatedalea . by .17/T *via the Colombia !nation: •

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•. *• A further impOrtant devolpppent in ttte ear2.y part of 1940 Iiina theestablishraent of agents in Prance.

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.. gs-Patc:i17.. ,0. .. 0. ggerit 'paimed .yuT.,24.91 # ; Panadhqhciwever, ..althoUgh . the •,perti...41r,reabheti bglada, via he thS..4.,::iind -suceess&lly evade a . ..detection by the 1743:*.and.':Canadian• authorities,• nciretorts were 'ever , received from. h$. ' '. ' . ::: ' ':' • ' i I. ..'" . '...., .;,.

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• . At this t ime. BISCII0PF.tunde'reb:. the ask of ' contacting, , thrbUgh the .Bremen Chamber.,of:Commercie;: persbns „entering andlearink the 'country.

•• These travellers were dirsoreetIY 'interv.'ieWScr prior to :their departure 'and. atter'their . return, .and while spectacular re,sults • were . neither achieved. •nor expected, a. • certain 'amoUnt of useful 'infemation, was ,thus obtained.This interrogation' was carried.: 021 .'unddr .. the ciOver!-tit.le of the "Seevei

:- kehra-Nairigati.onsbuere,'.and. the work was . known as the Wirtsoha.ftsbefo,.rajglxagsdienstv, .! .... :. .: .: . : - ' °.,. - . ' • ' ' • . •

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Whepritied- and, . interrogated. ships' captains and crews... . „• These': two methods of seeking intelligenCe Were 'abandoned in 1942;

however, throughout the War he Net cOntinued to iriterrogate,GerMennat-ionais: returning froii abroad, Icith to obtain intelligence . and, with a

. itiew to selecting possible agent This Work was.' desbribed latterly. as PRUCkwandererbefragungadienstl; ' • •

In Nay 1940 Paint: .left Nest • Bremen,. taking' oheoge: of an Einsats.-kccitindo which . accamPanied the .G.627341 :44,', in advance through . the LbwConntries and. France, and he was replaced, as Leiter by E.Lt. ,,CAn, who •frOra the outbreak of war until this , date had. been Leiter of.'Ip'•(Prease)'NeSt ilirreittin.'"aftsection. formed to deal with the extraction of "inte.11igence

• =isroW.fOrtisign:,publibations.. received in theMist freizi''611 SOUrfaces. CARLhadcbeen,:.astisted, • in, •this,yori by Scr• . slirozzOftgit, • 4r.tia . by BIX116114. -thelatter specialised. 'in , material from the M.'S. ,•. Eire and: thei S.14: end. also

t: dn, the ..etxllection of .., econoMio. , material' on. South ..tamericm.,...which:liNst, taskhe.kperred on behAl f pf Abteilung:I de*dini..the resiultd ...of his

•aOotirs. to :Berlin. headquarters. Mast' Of the material derived from Southérioa receiVecl; by BISCHOIFF froz4,(tie in 'Milan, 7 who *subs Cribed td all

important South *American publioations. • ,. • . •

Fron.;, the ,t )44;6.: the . Nest the piimm‘nt .:figUres were not,•: raight be eXpepted,• the Sub:,..eicitit4nti'Leiters,, , but BISCHOFF and SEtsmiNN.

Little is kriown. of 4:1,2L I s Per4onaI a.biity as Leiter but =kit' hag emerged.regarding the actilities of theifeirro subordinateS Aiii .. dontinued..in. the

' traditions . of -their . rebruiter and first Leiter, PlIBIFFER. : •

• • In the 'summer of •,1940 n attemPt Was made to;dispatch . liabert ./ME14 toafter :careful -rr..1.14rig had. been given in secret writing :.ancl:raiora.-

phcitography. • This. agent- failed to 'LI:ob./it:a beyorid . Beigrade and. eventmliyreiurned to the Nest' for. re-employment .elsewhere. No evidence has beenreceived of any agents suceessfullY .operating "frori • Troi.k ;aiming the war.

. . . , . . .. .. In this year also a WT. trained' a:gen-C*1:1k laded. in 'Ant.irerp to report

on. Charnel shipping. •. • • '.addit iori .ttsie above by the..of „194.0". Neet . BreMery was reoe lying •

reports on Allied and.. ne4tral shipp ing from the.'fOilowing SourOes/.• • „•1) Officers of deir4an cargo vesselebased on Bremen, Bremerhaven and

„Rmien; .,•.. ' ! 0 '''' . • • •.2 German raerdhaiit hairy 7Veitthe :.'Ini Baltic ports;

3 Agents • in •Swedish ports; •.4- An agent in IstanbUIT:•'..•:\''' ''''": .. . ..5 German merchent...shippingstill ..plying in the Mediterranean .

(reports . from ..fiese . beingemostly a:mat:tea to . Bratien. via Istanbul).. . . . . ., . .

• ., As a prtiil...larf experinent-,..-in -the auti .2.r.n.of. .1940:BISCEIOPF . had Ben.*,.._,;..two .agents .to::?ortp,go.4.. tic . Set tzp ...# Lisbon. s a branch cif..a Bremen firm with

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which one of; :them was connected. When the branch I. been: p'stabitahal.d.in Lisbon, one agent, John OSitRas. returned, Johazin kA3OIER : iepain4ig-anfi for silc months eending.e0nomio end naVal! .intel4gese in secret•wrf,ting` tr.0,11SCHOFF, By the . .sj?rip.g. :Of 199. it liad!bpen decided thatmore eriout attention should be giVeito "tkiet explaitation of the IberianPen.inSUla as a base for the obtaining of haval, end Shilipi2.1,g intelligence,and. therefore GR22114, in whom BISCHOFF placed great'cOnfidOxidel l was re;*

led fro= iind after instruction =Id prepathtion in Bremen Wassent to Lisbcnito COnstrucit a large-scale :agent network in the Peninsula,and to establish a 17/T station for the rapid :transmission oT. infei ,Tigence,to-.13reMen•thro the. Hamburg TTA ,Stelle..'!

. • :. .In June 1914 'CALL attempted. to .4P1ement the ex.istiiig 's.Ourege of.

intel14:enbe in Frenbe, ;. in particIti rvi' by the establish:lent of agent on theRitiera coast. Negotiations with st Paris, however, ; • fell through andafter the :frustration of suocessiVe atterapts 94RL Ceased to pursue this aim.

No =ajar deVelOpraents followed during the • vrinter-r-of 194-1/42. It isof :interest, however, to note that, aways . . in aearch , Of fresh' fields,Nest )3rezaen .disPatchód . twC agents tb,..4frica. The first was sent toPogUese 77est Afrida there- it vas: intended -that he•'ShoUld 'establishhitie 114.ith- ,17/T transmit 1e Was also iniltioctild t reditit asUbitgent to operate in south 21f.rib.,. and 'both were to collect shippingan economic intelligence, for transmission to'. HaMburg::' Abteiltin& 321.

Austle ...Havre co-operated in arrangements for the agent .s dispatch.'He was arrested 'ehartly 'after landing in Africia, end n reports were everrecleived: frOm

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The sec?ricl 'agent, a Belgian national named 13E80=111K . Who had spentmany prp ..-War,,years in the !Belgian COngo, .an4 . was recruited r ,Aust_ Antwerp,gtill trained. Jointly . by the AntWerp and, bY Nest Bremen, ms.8 sent to •Lisbon,en roUte -for : the :Belgian Congo, where he was tO . establishTIVT •con-

• tn....cit with Ikuuburg and to,.•tranetiit' intelligence of an °dom.:raise awl...generalnature. 7hiie in Lisbon, this agent was entrusted to the Care of GRIMM.Ths.agent failed to reach the Belgian Congo, being • arrested • arrival inEngland, in which country . he had hoped : to procure a Vies: for the Congo.

. . . . .In L.pril 1942 a second agent, 'Alfred L0113E114 was dispatched to

Canada, this time by submarine; ' however, elthoUgh ,. • :ttfe agent had. beentrained and controlled by Nest Bremen offióials,'this" .miseion- was directedby '4'-i.bte4.1ung ThI,''• ; , ! : ' • , .

the sane year Frank WeAe.' JORDAN: MO: dispatched by )3.T.scuon to. . .South .11raerida;':: this, • agent was clireotea"to settle in RAC' de Janeiro, and.shortly after his arrival he eStablished con-66.dt' with 'Bremen, 'trans-mitting' Shipping intelligence which proved of little Value.

GICTANNI organisation in Portugal ,•,

By the smiler of 194.2, MIMI had 'establis.hed a large network ofagents in Lisbon, Madeira the Azores and. Portuguese iAfricr., from whom hereceived excellent shipAllg reports. The whole network, which probablycomprised at least two dozen agents, was knialm as the GIOVANNI organisation.Through the recruitment of members of crews of Portuguese vessels, GRIMMorgenisad a courier system of communications with outlying agents.

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: IPORTUGZ.L.

I•HORTA, AZORES PORTUGUESE VEST LAMA

I.IEDEIRA

(o. 8 agents) I or more ezerits . Stiveraiants, orie• of.whco Con:broiled 'centsin the BELGILN CONGO

imut DaSE0'ñtLJiflfbbUt.8 sub-agents.

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: i..' Xn.. /94'BENSMOR tralhod three or four ravropuw,k) 401 an I-networkvh*oh . he planned:to.OtabIlsh Anthe rie,b4P.Pielb,purhood, but while anroute in Ligeira these agahtstehaved itresponsiblyand were sent back•to Gernan3r. -••• , ;. • -

• • • In . ths, 1914.2 in .VieW .g th,'S posSibility .-6hat',404i4. de-..Qid to ..deport German nationals, it. was ,deoided, ;firstly, that a nUmber of, •. Spanish natioriald Shotild'be -txo.i•ned • as T1/T agents, 2and Siebnd2y that a .•aaurier service' should be formed to convey letters 14- . band. from 'the- Franco-Spanish frontier to Bremen. ' This second telln was' aobbraplished :bY the'Waits:Lent of links in . Paris:" Toprooing, Tilburg and 'Groningen. Unfortuna-

..tely for the .first part o'f-the...pann, however, November ., saw the arrest inLiSbon : of GRT'r and his .ohief assistant; ;i.rbb would -Piave'. carried out • the

•• Work reoruitnen1 before much progress had been ade,' and a few weeks•Itter.• eight more of the 'GIOVANNI . network were . arreistecl..by• •The Portuguese.In ;Spite of 'repeated. efforts by B/BOHOFF • he never sti6Ceeded in.Billy.re- •establishing the Renet • in Portugal. However, after . •a ntOber' •;ce visi4s •end representations :to , K. O. Portugal, BISCHOFF sileicie'eded'in't■reouring 'therelease of GRIlitt and: . his . ..at'siSttait 1914.3, the majority of the net-work oontinui to be held under arrest. ••••• :., • -

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•Ln Aussenstelle of Nest . Bremcn tras , pet UP. P2L' • rithentallye4n France inJanuary 1943. . This amounted to little more than a •-17/T pi:mtg. ' . Two W/Toperators were sent by BISCHOFF to St. Jean de , .L.u.p, where they installed atx.laraitter, Ana. eStablished contact with PreMen. l'he purpose behind thismove is not clear,' but', as :Par as is 'main, the 'Stolle' was utilised mainlyas a 1ong-diOaf.16,& practice station, to which qualified' Nest ...Bremen agents

' • - 'arid operators. were seiht for short ,periods and from which daily traffic wasexehanged -with, *dents at the Bremen Stelle: ytqk ir i arge of thisPuxikatelle until bray 19414. when he as replaCed by Werte tJ12KE.1

Apnointment of DRIESSEN as Leiter.

"a March. 1943, ',CARL was transferred to Marseilles, , and Adolf DRIESSEN• • wa.s promoted ' ti" . tako hiS place: a's' Nest Leiter. DIZIESSEN . proved to be an

/ • • • • .• apathetic and, ,,ineffectual Leader, and was . .content to allow BISCHOFF' EaldM N-B to take the initio.tiVe . in the .110s,t ! if entilrPrilses:•

Agent NetWork in the Iberian Peninsula • • • •

ThroughoUt..19/4.3. ; 'abortive attempts were. made by BISCHOFF to •re-establishand. strengthen the ..gav'ANtri organisation- 1n : Pbrtugal 'and to 'build up anetwork of :71/Zage'rits in Spain. 213palty, amatig waS s sent. to Madrid in thisconnection, but 'he'prOba- blY'hEva little suc,osss.•

Syrlitterland•

•....Another .htuiting-g round for intelligence :wait Switzerland., which kfestBremen officieas and agents , visited from *le to tine throiighout the vrarsgenerally under cover Of `personal busines : A not ii-orisiderable quantityof !Material was amassed in this 4-Inner; theintell&genee thus obtainedbei:ng largely of : an elorioraio nature y

Nonth . • • .' •

• -..i the . .Sur6er: of .19144 in the light of the termination of parspaigns,,North. Africa, IM Sued -considered it deSire,151e. to Create : an intelligence

.. net/work in thitct country,. and . eince,,t1CUANN, an official of :Nest Bremen was',•, in tOuch with . .krab eiroles 'in Syria and Iraq it was .' , decided that Nest• Bremen 'Undertake.' this, task. • 014......6.1416N 'was . ordered to inves.• .tigs.te the possibility of recruiting B 4.4 rance e.ttl . North Africa:

••-thrOugh .theSe ocintnots. . :A: numbsr Of 'Ars.b.s Was interViewed by BENSM1X17. in-Fro'npe, nonetWas 1 66ns'idered Su.iis.b14 -for 'recruitment as an agent, andalthough the effort to find eligible recruits Was SUstained Until the r. of '1944.i-the 'prciject. had. finallir à bd•-' abs.ndahed. •',

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In January 19144, further unsuccessful attempts were made to obtain

FrEmoe.

.elligence regarding Mediterranean shipping, though- the e.e't44)-1-1-qhmerir ageTnts along the South Coast of France.

In the spring of 19Li+ a single .agent, Josef FARRACQO 'TUFF, was trainedfor a general 3.ntelligenne mission in Egypt, but was killed en route and wasnot replaced.

V. ADSSENSTP.T4TA EllETENt June 194049445. •

: The absorption of the Abwehr into the E.S•11.A. Spears to have eft.- little praotioal Change in , the Bremen. Stella. Whir.° iteil

ohd staff. gr.aebiAi y dirindled, there We no draatic alterations fkription, or _Administration..

arationrvation Gernan

In the atiner of 1944.. a half-hearted 'attempt Wasird.4..to establishstar-behind. agents in the south of France, who .w.c?. 11,3 repOrt..1;137,' Yirtraesson he progress of the Allied Forces advancing' fro/MA:he south; no satis-fadtery results were 0.4:thieved.

. .At this time .0. • scheme, known as Unternehmen Sued, was 'devised by 3SEL

in anticipation: of 19.nd,ings on the north , :ooast Of "Gerbany. ThiS under--;takng- involved the .asserably of a fleet of Dutch. fishing Vesiseis . and. their osition along the coast. , CarefUlly selected tt.T . operatorS: were placedon each vessel, with inStruction.s • to report any. signs ' of an approaohingAllibeseaboe invasion force. • Nest Bremen participated in this operationto the extent of...inSpecting and servicing the '17/T traniMittere on thesevesSels and at the controlling station in Delfziily BLSCHOFF supervd:singthis work 4

This plan 'exemplifies the desperate •and ineffectual attempts of the"RSIlt-,. to prepare tor the Allied invasion of' 'Geiwny. Such a scheme couldnever have produced any results, for the lOw-i-gro.de agents 'selected as opera-tore would alMost certainly not have had• the 'courage 'to' betray themselvesto the enew by transmitting had they in fact found. themselves overtaken byan larrasion fleet.

: In September, in vieW of the .progreaSi 3Of `the Allies in Prcnoc.an. attempt was made to transfer the St. Jean de LiiziStelle'to Bilbao, but

shortly after his arrival in Bilbao the W/T operator was .expelled fromS1)a4-n by LO. Madrid, Objection being taken te',Kis 'tinheraided arrival inSPE14-11.

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, An aftempt.wae made in November to obtain infonaatiOrx . concerning p.otivi-tieS on: the Western Front, and about the current' , situation in, France,. by theformation of a stet-behind network' of W/T agents, to Which end. ESNSMANNvisited the -neighboUrhoOd. of Baden--13aden. This project was found itpiossibleof fulfilment and had to be abandoned.

, . ., By the end of the year,' with the occupation Of GerizanY anci the end of

• the ,war in sight., on.lY three . senior officials remained. in AussenstelleBrea:I:en, nar.Aely BISCHCFF, BENS/SANN and. the Leiter LE/IESSEN. BMW= foundhimSelf without work, and devoted his : attention for the rer*inaer of thewar to the oil industry, ”joining a..subsidiary ,fina under the Speer organi-sation. Bi3aE-10PF directed his energieS, to: the es;tablishment of stay-behindagents in the area, for 4which'Aussenstelle Bremen was responsible. Theorganisation of st.%v 4;lbeltincl .nét-.1work,a in Wehrkreis X \We..6 directed. by NIDMii0.mburg, and BratiaeriOsi area of responsibility in the WehricreiS was bouxidedby ihe Dutch frontier in the West, a line, Do.ssing throUgh. Emden, Leer,:

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Old nburg and. Bremen,. in the • North, the river ;17eser in the East, and theWe kr.eie boundary in the South. The agents were to Operate only beyonda depth of 501Cri from the fighting frontr, the , intervening 501Cri being theresponsibility of the FrontaUfkle.erungs organisation' '; By -January 1945

• BISCHOFF' s star-behinci agents =bored about Sixtee,ns and were appaiently.

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. considered. by Ent HanbUrg to be satisfactory, although BISCHOFF himself ad-mits that he was unable to obtain recruits of any calibre, and that the

- majority were apathetio said. had no •intention of operating after the Alliedoocupation. 'Bach agent Wad trained in code and. in ..morSei thd. was1,.dquippedwith.a transmitter. "Ai:far as is •known, not a single agent Made contact; •with his oo:htrci*station".-:

. , .. . . •VI 06-1PERATION . 17ITH l'd317t1i4.AND MIL5 • ./XT H.Q. 17ITI-1 ilEGHt0Uit.ING• 'fSZELLEN:

In addition to the activities conducted. on its bwri behalf, from tine .to tine Nest Brenen si.Vplied agents, recruited and: traihed :by Nest Bremenofficials, for miSsions.direeted. by Abteilung its frca. Berld..n: • • For example,in the suciaer of 1944* IM Sud .0dt trarieferred. an agent of NeSt-Bronen HansGEORGLIDES, to Athens, whence he was dispatched on on IM Mission to hex-andria. A Second exaraPle; preViously -mentioned, is that of A.14,:riia . LAitG-HEIN, sent tolCanado. br. submarine in 194.2 Cu a miseion directed by Abti. .

Nest personnel alse frequently , •assistecl other 3M Ste1141,'n:otably AustAntwerp aid Net Brest, the latter Stele being in origin en offshoot of'Nest Bremen.v.althongli'eubdrainated to List Paris. • •

,•VII STIBORDINATION ,

a). October 1935-1937: During this initial phase in its ;history, NestBremen was subordinated . administratively to .Ast 17ilhelmshayeri, Operationallyto •Alrgehr 11,Q .: Berlin. • • •

-b) 1231-June 19244t' In 1937 the *Nest beco.ue sUborcalititbd. administratively

(for discipline,. pos tings and transport) to Ls t • Hathilig,"*Tille 'operation-ally it remathned . under direct control clf lOolsrehr H.Q., .Which .alsq dtealt withwith Nest's finance and -Pronotions •

o) wi; 1 During the mil: Amt Pho:se,,Ausseristel..1.6Bremen was entirely subordinated' to ithM Horaburg, • , all orders issued by theMil.'.grat being *directed to 'Brenezi. threb.g,h ., ta OW Leiter.

. • . • .iss).reiterat leil, however, that the Stelle enjoyed _throughout its

existence a Unique degree of independeried. At Hamburg exercieed vir-tually no control over the • Met's- activities, while such directiVes as werereceived from Berlin were those resulting from general changes in policy.Constructive or pro.ctical advice on raethod:s of operation were.o.pparentlyseldom given, and the successes .achieved by Nest Bierderi were die entirelyto the ability. of ,its off leers ' and 'Cannot 'be • r egarded as refle at ing credit

on the Abwehr as a wh'ole, ' ' •• . •

. .• .. • .VIII TRAINING ESTABLISH:LENTS 7 NEST BREEN :

(1) 7/T Sehool: This school was established , -et ;the beginning of thewar, under the charge of Sdf. -S0 $ or . cx, in the Wachtstrasse Offices ofthe Nebenstelle, In March 1943 SCHIERBNBBOK left Bremen and 'was replacedby Ogefr. LANGNER, and the VT school was transferred for a few raonths toHamburg. Towards the end of 19/4.3. it..Wa.e' again sot up, in Breraen,, withBISCHOFF, as its • , controlling officer. Instruction was gien to 'agents inraorse, codes, W/T transilithiibn f arid construction; but the training of im-portant agents Was frequently supplemented by a course in the Hamburg 17/Tschool. The Hamburg Punkstelle exercised close •control over the Bremenschool, and regular supervisory visits were pad by Ii Officials of theAst Homburg training school, A 'tuber of ' agents ,:cbritrolled. by etherStellen were given full or suppleraentory training.421...the :Bremen 17/T school,SteIlen known to have used the schbol . for the training of their agents in-clude Let Wiesbaden, Ast Netherlands, Ast Brussels, end Ast qtetttin. •

The Ii section t s functions comprised agent-training . and the equipmentand servicing of agents' transmitters only. No W/T .coMmUnication wasccradvated With Other Stollen, or with Nest Bremen Overs-eas, whose traffi°was handled by the Let itenburg 11/T station.

In SePtember or October 1944- the school was evao.uated to Lusb.eck.

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(2) SeotiOn The Leiter . of rg in 1.93 17-6S Lt ESTORFF. ,prob-ably left , in 1940, the work :being continued 'lay*his assistant Vialter =PIG. -The 'Office and laboratory was tituated in the irato des ;Zeiches'• •' *In ad-;dition to the training of agents in SAT 'large part of the Work done bythis section conSisted. in the development of films of defences, '6.itiar*r#6,buildings etc. brought in by agents returning from b.bboad. TIOEVIG aito,specialised in the preparation of microphotographd and the tra.ining of agentsin this subject.: .

DC ST. JE.,A.N DE LUZ . FUNKSTETTP,

Leiter" 4pril 19L.3 - May 1944: , :iime GRIMM:liray 192+4 -*,‘ *July 194: TTerner *R0EP10E

l&claress: • "TranspOrttieberwachUngsst.eLle" "; Narida Schokoa,'Rue Vonbau(?), St. •Jean de . Luz.

The function of this oUtetp.tion has been described ' above4-14).1n* ad-dition, the personnel were tible to facilitate theiliontieraitsaing -of ,NestBremen personnel wishing to enter Spain. in .:+ugust 1944 tIle Office' 'Wasclosed. and all equipthent dstro.ed the , Per SanneI : le airing 'fOr! Bi1bto' • •

X OFFICES USED BY NEST BREMEN

(1)Hata des Reiches; lierclentorwall, .BreMen :offices. (? identical witfi. (2) below).

„"(2) f, Kriegsmarine'lL.enststaUe, HaUs 49.p Rihes ichteWeg 7; ,,Brecen

•head ..offiaCs and Ig labOratorY of Nest Bremen:

"seevag offic3eS • Sedverkers-und-Navigationsbuero, VTachtstrasseE27-29, Bremen •- BISCHOFF t s offices and N/T school.:(Formerly BISCHOFF s business premises.)

,Ludendorfstrasse Drethen ..(bcr.bed earIY in the *filar)and Poatfp.ati . 2.37, Bremen,

Offices used by CRI1211 ir+ DiS14on.,,

Ci.a Comorcio IberiO Ultratarine Las, (01BUL)Rua Eugenio dos . Santos .2730, 'Lisbon.,

Offiees used GRnat (undori alias Sr. Don Harald'GRJ1SSHQFF •taltadtid

Calle de ,Rafael Calvo 42-1°, Madrid,Telephone Number .of . •Nest DreMen, - 29216.

, Feldpostnu-Tler of Nest Bremen - 33039.

(3)

(4) "Interfraco" (Internationale Frachticontor) .

MEER= 4 NEST IMEN /LENTS

2300 - 23992600 7 26994.800- 4S99

and accdrding to an unconfirraed source in the following additional series also

2000 2099• 2100 - 2199

2200 2299

XII APPRE0 I.A2 ION

AgetitS Cont,rolled by Nest . Br. e4. en were allotted identgio.0:tion =abetsin the fol.16Wing series:

}Test Brom& a achievements. were undoubtec113r considerable during Pillterai a

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•terim of office as Leiter, although the ultinate value of the intelligeTho-eProcured cannot be 'judged. tPHEIFFER showed , great initiative, Was ex•-tronely industrious and sustained considerable enthns iasta for his workThe succeeding Leiters lacked inspiration and indeed, most of the goodqualities shown by PHEIPFER, and DRIEBSEN in particular .giive the appear-ance of being entirely apathetic towards his duties. •

The development of agent networks after PBEIFFER I s departure in May1914.0 'Ens achieved largely by Virtue of the extensive business connectionspossessed by DENSMIIN and the industry à.nd intelligence which BISOHCFFbrought to ,his work, but both these officers lacked the authority and ex-perience ofTHEle.blIK. Had they posviesedthese qualities; and had 13.17SIEZINbeen less pre-occupied 1,7ith his own business interests, they would. no doubthave been able to carry mit the various project's, notably in France andthe Iberian Peninsula, with a greater neteUre of success.

Another factor which handicapped. the Nest s undertakings was the poorstandard Of- its agents, a disadvantage reflected in the niajority thr theAbwehr and . iiilo-amt undertakings5 lany of the agents possessed. a lowdegree of intelligence, and. almost all worked for mercenary rather than •ideological notiVes. As more and more non becane incorporated in Germanytsarmed. foroes the hice of recruits available to the Nest becane increasinglYsmaller and the recruits were not of the type to neke enterprising or loyalagents.

The bistox7 of Nest Bremen show i a gradual ,but continUal declinesucceas and enterprise .which datea from the auttimn of l912, when the•GIOVANNI network was liquidated by the Portugbese

Never'the1ess4 in its primary futation, that of collecting naval and•8hipping intelligence on behalf of Abtei1ung fl Nest Bremen, conspicuousamong_ Abwehrstellen operating against the Western Al.iies, achieved resultsof value and won considerable credit for its 14:alders:

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Registry

7erner RCEEKEFrl. WRIING

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PresseWirtschaftsbeftagungsdienst

KeLt. CARL SM. BISCHOFF

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saf. scammutimat saf.

Schiffsbefragt.mgsdienst Ilicounts (ZF)

Sdf. T:Talter PRICYSdf. Karam:mac-GRUEN -MEE

NEST BREMEN ESTARLISHLIENT 1939-1940

-LeiterDeputy'

Assistants

- Secretary

Dr. .Brich PHEIFFER: Major Hamm,Sdf. Dr. Nikolaus BENSL1ANN

( SIC. Johannes BISCHOFF: Frl. S4LINSKI

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- Maj. AUCENER (Leiter)Sdf'. HENSMANN'Frl. Hilda =MORI' (secretary)

k.±,-6 -. KLAM (Leiter) H-ptx: 174074.1.1 .4Leiter) Sdf ..,. SCH1ERENHECK Lt. ESTOR1,1'K.Lt. CARL 2 civilian TVT Walter HOEFIG,K.Lt. Ilfil11ACIM. crperatoraSIC. SCIITIEJANNAugest. AL=

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Transport” Gua.

2 civilians 1 cOrpOral.

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H

Hpt. Adolf DR1ESSENEduard ALBREGTT

Hpt. =aim Hpt. BLSCBDFF - HOE1.IG

K.Lt. BENSMANN

NEST BREMEN ESTABLISMENT FEBRUARY 19)4

Loiter :K.K. Hans CARLSecretary : Fri. SCHWOEBMANN

IM

Leiter K.Lt. LIHRMAMER&if. BISCHOFF

IVOLt. ADDICESsaf. GRIM

I Luft

Ii

I g Accounts'

Sdf.. Dr. HERMANN Sdf. SCHIERENERIK Sdf. BISCHOFF Walter FRICKEUffz. MEM Walter HaEFIG Uffz. WULFFGefr. OMEN

Registry

Werner RaLZKE

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Major lagiaiSIESSEN

ALM=

j■IEST flR .ES914.*TaSHMENT liFICEMBER. 1944

, -I:Li aison with G-eatapo E."

Krim.Asst. HARMON

Leiter Major DRIESSEN

I Marine Ii• 8c Miscellaneous I duties

•: 'Dr. Erich PHE NM': K.K...Hans CARL:": Maj. Adolf DRIESSEN

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NEST MEMEN PMSONNEL

Loitors: (1) October 1935-May 1940(2) May 1940-March 1943(3) March 1943-1945

11 Officials and subordinato Staff:

,4aLICKS, Lt. 4. SOO14M ARYS

Rittmoistor•ALBRECHT .Hpt. Eduard

• _Sdf. c!c15. ALTHOFF.'

ANDFM,- ,.0gofr.APNOLD, .A.UGNER, Major ':i'indroas

IM. 1940-Jan. 1944. Transforredto WilhOlmshavon.Ia.IN. 1941-Jan'. 1944. Lai ter THApril 43-Jan. 44. •Transforredto Ast Hamburg 111 in Bromen

- mi. 1939-May 1940. Transforrodto Brost with PHEIFFER.

- Secretary to FRICKE.- Loiter IH 1938-1940 or 41.

4-EaliSMANN;Sdf. kSeit.Dt. Dr.Nikolaus @

. DOC •!:+13tscHolip, Sdf. &Apt. Johannos

9.KIRCHENFUERSTH© ONKEL

•Frl. Anne•BOESE,BOMM, Alfred

- MOM; Waldomer,+BRINKER,Agefr.'ERUENY,.Frl. Antoine

• BUEDELMANN or DFZEIMANN

• CARL K.K: Hans.

CLAYTON, Egon CLAIRONTT. STEPHAN,

+MAHLHAUS, Hans GeOrg.'

+ .DiZIESSENi . .liaj.. Adolf Friodrich

DRUISFNEERG

ESTORFF, Lt.

+FRICKE, Sdf . . StabsintondantWalther Friodrich Hugo

+ GEIRUNG, Fri.

GERDESGERSDORF, Hilda

GIESCHEN, Fw.GRAOTSCH, Uffz.

▪ IM. Transferred to AustAntworp 1941.,

- 1938-1945.H •Succeasively inIL & .r.1, • and -specialist in oilindustry. •

- fl1.19384945.

- Socrotary . to BENSUANN939-1945.- Socretary'19380arly 1944.- EA courier for . BISCHOFF- SecrotarY. •

- IM until' C.- Army'driver:.',- Secrotary!and . later Ia Officer.

(Until 1945.)- Socretary ,

- Nost.Leiter 144 1940-March 1943;than appointed-Harbour Master',Marseilles.

Representative or head agent•

- Ruckwanderersbefragungsdienst,• 1942-July 2943 and Fob. 1944-

Dec. 1944. • ..- Appointed to III 15.2.41; and• Nest Leiter March 1945 until

the lend of war,.

• Leiter. Ig 19391940.

- 21% Aacouiant & Paymaster1939-945; •

Secretary to:PHEIFFER; trans.-.forrod:tö Bret.M7 1940.

Secretary "to.PHEIFFER; trans-ferred . to Prost May 1940..

Ogpfr.. 1-HOEFIG, Angostolltor Walter

IA.HOFRAT.

• 1-10MANN, Dr. Otto @

HOMEM.G , :a .

HUENEEEN

ILLIEES. , Dr..

+KASSNER, RIST @ KATZ @KARMANN, Erich

KAHLE, Uffz.KLAMPERMEYER

• KIJAPS, K.Lt.• KRE3S, Frau Thoa

KUEHL, Obit.KLUSSMEIER, Hpt.LANGER or LANGNER, Ogefr.

•• LAUSM, Fri. 'LEMU I S LEHMANN , Ogefr. .•LINDMIANN g LANGE

+ LUMS , Erich @ BECKER

Erich- Loiter Not Bremen, 1937-May 1940.

GRIM, Hans Friedrich• @ GIOVANNI @ Don Harald

GRASSHOFFGRUHN Sdf.i& Lt.

HAMENS, Maj.

HAWMJANZ, Ogofr.HARTUMN, Krim.Ass. & Ger.

••■

Th

7 IM head agent in,Milan1939-1940; head of Poninsulanetworks 1940-1944.

• IM & Schiffaberagungsdionst;transferred to Aust Antworp1942.

- DoputSr Loitor (?) 1939-1941.• Also Ia official.

•- Liaison official botwoon Not

Broman & Gostapo c. 1942-spring 1945. Previously.attaahod to Nest Sept. 1939-114y.1940.

- ZF. Assistant to FRICKE.• Ig. January 1939-1945. Instructor

in SA &microphotography.Photographer. worked forStelle'Roland & Dulag Nor.BENSMANN's ohiof'agent recruiter,1939-45. '

- Contact of BENSUANN in Milan,used as cover-address for agentsin U.S.A.

- Chauffeur.

- Important agent recruiter forEMISMANN.

- W/T operator and courier.

- Ii. W/T.instruotor..1- Army driver.: .• -- Loit.wift. 1939-1944.▪ Rogistry,- IM, 1939-1942.- Ia (1942). •- Hoad.of W/T . schooi,. 1945-s.

194).'Secretary. :•

W/T inStrutt6r 1943- .• ii W/Tinstrwtor 1943-- Ii. Instructor in morso and

1944-45.

alD or t D I CKI2MUELLER .

OTERUETMONNEN, Wilfrod .@ OTTO

- Courier for BISCHOFF.- Chauffeur.

- Interrogator.- Ii. W/T instruct6r.

• :.•,PFLUECBERPHEIFFER, Fref.Kpt. Dr.

DOCTOR @ EDERHOFSPThILMANN P-PANNHORST etc.

FRAMANN, Uffz.PRUEN, Fraul.,neo

LEOHTENERINK

REama RETTER i Ogefr.REICHENIERG,,Kari.HEIMANN or REIMANN,'Uffz.

W/Tinstructor.secretary.to . 'DENSMANN. Traria-

• forrod to Ast.the Haguo.

Ii. Assistant tojiINUEMANN.- In Marseilles 1941.

W/T

• ' .4

a

Or I Werner

I ROSSBACA, Offz..OttoADESSMIER

SCHIERENnECK, Sdf.. WilhelmSCHTRUER

SCHLTE, Lt!. Dr.• SCHNELL Fri. •+ SCHUCHMANII, Sdf.

•.Hoinri6100. SCHROEDER• SOHWcB, Fri. DICTJBSICIC;

Ftl.'SZELINSKI„.F1.

+ TECKLEMDORG, Frl. Beatrix

UHLNACHM ; K .Lt

UTHE, Lt:z.See & Sdf.

VOECK, Frau Inge '•

+WRIZIAU, Hpt.

WULFF, Uffz.

- Head of Nest Registry until . .1944; trained as W/T ins•tuotorand sent to St. Joan de Tillz Stollespring 1944. Sept. 1944 .4.ans-ferred to M.FAK60.

W/T instructor.

- 1i. Loiter W/T sehool, & Ipi . .1939,4broh 1943. •

- Sooretary in,IMi.- IM. Transferred to Nest Brest

summer 1940. •- Secretary.- Seoretary.'•- Agent recruiter.- Secretary.- Sooretary.

. .- Secretary tolORIESSEN libroh 1943-

April 1945.

- Th1, 1939-1940. Leiter I10.1940-l42 .. Died 1943. •

- . TM until 1942. Viansfethred'te,Norway. • •

• Secretary 4 Registrar.

- loiter I Luft 19394941, when. transferred to Ast Hamburg, •

RO

=_War Room notified of arrest.)•. • .• '

MAIN SOURCES.

K.K..Erioh FUEIFFER, P1:46,969.Sdf. Johannes*BISCHOFF, FF.601,785

• Sdf. Nikolads BENSUNN I FF.602,110

w.u.c.i/c.5 .2.46.

Distribution: Standard for Liquidation Reports.

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