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SECRET39. Another person whom Subject met in Berlin was named LUCAS, a French- man who was employed in a radio shop in Berlin. LUCAS became an associate of Subject and helped Subject by stealing various spare parts, for the purpose of setting up the radio station. LUCAS was also instrumental in bringing about Subject's downfall. LUCAS had met a young lady in Berlin. She was a Belgian national and said that she had a fiance in Paris whom she had not seen for some time. She asked for help in going to Paris, and Subject was to meet her in the Cafe Truf in Berlin. Subject eventually met her and told her that he (Subject) would make her some false documents, to enable her to get to Paris. A meeting was arranged for the next day, at which time she was to bring a passport and a photograph and transmit to Sub- ject. She did not show up at the appointed hour and place. Subject waited for a short time and then went to the railroad station, accompanied by his girlfriend, Astree SCHMIDT (NR-IRD), and his partner in blackmarket activ- ities, KATZ. The platform was empty, except for the girl Subject was to meet. Subject addressed her and asked her why she had not kept the appoint ment, and she replied, "You are going to be arrested." At this moment the German Police converged on the platform where Subject, SCHMIDT, and KATZ were standing, and arrested then.40. Subject stated that on this day he was leaving on a trip to Paris and had brought along four suitcases containing radio parts, pistols, am- munition, inks, printing equipment, cameras, and various paraphernalia necessary for the manufacture of false documents. The police took Subject back to his hotel and searched the apartment, where they found more equip- ment and photographed everything. After that, Subject was taken to the police station, where he was separated from his friends. The arrest oc- curred on either 21 or 22 February 194 at approximately 1127. Subject recalls the time, because the only day train to Paris left at about that hour.41. Subject stated that the previous evening he had suffered an ac- cident on his hand. He had found a small phosphorous bomb and was un- screwing the detonator, when it blew up and cut off several of Subject's fingers. At the police station, Subject was treated, medically. Subject was interrogated for a period of approximately eight months. In the beginning, he was interrogated every day, and he admitted to the following crimes: Subject stated that he did engage in making false documents and that he was endangering the security of the German Reich, and was charged by the police with espionage and of conducting intelligence with the enemy. Subject did not specifically admit to these two charges, but kept up the police interest in his case by evasive answers. Subject was condemned to death, but before the sentence could be carried out Subject was liberated by the entry of the American Army, on 12 April 1945.42. Subject had been an inmate of the German prisons in Tegel, Plotzen See, Hanover, and Wolfenbutten. Subject stated that he believes the plans for his execution were delayed because of a scheme that he devised to in- terest the authorities in him. Subject stated that he advised the Germans that he was the inventor of a motor which could be run on hydrogen.10