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REF ID4~4:C~95°'A""PA/cf-I(/~ 

II. LOG-, INCLL':DTNG SIGNALS 

IIL DE'.i.'AILEJJ 'l.'ARGET REPOP.1'8 

TIOOM 

17JU'.1y 1945 

Dir: tribut j_o::-i: ~£·-...a....-.-. 

'r 

·- Director. 

D.D.3. 

D.D.4. 

D.D.(N.S.) 

. D.D.(A.S.) 

A.Do'(c.c.R.) (2) 

Lieut.Col. Leathern 

'-~ Chairma..."1 

3.A.G .. (2) 

Cdr. Bacon ., 

CCl.r.. riiac ke:azi.e 

· Cdr. 'l'andy 

Lt. Col. Johnson 

Lt.Cdr. :Manson 

Major Seaman 

Lieut. Eachus 

Lieut. Vance 

Captain Cowan 

Lieut. Fehl 

TICOM :B1iles (4} . ; 

No. of Pages 23 

·u ":§~~ 

' I uP~20-·G (2) (via Lt. Pendergrass) 

G-~·2 (via Lt.Col. Hilles) · 

S. S,.A. (2) (via Major Seaman) 

Di!'8c.tor, S.I.D. El'OUSA (via Lt. 

Col. J oh.1'1Son) 

Declassified and approved for relea~e by NSA on 11-05 2014 pursuant to E.O. 1352e .' 
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SECT I.ON I. 

The following personnel _constituted Team lt- as it lef't .:Englrmd: 

Lieutenant Cormnander I:Ioward Campaigne, U.S.N.R~ 

Lieutenant ~relyn ·Talbot-Ponsonby, R.N. V .R • 

. Lieutenant 0hristopher Huntington, U.S.N.R • 

. Corporal A.G. Abel, Royal Signn.ls; s.c .. u. 8 • . ·and one Dodge 6 x 6 1t~ton truck. 

The original purposes of the trip ·were: 

1. To contact Lieutenant Drayton Phillips, U.S.N.R., at Lindau,, 

exploit his target and bring. back the material he had 

already colle'cted;. 

2. To vlsit Innrain 9 in Innsbruck and make sure tho.t 

· exploitation was complete; 

3. To make sure that the Ins ti tut Prof!essor Vierling was 

properly, covered; 

4. To join up with the N.I.D. 30 A.U. team in that area, ond 

visit with them the following_ list of targets: 

.(o.) FUESSEN (Bavnri11) 

Naval Exper:i.mentn.J.· Statioy{ possibly working on one man submarine 

experiment reported on the Aln.t See~* · 

(b) ~ZBURG 

-S IV/3 is here (acoeptonce auth~rity for mining and ba:r:Tage 

equipment for firms in Baden)•* 

Engineei:i.ng School for amphibious operations.* . ' 

(d)+LINZ-DONAU 

Artillerie Wn.ffenkormnando Linz n.t Linz Donau, Hafenstrasse 1n.. 

(e) LOFER 

Experimental Station for V~weapons and chemicals reported at 

GSGS 4416/Y.7/702966, in depression between· the Ochsenhorn and 

Breithorn mountains*(part_ of the Loferer Stein Berge). 

(f) STEP.HANSKIRCHEN (Near Rosen!leim GSGS 4416/XG/3227). 

Part of experimental station for Peenemuende transferred here, 

to "Teillager .des Fllikparks XI, Roser..hei.i:i". ' 

(g) STOCKDORFERWALD (s. Of Munich) 

Large underground research institute reported between Gauting 

and Planegg, m. the Murich-Walheim railway, and 4 kms. to 

the East of the small village of Stockdorf. 
·f 

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(h) +IBI.iAND CF MAINAU (Bcde11se0) . ' ' 

Experimental Station from ,Pesnemu9:1de evacu&ted here. 

No.val Torpedo Experimental Station •. 

( j) G.AID1ISCH-P P.RTENKIRCIUN * - ·- / 

Installations and personnel from Peenemuende (Target alreaey 

visited). 

· ( k) .£13I!Rfil,£;if::1Jdl.FEN 

' 

(a) 

(b) 

(1) MUNICH 

Expe:::-i:men-tal Station on Lake Consta.-ice - liquid propellant 

f 1uels for rockets and engines, * 

Maybn.ch Motorenbau ~ U-Boat pro·ts. * 

~~~ (c) 

Secret do01,;;:i:J.ents of Daimler Benz in. the Francis:t:aner Kell~* 

Firr:i.a· Linde r.!.8.king llq.J.i.c1 cxyge~-'- .y;:-oduction ecrJ.ipme:lt.""' 

Dr. Rhode of Schwa:cz, Tassiloplai;z., .!1/un:~ch 9, Ma1r.ing 

infra-red apparatus,. * 

(d) Forsonungsansi;al·b de:c dsutscl1en Re:.,-:~1c:;nr1ort, Munich 19 

Waissenham>str. l+ • . MDki_:ng !3(oci.J,'Ch ree8~.ve:r- aerials, . n.nti;-

radar equipment, et•J, 

(e) Stoekicht den:l.~n go~:r-.L~'.'.g fo:~ tu.:::obl~.~es ]:'o:t.' Wo.Uer~)oote· • 

. (o)-t;8flJ~ZB~G . 

(a) Obe:rste ·Bau..l_ei tung (Naval rada::') 

(b) Ve'.!'.'Wr.il hu•..gsgesellschaf·t. Makl:;1g pro:r.::i.ni.i"L:y fuses for 

, guiJed inissilez.* · 

(n) ~ (6 ko,<;. East of Ravensburg, · ~lear Lake Constence) 

Liquid oxygen prodtiction pla.'1.'~f .. 

Liquid oxygen production plant at Sueddeutsch~ Kalksticktof~Jr~e -:. A.G. 

(p) ·!WOLF-GANGS~ (Near Inru~bruck). ------- . 

S~V.K. Brru1ch Station 

(q)+GRUNDELSEE (Near Aussee Linz, Austria)· 

--= ' -

C.P. V.·A, Laboratories. . ·' 

(r) +]fil!.LSBER_Q. (Near Linz) · • 

' . d . . * Sper;.."Waffen .A;'.'.·senal, contaJ..ning epth oharge.J . and magnct19 mines. 

One. or t-v·m naval depai·tme;:1ts evacuated here from Berlin, including Hydrogrc;.phic Printing, wj.Lin.11. n;.ay cc::!tain duta on Japan.* 

Dr. Por.sche anCi sb.ff e-;racuated horc fro!'.l. Stuttgart."' 
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' The TeaE1 was to be n.ugm.ented at .Wiesbaden by Captn.in M::i_Joolm Howgate, 'I.e., 

who had gone there with some prisoners earlier, and at Pl;i.ris by Corporal Bigg:tn, 

Royn.l Signals, with the radio set "VALET". · 

The earlier part of the trip was t~ken up largely with clearing. the Team 

with various authorities, first at Paris wi ~h S.I.D. ETOUSA · · 

then at Wiesbaden with 12th .ArmY Group 

then at Frankfurt with SHAEF, Naval 1L'arget Subdivision 

then at Heidelberg with T-section, 6th .Army Group 

'then aJc L!ndau with French 1st Ann~e, Section T. 

theri at Fre:i.si."lg with th~ Intel;ligence. Center, 3rd llriny 

and later at Saluburg with II' Gorps, ~~2 

The ~arlier objectives were disposed 'of in ~he following ways: 

1. · At Non."'lenhorn near Lindau. Lieutenant. Phillips was conta~ted, 

and a box of dopuments collected from him. It appeared . 

that they had come from Innsc~~:ilck, and that two of the 

or-.i.gincil: purposes ·of the trip were really one. 

2. Innrain 9 in Innsbruck was visited nevertheless, and.found·to 

·be in very bad condition. It. had already been visit~d by 

seven or eight different parties,· and previous to that had 

been set afire and then wet by the fire department. 

Although supposedly exploited, there was some doubt that. 

there might not be things there of value. Consequently 

the Teru:i returnea by way of Innsbruck and collected all the 

remaining material vrhich might .conceivably be of interest, 

le.avlng behind only that which .was already known or was 'in 

unusable condition. · 

3. Lieu-tenant ·colonel Schroter, who wa·s tci' be contacted either 

in Paris or in Wiesbaden, was missed at both places (he 

skipped Paris and left Wiesbaden three days befbre the Team 

arrived). ,Radio enquiries assiTed us. that Vierling was 

being taken care of, so Terua 4 dropped the matter. 

4. Lieutenants Besant and Coggin of N.I.D.30·A.U •. were met at 

Frankfurt with two trucks and a jeep and five other ranks. 

Lieutenant Commander Riley of N. T .• S. had the list of 

targets annotated as above (an asterisk means that the 

target had been visited at least once). Thereai'ter · 

Lieutennnts Besant and Coggin considered themselves 

attached to Team 4. Their orders expired on 30th June, 

but were extended on request.. On the return trip 30 A.U. 

l'eft Team 4 nt In.Tlsbruck. The t'argets 011 their: list 

which are marked with + signs were visited by Team 4. · . "'" - . ' 

Other' objsctives werf:i assigned by radio .. · The first wa~ to senrch the 

Schliersee area for traces of the archives of OKW/Chi. This was done very 

thorotighly with the help of a member of the Bavarian mountain police. Later 

the Team was directed to locate five persons of Oberst Boetzel's sta~f. 

This jo'Q .was only- begun when qrders cane to return to England. 

Details of these movem~nts can b~ found in the, attached log (See Section 

II). Particulars of individual investigations are appended to the log (See 

Section I'.\:I). 

In general every area visited W.flS being covered adequately either by 

special groups sent to particular targets, or by the routine organisations of 

Amy G~2, Division 'S-2,. C.I.C., or Military Government. Ih particular, 

however, Innrain 9 was·not being coveredcoopletely from the Sigint point· of 

view, . nor had the authorities at Schliersee heard of Dr.· Schaedel or OKW 

offices. It was 'at these two targets tha·t Terun 4 was able ·to conduct investigations the results· of which, e\'en thcugh largely negative, were more sub~ 

sta.ntial than those the rogular at~tho:riti6s were able to provide. 

'· 
REF ID:A4148495 

SEGRE I - 4 

SECTION II L 0 G 

Thursday, 14 June through Monday, 18 June~ War Station to Wiesbaden 

Party, consisting of Lieutenant Commander Campaigne, Lieutenant TalbotPonsonby, -Lieutenant Huntingt('":n, and Corporal Abel (driver), crossed the 

Cha."'.triel by LST (Embarcation: '.I.'illmry), and proceeded to Wiesbaden -by way of 

Paris, arriving. there Saturday e-ven~.ng. Cbtain:Lng billets in Paris was 

difficult and time-consmni:ng for the reason that the crders issued by SHAEF 

contained no mention· of Paris 1 a:nd it we.s sclely aB the result of :j:.ieutenant 

Corn.."'lallder- Campaigne's pers:Lstent p:ceser.tation of his ooze to Com..Z that that 

author.1. ty c.onr:;ent·ea. to billet the c-ffice:~s in Ca:cl·1;o:i. ~ s Hotel, :Montmartre, 

ana. thP. dr:.'L'··e:t:· at· the Hotel Ter·['.sse, Avenue Grana~ Armee. The visit to 

Paris wa:3 nea2esa::.."'y for two aimE:., both carried out: 

1. To rick l:l.P SGU ';VALE'.1111 , operated by qocyoral Biggin, I..:oyal 

Signalc; 

2. To report to Director, S. I.D. ETOUSA, before proceeding. 

in addition, three further considerations made a visit ·t;o Pe.ris desirable: 

•' 

1. To consult with Captain Flm1, U.S.N., a"!Jout the extent of 

. Naval target ·ezploi tation peJ:-formed py Lieutenanb 

Fhl.ll:l.ps, U. S .l'~ "n", U ~ S. Nava.J. LiEdson Officer with 

the French Navy at Lir!.d.aur · · . 

2. To asti:i.bl:i.sh contact L? possible with L:~sute:nar~t Colonel 

Soh7.'oter, B::i:-i ti sh Ai:m...v (Mo A.:P.) ~ :1..n ccimection with 

Forch.ho:l..n tar3et (l':C"of'esso:~' Vie;r'l:Lng); 

3. To pick,up annotated list of targets frora Lieutenant 

Commander Riley, R. N. V .R.: , to be visited by the 

30 A. U. Team ordered to join us,. 

Captain Fin'n 'inf91"I!led us that Lieutenant Phillips had a bo~ of captured 

documents to. be turned over to us 8..'1d, requested that we lee.ve an inventory of 

the contents with Lieutenant.Phillips to be sent to Captain Finn. 

So far·as we could determine, Lieutenant Colonel Schroter had not called. 

at S.I.D. ETOUSA. Major Eldridge told us that in his opinion, Pi-o~essor 

Vierling was a man who much exaggerated his own importance, eithe:r unwittingly 

or deliberately. · · · 

Lieutenant Commander Riley had alreaq.y left Paris (i.E!. Versailles) for 

Frankfurt. 

Party spent Sunday night at' Verdun and arrived 1600 Monday at Wiesbaden, 

'where Captain Broggini of 12 A.G. G-2 put us in contact with Captain Howgate, 

I.C., henceforth a member of the Team. · He had come to Wiesbaden after com- , 

pieting a previous assignment '(see Section III, Hepo:rt 1). · 
REF ID:A4148495 . 

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Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Heide112_<>,Eg 

Wies bad.en: 

. Major Johnson-Ferguson; a British Liaison Officer with G-2, told us 

that Lieutenant Colonel Schroter had proce8a.ed via :F'ra.nki\1rt +,o Fo:i:•chheim 

three days ago. 

Fra."":lkfurt : -

.. - '" . Reported to· Lieutenant McMahon,. U.SoN.H., .N,T.S., SHAEF, and jo:l.ned 

with N.I.D.30 A.U. Tea.~ in his offlco. 30 A.U. Teai.n. CQnsisted of Lieutenant. 

Besant, R.N. V.R. and Di~utenant Coggin, R.N~V.R., w;i_·i;h 5 other ranks. . 

Lieu·i:;enant Cc:r.1!113.nder Riley, R.N. V .Il. supplied the e..-:-;.notated list of targets 

to be. visite·i by 30 Au U. in conjur..c_tion vr:l.·i;h us; . . 

Called on Colonel Mattison, U.S.A., who gave us informa.'tion outlined 

in "LER 811 , 2.3 Juno. _ 

Also. called on the following: Colonel Scott and his assistant, Colonel 

Broiivn, of wl1om only the latter was in; Group Qaptain Soott-Fru:nie,. who was 

not, in~ Lieutenant Cornmand.er Abbott, U.S.N.R. 

~delber~: · 

Arrived ·2230, billeted by 6th A.G. 

SIGNALS OUT: 

OLSU/SII 330 TICOM v OAlvIPAIGNE 

(A) At Frankfurt with 30 '.A.U. 

(B) Leaving to-night for Heidelberg. Will be on· air at 0600Z on 

Thursday 21 June. -

(c) SCHROTER gone from here to FOR~IM. 

later if you think it desirable. 

OLSU/SH 331 - TICOM v HOWGATE 

We will go there 

(Sent_ 19/6) 

Delivered civilians to Captain Lockwood Saturday 9/6. Lockwood 

knew nothing about civilians but received them and gave me 

receipt. . ,I insisted they be under guard while .with him 

(Sent 19/6) 

,!lcdnesday, · 20 June: Heidelberg to Ueberlingen 

Obtained 6th A.G. passes for French 1st Army area from Colonel Fr8.nkel 

in Heidelberg and drove via·Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Tuebingen, and Ludwigshafen 

to Ueberlingen on the Lake of Constance. Billeted ih hotel requisitioned 

by the French. 
.e 

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REF ID:A4148495 

6 -

.• - Thursday, 21 June: Ueberlingen to Lindau (Kressbronn} ·.:1· . ·.:.·· , 

~ .. "VALET" met first. schedule, · ObOOZ. 

::·. ~ 

Proceeded to Lindau and reported to Liaison Alli~ (Colonel Swett,- U.S.A., 

and Captain Charles, U.S.A.) who put us in touch with-Lieutenant Phillips, 

U.S.N. Liaison Officer. Lie~tenant PhiJ,.lips arranged with the French to 

req~isition a house in Kressbronn for our billets and to include ns in the 

mess at "Section T-Marine" ·(Lieutenant Juin), 'also at Kressbronn • 

SIGNALS' OUT: 

LER ONE 

At lfEBEPLINGEN·Rpt UEBERLINGEN forty miles from LINDAU. Pa~y 

consists of Team Four with truck plus two officers and five· 

enlisted men of Th:}.rty Able Uncle with two light trucks and 

one jeep. Will skip the twelve hundred Zed schedule ·t9_.day 

and be back on prescribed schedule at eighteen hundred Zed 

• 

to-night. Pass to War:e. 

(TOO, 210001/6) 

LER 2. - r+1ICOM.from C.AMPAIGNE 

1. At LINDAU. 

2. Doc~ents . s~en. ' · 

.. 

:3. Can not· rpt not read y01.1r signals 

I 

(T00.211845/6) 

SIGNALS IN: 

• 

TOO. 201816 !TIN 1. 6l · ) TOO. 201822.. Tlli 17 . ) TOO~ 210953 TIN 18 . ) 

Too:210902 (cancelled). } 

unreadable until after a.ITival of 

TIN 19, late evening o·f 21st, 

since enciphered. on book not held 

by us. 

TIN 16 - C.AlvIPAIGNE for actiqn from TICOM · 

Your OLSU/SH 330 received. Not rpt not known here .whether you 

sav1 ELDRIDGE· in PARIS or SCHROTER in FRANKFURT, and if so what 

i:hforma:tion about FORCHHEilil elicited from them.. Will signal 

you instructions when we hear from you whether machinery exists 

and what types. I · 

(T00.201816) 

Till 17 .. CAMPAIGNE from TICOM 

I 

Please ask HOWGATE what type of arrest M.ARBURG civilians are . ' being.held under. . (TOO. 201822)' 

TIN 18 .. ' C.AivIP .AIGNE from TIC01f 

HELLERhas.reported VIERLING and ScHROTER situatio~ at,EBERMANNSTADT 

. now in hand. Ignore this target. 

(T00.210953) 

/ 

DON 93 - f~om WAP.E 

1 • Callsigns. for JULY are to be those used for Aprll. For 

.August those u.Ecd for May, . arn..1 fo:r. September those used. 

for ,.}"::me,, 

. (i.I'(J!:::.i "2 "i ·-~ ( 1C)6) 

-· . ~ .. 

' 

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~ REF ID:A4148495 

Fridcw, 22· June: Lindau (Kress~ronn) 

Obtained French 1st,.Anny clearance for Bodensee area with help of:-

Commander Slater and Colonel Swett. Vfoited Main.s.u (See Section III, 

Report 2) ~ 

.§I.9l!ALS OUT: 

LER 3 

Your reencodements of TIN ~6, 17, 'l8 received and understood. 

Also TIN 19 a!J.d DON 93. .Answers foll:::.w :t:n ne:>:t schedule. 

('.1'00.220611) 

Our T00.220611 is LEE 3 not; rpt not 2. 

(T00.220647) 

LER 5 - from BESANT 

Repeat to NAN TARE SUGAR GEO...i:~E TWO f::EA.E.:!1 

Am u..-iable to make contac.t with fo:r.mation HOW' QUEEl'T. ·. Wai ting 

clearance for·BoDENSEE district. Pl.ease pass to THIRTY 

ABLE UNCLE 

(T00.2209.47) 

LE.R 6 - . TICOM from CAMF.AIGNE 

HOWGATE reports: ' 

1. When he left IV'i.ARBuRG on tenth June civilians were in billet 

• under security guard. 

2. LCCKWOOD had no orders at that time either for reception or 

disposal of above civili.ans but he surmised orders were 

delayed. I 

(T00.221215) 

LER 7 

1 • ELDRIDGE seen at PARIS.· SCHROTER had left FRANKFURT 3 days 

.before we arrived. ELDRIDGE says VIERLING does not claim to . have machinery but :makes sweeping claims about what he has 

invented. Two men have been killed i.rivestigating his stuff. 

2. DON,93 para. 2 YES. 

(T00.221320) ' 

SIGNALS IN: 

HIT 1 . 

As VALET appea.;- to be operating with BARON's pads, we shall in 

1'utu:re sond HIT series instead. of Til\TS i11 reply to your LERS. 

(T00.221002) 
~. 

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• 

Saturday,' 23 June: . Lind'au (Kress"bron..'1.) · 

,~rtd ,~):~sited Grafenhausen, Bregenz; and Dornbirn (Se.e Section III~· !lepoJ:"t~ 3 

SIGNALS OUT: 

LER 8 

1. MATTISON gave us following information: .GOTTLOB BERGER, -- ·_ 

former SchutzStaffel Hauptamt official in charge of Allied 

, prisoners, kept special cOi"....munications link going BERLIN 

:; aua. BHEGENZ after surrender. ··Brig.Gen., VANAMAN at St • 

. GEillVI.AIN could advise whe·cher BERGER r.ow worth inte~ogating. 

' DERG-ER is held at AUGSBURG. . . 

2. MATTISON could not ,contact VA.J."'if.AW:..AJ.'l while we were in 

:BRANKF'u'RT. Promised to inform 'l'ICOM if he got further , 

· info:mation. As his contact with V.AJ'ii.AH1A1'if possibly still 

tmsuccessful, suggest BIGrIER check with V.A.NJllWf. 

(Note: No co:r.ment on this signal was ever 

' (T00.230815) 

reoeived) ', 

LER 9 

1. MAIN.AU NEUSTADT .BREGENZ w..d DOR."r\IBIRN visited. 

' 

2. Leaving here Monday for FREISING for tnird Arnzy- clearance. . 

(TOO. 231725) 

SIGNALS .1!£: 

HIT 2 C.AlvIPAIGNE from TICOM 

LER 6 and 7 receiv~d. Many thanks~ (T00.230930) 

Sunday! 24 June: Lindau (Kressbronnl 

·' Visited Lieutenant Phillips and examined materiai he had collected fro~ 

Innrain 9, Innsbruck. Visited acoustical research station at Tunau (See 

Section III,. Report 5). 

SIGNALS OUT: 

In transit to-morrow. Will not rpt not meet schedules for twe11ty 

fiv~ J~e. Wi~l be on air at 0600.26th. Pass to Ware. 

(T00.241950) 

SIGN.PLS IN: 

.HIT 3 - . C.ATuIPAIGNE fro~ TICOM 

1. NUELSEN reports archives of OKW/CHI are in care of Dr. SCHAEDEL 

at Bacl SCHASERSEE 80 ID:i. South of MUNICH. 

2. Cannot locate place here and. have signalled. NUELSEN for report. 

3. Will eend you exact lo~ation when known. Meanwhile st1md by 

for investigation ·of archives by your tea..1!. 

(TOO. 21:-13.37) 
• REF ID:A4i4B495 

9 -

\ 

~Yi 25 June: Lindau (Kressbronn) to I::msbruck 

. . 

Picked up box of Innrain· documents from Lieutenant Phillips and proceeded via Arlberg Pairn. to Irinsb!"'llck, arri·J"ing ther,3 2000.·, Billeted in 

Sonnenburgerhof, on' road to Brenner Pass. 

_Tuesday; 26 June: Innsbruck, Kufstein, Freis:ing, Schliersee 

. ' ._ 

Visited· Innrain 9 (See Sectir;:n III, Report 10) in morning. Lieutenant 

Commander Campaigne, Lieutenant Besant, Captain.Haugate proceeded in jeep 

via Achensee to Schliersee, · Remainder of party, Lieutenant· Talbot-Pon~onby 

in, cha!'ge, ·proceeded to Schliersee via Kufste:in (See Se.ction III·, Report. 6). 

Billets arranged by Captain Howgate at Seehaus hotel, being U3ed as U.S. 

Arrey- Rest Camp; Lieutenant Commander Campa~gne and Lieutenant Besant visited 

},i1reising to obta±..-:'1 clearance for 3rd Anny area. ~ 

,. 

LER .11 · 

At Il\11SBRUCK awaiting yoLU' location of SCHASERSEE. 

(Too.260610) 

J_,ER 12 

1. INNSBRUCK INNR'.AIN visited. Report follows. 

2 .• Advance party at SOHLIErtSEE. Others with set.at KUFSTEIN. on 

way ·to SCHLIERSEE 

(T00.261210) 

LER 13 

·. 

Team at SOHLIERSEE. 

starts Wednesday. 

Target looks promising~ Full probe · 

(T00.261755) 

LER 14 

nrnRAIN NINE has many documents on the third floor in code room 

partly destroyed •. To s~arch these would take several days, 

In doubt whether we should take the time. As you know numerous 

people have gon~ through the'se before. LINDAU material which 

we ~ave came from IN.NRA:rn. 

(T00.261810) 

SIGNALS lli: 

HIT 4 CAMI?AIGN;E fer action from 'rICOM 

Now rpt now known from· KETTLER that Archives of OKW/CHr·were 

at no.u. SCHI.IE:n.GEE :l.t h~einning May. Please investigate. · • . . ('l'00.2,51620) 

'' 

.. 

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,.;. 10 

· WednosdayLgz June: Schliersee (See Section III, Jlgporl:; 7) 

Visited ·numerous'buildings in and near Schliersee, guid'3d by Hauptmann 

Kunz: two hospitals, a school, the freight yards in the morni_ug; FJ;·eu•lo1:1he1R• 

the Strandbad, the lake shore, the ''1''.L·e.1he1tsaktion Baye:c:n", aria -f<·rmer billet 

of Maj or Wedepohl in the ai'teruo1_,n. 

SIGNALS OUT: 

LER 15 

Radio has·been out of order. 

· SCHAEDEL not yet J_ocatea.. 

We are exploiting SCHLIEHSEE. Dr• 

(T00.271120) 

LE.2 16 

BESANT and COGGIN of THIRTY ASSAULT UNIT arc being delaye'1 by i.ls 

beyond their orders. Subrni t you square them 'With ADMIRALTY • 

. (T00.271201) 

Thursday, 28 June: SchJ.iersee (See .S.ection III, Report 7) 

Lieutenant Commander Campaigne,. Lieutenants Talbot-Ponscinby and Huntington, 

in company of Hauptmann Kunz, examined houses in the mountains near spitzingsee; 

.including Hinunler' s hunting lodge. 

Captain Howgate got a technician from 689th Battalion, ·Bayrischzell, to 

repair radio. 

Rowed along the edge of Schliersee looking for evidence of dumped documents • 

. . 

SIGNALS_.Q!!!: 

LER 17 

Still at SCHLIERSEE. 

inforrn:ation query. 

No trace of SCH.AEDEL. Do you have more, 

(T00.281130) 

LER 18 

Does BACON want HUNTINGTON to return immediately qu~y. 

(T00.281200) 

LER 19 

Your HIT 5. Many, thanks. 

(T00.281230) 

SIGNALS IN: - . 

HIT 5 CAMPAIGNE from TICOM 

Your LER 16: .Have _sqyared matter with Admira~ty.· 

(T08.281005) 
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Frida.v, 29 June: SchliEJrsee (See Section III, Report 7) 

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. Lieutenant Comr.iander Campaigne made ·auty call on Major Haupt of C..I.C. 

in Mie:sbach. · •' • I 

Lieut·enMt· Coggin visited Miesbach to interrogate a certain Brunner 

(whom·we had met at, F.A.B.)· about mine defences. 

Lieutenant Talbot .. Pon~onby and Captain Howgn.te investigated story of 

buried boxes near Bayrischzell • 

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§..IGN.ALS OUT : 

LER 20 

SCJiLIERSEE area virtually exhausted. 

n:id of· t~e Freihei tsaktion B8.;y·ern •. 

LINZ to-morrow. 

Have searched with the 

Propose to move on to 

(T00.290800) 

SIGNALS IN: 

HIT 6 CMIP AiGNE from TIC OM 

1 • Reference LER 17: , No further information • 

. 2. Reference LER 18: HUNTINGTON not required ~t present. 

(T00.291252) 

HIT 7 

SITREP 7 . 

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CAMPAIGNE from TICOM 

1. Interrogation party with Team 2 at REVIN has returned to.U.K, 

All prisoners except one being rele~sed 1n Gennany. 

2. Team 4 reached LINDAU on· 21st June ann moved thence to INNSBRUCK 

by stages. . Now ex,Ploiting SCHLIERSEE for Archives of OKW/CHI. 

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3. Interrogating Party with Team 6 returned to U.K. HUETTENH.A.IN 

and FRICKE being brought to U.K. for further detailed 

· interrogation. · / . 4. With effect froo 18th June TIC OM granted permission .to use 

DUSTBIN camp for interrogating oivilian internees. - .5. VIERLING Laboratory near NU'ERE1''IBERG has.been seized and frozen 

for exploitation by team of Allied technical experts, 

·(TOO. 291.328) 

Saturday, 30 June: Schliersee, Rose~im, .Salzburg, Linz . I 

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· Left Schlicrsee 09.)0~ J?icked up· rations in Ro~cnhG~x1,. stoppocl in Salzburg 

for clea;i:-.'l.nce with II Divisiqn, n.rrivcd Linz 1~00.;,· billeted: in Hotel Goldene 

Kanone. 

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LF.,R 21 • .. 

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En route- to LINZ via SALZBURG._. Will miss noon sohedule to-0.a.y. 

Will be on 'the air again at 1800Z. Pass to WA.~E 

(T00.300001) 

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LE'R. 22 

At L;CNZ. SCHLIERSEE" was e:xploi ted a$ tho±-onghly as· arg p18.b8 • 

we havq ever done. No rpt 'no results •. 

(TOO .. 30 fl JO) 

§2..nday, 1 Jui.y: Linz . . Vi site~ Hafenstrasse 1a (W11fferikomna11do) (See Section III.t Report 8), 

where 30 A.U; exp+oited a range-finde:::· in ex<;rnlient c<;mdition. Saw . 

Donauf'lotille in its basin; also air1-i·aid shelters .filled with tnuni tions. 

Visited Ebr:Jlsberg (S-pe:P:waff'enarsenal). 

byU.S.N. 

Target had already been visited 

SIGNALS OUT: 

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LER 23 

Leaviug Ln:rz for GRUNDELSEE F.trea. to-mar.row 

(T00.011725) 

SIGNALS IN: 

HIT -8 - CA1VIPA1GNE for action from TICO:M 

Part 1 

·TI COM still anxious to. p:i:ck up Oberstleutnant ·,l\NDRAE, Hau.ptmann . • 

GoRZOLLA, Oberleutnant. MORA.viETZ, Le11tnani; DETTMANN, and OberH1.spektor KUEH:ti. Requests through _usual cha.-i.."'lels have so far 

produced no results •. At your converiience could you track 

them down anci, report back to us at, once their ·present where- · 

abouts and activities. We will forward this info:hnatiofl: to , 

appropriate authorities for action. 

(1'00.011455) 

:!?a.rt 2 . 

All were mer.i.bers of Gen der Nachrlchtenaufklaerung under command 

of Oberst BOETZEL. Organisation was intact ~d originally in 

BAD GASTEIN area. Movea. north and was due to arrive in area 

of A.ALEN, fifty miles nort!;t of. ULM about 8th June. . Suggest' 

you con~act Gen. WURSTER or Oberst HEINRIOI Signals Officers 

for General WESTFALL, present-OK Sued. WURSTERS headquarters 

in early June near HOHENSCHAEFTLARN one five miles south of 

MUNICH. WURSTER most helpful and was at times in close· touc~ 

with BOETZEr;. . I 

(T00.011501) 

Monday, 2 July: Linz 2 Bad Ischl . . Left.Linz 0930, arrived Bad Ischl 1330~ billeted with 11th Annoured 

Division. Visited 11Grundlsee", actually Topli tzsee (See· Seqtion III, Report 9). 

SIGNALS OUT: 

• · LER 24 

Your HIT 8 understood; At BAD ISCHL. ' 

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Tuesday, 3 J"u1Y.: Bad-Ischl, Salzburg, Innsbruck 

. ~eft Bad Ischl 0930, arrived Salzburg 1200. . Le~rned from CfI.c. in 

Salzburg tha~ Targets there and in l;ofer· had already beeri cdve:t'ed by· 

Lieutenant H.V. _Greenough, Jr~, u.s.N.R~, whose reporl::s WG rof:i.A thro,~gh. 

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Arrived Innsbruck 2000. Billet8d Sonnenburgerhof. 

SIGNALS OUT: 

LER 25 

Leaving BAD, ISCHL.· Will miss noon schedule tocsday. · Back on 

air at 1800Z o Pass to WARE. 

(T00.0305.59) . LER 26 

At INNSBRUCK. 

(T00.031820) 

Wednesd~ l+ ·July: Innsbruck 

Found better billet?at the Grauer Baer, requisitioned by C.I.O., in the 

centre of the town. 

30 A.U. left to·report back to Eckenfoerde. TICOM Team 4 remaining 

consists of Campaigne, Ta.lbot-Ponsonby, fiowgatf.:!, Huntington, Abel (driver), 

Biggin (radio oi::erator), with Dodge truck and "VALET". · 

SIGNALS OUT: 

LER 27 

Renaining at INNSBRUCK. to finish INNRAIN. 

· left this morning for EC'i\JlliFOERDE. 

30 ·Advance Unit 

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I Innsoruck 

Exhausted Innrain 9 (See Section III, Report 10) and packed material in 

boxes obtained from German supply dump at· Hall. 

Learned.that French would taJce over all Tirol at 1200 on July 10. 

SIGNALS OUT: 

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LER 28 

Have exhausted INNRAJN NINE. Have an additional- two and ·a 

half boxes of documents probably trash. 0 

(T00.051150) 

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LER 29 

Your HIT 9: BESANT and party left yesterday for F.CKERNFOERDE. 

Terun four consisting of CAMPAIGNE, PONSONBY, HUNTINGTON, ' • ' 

HOWGATE, one truck, driver and opsrato:i.;". V=w .. ving INNSBRUCK 

FRIDAY f.or MUNICH area as per HIT k'~~t. ... . . : 

(T00.051245) 
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HIT 9 - For CAMPAIGNE from TICOM 

Could you give· us and N.I.D.30 an idea of your immediate as 

well as long range plans._· Reply earliest. 

(T00.050915) . I 

Friday, 6 .Tul.y: Innsbruck2 Hohenschaeftlarn, Starnberg 

. . 

After trouble with truck, requidng new spark piugs -and distr:lbutor (put 

in by 803rd :rviaint.enance Companyy, left Innsbruck 1230. 

Visited Hohenschaeftlarn and learned that General Wurster and entire 

staff had ~wt left within 'the hour for Landsber~, Consulted Control ... 

·commission at Pullach, who advised us to inquire at u.s.-British Ministerial 

Control at Leutstetten (Lieutenn..."lt Coionel Snyder, V .S.A.), who were, however, 

unable to help us. · ·On Lieutenant Colonel Snyder's advice, billeted _in 

Star.nberg. 

SIGNALS OUT : 

LER 30 • 

Leav_ing INNSBRUCK. 

eighteeh hundred.· 

Cancel noon schequle. 

Pass to WARE. 

o:h air again at 

(T00.060600) • It· 

LER 31 

At STARNBERG near 1'IUNICH. WURSTER has moved from HOHENSC~FL.ARN. Will miss noon schedule to""Ul.orrow. 

(T00.061735) 

SIGNALS IN: 

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- HIT 1 o· - CMIP AIGNE from TICOiVI 

Please return to UNITED KINGDOM with all members of team 

earliest. Please give earliest ~· T .A. . HIT 8 mission 

cancelled. · 

(T00.0614-36) 

I Sa tw:'<!,a-y, 7 July: · Sta.rnb erg. to Stuttgart 

Left Starnberg ·0930. 

:K-ration lunch in Augsburg, where both 7th Army and. Military .Government 

require extensive and trouble.some authorisation for transit mess. · 

Arrived Stuttgart 1730; 

Operating Battalion. . 

billet in railway ?tation with·716th Railway 

SIGNALS OUT : .. LER 32 

Can be in OSTENDE evening TENTH. Request pa,J;ticulars red 

tape for crossing. CHANNEL, Will not meet noon schedule ·.'·" to-day. 

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LER.33 

We _!:lxpect to drop radio operator BIGG-IN with 'TAT.E'i' 1..n. 

VERSA.UJLES,'1 Is thi_s correct? r 

('1!0{\, 070002) 

' LER 34 

.. At STUTrGlillT. Cance1 morning r,~,a: noon schedules Sunday 

eighth. Will be on air at o igh t ean hu..'ldred Z. · Pass to 

WARE 

LER 35 

\ HIT. 11. received. Cancel our LER .311:-. 

Schedule for VP.LET from n~w on. 

' .Cai1cel all Radio 

SIGNALS TI{: 

HIT 1 ·1 - CAl'iiP.fUGl.\J""E from TICOM 

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Your.LER 32. Repo'.r't on afternoon tenth at OSTEND to 

Lieutenant GIBSON R.NoVoR. Movement Liaison Offi,cer, who 

has been warned of your arrival. 

(T00.07171.5) 

(T00.07.194.5) 

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HIT 12 C.AlvIPAIC-NE from TICOM 

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Your LER 33. Yes, correct. 

(T00.071556) 

Sunday! 8 July; Stuttgart to Met:~ 

Left Stuttgart 0810. Arrived Metz 1830. 

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Mon~y, 9 July: Metz to Paris . 

~eft Metz 0800.. Arrived Paris 1600. 

n ., 4-!'e:.."' 1 n · ·7r;·;,. -:i _E:.L~., J.,G!J. .;.11c.~·-··1 a:n>-'- e· a+~: Ver~-e.:tlJ.e~ o Cal.led !l~ Colonel 

Bioher' s office. 

Billeted at Transit Camp in Aubervilliers, north of.Paris. 

Tuesday, 1"0 July: Paris to Ostend 

Left Paris 0830. Arrived Ostend 1600, where Lieutenant Gibson, R.N. V oR., 

arranged our passage for to-morrow and reconmended'bil.let at the Nouveau Ooq 

d'Or, ¥Zhich Captain Hovvgate arranged. 

!.t;;dnesdny, 11 JulY., 

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Hoarded LST 238 at Ostend·at 1000. 

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:Qiursday, 12 Ji.gx 

Disembarked at ~ilbury at 1300. .A..."l'Ti ved W.'U' S~a ti on 1605. 

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S E C T I 0 N III 

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REPORTS OF TARGETS IN DET.HJ.c!.!.. 

,, REPORT .1 

, REPORT ·OF TRIP TO MARBURG AS ESCORT 

. At~o530 on 8th' June, ,one' truck and one coach, with Captain J. MAgilavy, 

U.S.A., and Captain M.A.G. !fmvgate, I.C., left Bletchley, arrivJ.ng at the 

Oratory School, Knightsbridge, at 0715. Here, eighteen Germ.an male civilians 

and four Gen:1an female civilians were· collected and taken un~er guard t0 

Northholt Aerodrome. Here ,the civilians, with baggage, and with C,aptain 

Howgate as escort, enplaned at 1040 for Frankfurt, Captain Magilavy. returning 

to Bletc:hl.ey with· the transport. 

, ' · The party arrived at Frankfurt Aerodrome at 1310 anc1 were met by two· 

details. The first was·a truck-fron. Lieutenant Colonel Allen, with orders 

to proceed with the party to Lieutenant Colonel Allen's Headquarters at 

Ruesselsheio, The second was the routine aerodrome authorities' transport 

in charge of a U .s. fu..""DJY Captai.:."1, wh'o had no orders about the civilians; 

Captain Howgate decided, therefore,· to act on Lieutenant~Colonel .Allen 1 s · 

instructions, and reported with the civilians to him at Ruesselsheim at 144-5. . . . 

Lieutenant Color:.el Allen then infonned Capt;ain Howgate that the driver· 

of the truck had, mistaken the orders, 01'.d that the party was to propeed to 

Marburg to contact· Captain Lockvmod. At 1805 the party ·arrived ·at Iviarburg 

and Captain Howgate contacted Captain Lockwood,. who knew nothing of the 

arrival of the civilians or what he was to do.with them. I 

It ~s finally decided to put the civilian~ in a hotel under security 

,guard. Captain Loc'kvmod' s a,ssistant gave C,aptain Howgate a receipt for the 

civilians, and Captain Howgate left Marburg at 1030 on 9th.June, arriving at 

Wiesb~den at 1315, where he reported to Major Zaharias at G-2~ 12th Arrey 

G~oup H~Q • 

. Captain Hqwgate· ranained in Wiesbaden until the aITival of TICOM Team 4 

on Monday, 17th June. 

REPORT 2 

ISLAND OF MAINAU, Ll\.KE CONSTANCE 

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Visi tea. on 22nd June by Li.eutenant Talbot-Ponsonby and 30 U .A. 

Mainau was o. 30 A.U. target, certain experimental stations from 

Peenenuende lJeing reported as having ~vacuated to Mainau. 

. The isiand is being used by the French Army as a rehabilitation centre 

for displaced persons. Access t9 the building was refused by the sentry on 

the grounds that the island was neutral. territory, the property of Prince 

. Bernadott€ of ·Sweden. Contact was made with the Senior Medical Officer who 

said that everything that the Germans had left had been removed, and that 

the island had already bef?~ visited by ~~m British Intellig~nce Officers. 

Passes to enter the Establishment, he said; were to. be had in Constance. 

This' proved inpractic~ble, as once more the Sul tan of :Morocco was present. 

A gr8.Ildiose parade was in progre.ss, involving the passing of hundrea.s of 

h'"'oops. tanks, etc',; end the ·,•t-,ole official work "of the toW::i. had ceased. , . . 

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REPORT 3 

Lieutenroit Commander Cam.paigne, Lieutenants Besant and· Talbot-Ponsonby, 

D.nd Captain Howgate called on Seou:ci t~ Milito.ire at Bregenz to inquire about 

commi.mica.tions targets. He menJi.:to:1ed a station near Lauterach. The party 

four.d it after, many detours, to f'ind. it a broa.dcastir.g station now in use by 

the French. · 

From there we went to see an expert, Schubert (Gennan), in Dornbirn, 

who tu::ned mt to be expert in b~.'Oadoasting. He. told us of OOY transmitt;ng 

at Kd'stein. Jmother ·call tale was aboat ~ mobile broadcasting unit crossing 

irlco Aust:<.~ih a?out 22nd Ap:dl, "the day he c.r:cived to. ·C;ake over the station. 

REPORT 4 

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.. Village of Grafenhausen, Kreis Neustadt (HGgau), was visited on 23 June 

by Lieutenant Coggin, R.N.V.R. an~ Lienten.:urc Huutii1gton, U~S.N.R., in search 

of Alois Gautert, said by Brigadis:::- Genex·al :t!:.L. Ha:r~'.".l.son· :(A,-C. of S. G-2) · 

[Lette:- of 17 June to n1111 Sub-Division, G~,2, · S!i..4E:B1, Attent:to;_, Lieutenant · 

McMahon] to be the inveator of a on,.~l·~man to;rpdeo, ·considered by 01\H :In 19li2 

. for P.roduo ti on, but never produced . 

. We found no one in the village of the nmne of Gautert, -but . several 

· people named Gant~rt were mentioned by the villagern:>, ·Nho haa., howev:er, never 

heard of Alois. The Gan-terts are all simpJ.e ::;:-easan:~s. It seems very 

unlikely thD.t th<=J nan in ques.tio~1 sholllc. be one of them • 

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REPORT ~ 

.YISIT TO TUNAU, 27th JUNE, 

.The party consisted of Lieutenant Coranande~·campo.igne,·Lieutenants Coggin, 

Talbot-Ponsonby, Besant and Huntington, and Captain Howgate. Lieutenant · 

Phillips took us to this acoustical research station ru.n,once by Boettger, with 

. whor.i we talked. 

The laboratoiy once had 60 persons; still has iO Ger,-nnns. They had deve-' 

loped a device which told the d.ire~tion and distance of depth charge explosions, 

measuring the wave front fom by means of a _cath9deray oscillograph. Ten were 

made but not installed. · Thirty:-eigh·b ,of a.Yi earlier mad.el (which gave direction· 

only) were installed. 
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REPORT 6 

K U F S T E I N 

Visited on 26th June by Lieut~nants Huntington ond Tal~ot-Ponsonby. 

The Austrian Director of Radio :Vorarlberg at Dornbirn, a civilian and . 

interested in nothing beyond public broaden.sting, infonned us that the Kufstein 

area was the best one to search after Vfehnaacht transmitting stations. In 

Kufstein Major Veal of th.e Military Government' s~d that no infonnation at ·all 

was available on the subject of .Wer.Liinacht installations other th.an purely' 

\ ntllitazy, but ·that at h'is bill.et on the Hechtsee nearby certa'in Radar experiments had tnke~ place. These had been investigated already by LieutenEl!lt H.V. 

Greenough, Jr., U.;S.N.R., who had removed all he had wanted. ' 

11he Hechtsee was not visited. 

REPORT 7 

S_~C-· _H_L_I_E_R __ S_E_E ___ 27th, 28th, 29th~ 

• . • On the basis of information supplied by' Oberst Kettler to Lieutenant 

Nuelsen of TICO~vl Tear:i 6 (See Section II,, Log for 24th, 25th June, HIT 3 and 

HIT 4), according to which the archives of OKW/Chi were in the custody of a 

certain Dr. Schaedel in Schliersee early in May, this target became one of 

Terun. 41 s two principal ahd nost promising targets. The TeOin had good hopes 

of success from the moment that Captain Weston, of the Military Government, 

introduced Hauptmann KW1Z, who stated his belief that the Wehrmacht had left 

r.iany boxes of documents hidden.in the.neighbourhood. 

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J Hauptmann Kunz, who wore civilian clothes and the armband of the Military 

Government Police, had, before the war, been a captain in _the Vienna police. 

Shortly after the Anschluss he was transfeITed. to Northern Gem.any, and 

throughout the war he had been assigned to polio e duty in· various places in 

the Baltic and No~th Sea areas, returning,finally to the South for duty a~ 

Munich. This infonnation, given by himself, was co~oborated by the Military 

Governme1:1t, which further s~a t'~d that he was now of considerable help to them 

in locating fugitive Nazis. With the pern:.ission of the Military Government, 

he carried a pistol in his brief case. He hoped that he would be able to 

re~rn to Vienna as soon as possibl~, since there he would be better qualified. 

than he was in Bavaria to identify beyond all question individuals whose former 

activities had aided the Nazis. In the opinion of the Team, after two days of 

association ·with him, he is trustworthy. His search, though unsuccessflll, was 

t!;orough in investigatirig every place which rn.ie;ht reason.o::i.bly have been expected 

to yield results, and there was evidence at each place tha.t this eJtpectation · 

was indeed reasonable. . · • .· · · " 

It should be mentione~ that Hauptmann Kun~ was, during our stay, affiliated 

with the Freihi::-)its~ktion BayEl1'TI (1''.A.B.), +.o the Headq~rters ·of which he took 

the Team. . The avowed pu1-pose of F.A.B. is to 0Ji=ir1J'.' Bavaria 'of war criminals. 

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On the first· da_ y the Team searched the following pll'l.ogfj; .. I . 

·3 Hospitals - 2 in·xhe.town, 1 ex-SA Schule on 

The~RD.ilway Station and trucks in goods yard · 

The School and adjacent book deposit 

. Post Office and Telephone Exchange 

·Freudenberg Hotel 

S·b_ ... ruiabad, ar..cl :r..earby landslic1e O!l railway, 

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The hospitals are being run as Gennan Army hospitn.ls under· German control 

with their __ own medical staf'fs. The actual buildings were· two former hotels, 

and one fonner S.A. Schule, Beyond one or two empty boxes, no evidence of 

Wehrmacht occupation was found, At Kunz' s suggestion, Team. 4 interviewed 

Oberst Marsan and Major Amsing, but they had both been in Schliersee ·as 

patients' only and knew of no other Wehnnacht act~vities ·in the area. In the 

annex to the S .A. Schule were found many personnel files relating to the S.A. 

that hruil: been in the place, but of no interest to the Team. The Military 

. Goveh'nraent were aware of their presence, the docuinents being guarded by the 

caretaker_ of the house who had had them arranged in rul orderly fashion. · 

· The visit to the railway station yielded nothing beyond two closed rai".1..-

way trucks belong:L."lg to the Luftwaffe, which had been broken into by wandering 

Russian Displaced Persons, loo.ted and considerably damaged. ' These contained 

no more than· photographic reconnaissance gear and papers'· 

In the basement of the school were found a number of teleprL"lt.er I:lD.chines, 

which had come from the co:mnunioations depaz·tment fcrmerly in the Hotel 

Freudt?nberg. Neither the schooJ.m.8.ster nor the caretaker knew anything about 

them. The sohool book deposit contained nothing bu(; old sc(wol. ·cext books, 

as-senbled for. destruction at the hands of -the Allies. 

Tne Post Office and Telephone lli~change likewise yielded no positive 

results, the only traces of the Wehnna.oht being several 'hun?-red a.nrw tele-_ 

phones turned in for repairs and storage. 

The Strandbad near Freudenberg was found to have housed many boxes be.:.. 

longing to the Wehrmacht, which had been kepi:; in the bathing huts. Only a few 

• empty boxes nmv remained. The proprietor told us the same story that we had 

heard at the station, n.c.mely that the army had taken two goods· trucks of papers 

in boxes along the railtrack on the western shore of the lake to a spot where' 

the track is cut by a landslide; and had dumped the contents into the water, · 

which at that point is st,eeply shef.ving and de13lp, Tr..is p~ace was then visited. 

Not cnly would it hav'e been easy to remove any goods from a truck , straight into 

the lake, but there' were .the, ashes of a large pep er bonfire of files and office' 

equipment. vVhat few documents were sufficiently whole to enable a few lines· 

to be read appeared to be SS persormel files; The only sheet found intact was 

ha~ded over·to the C.I.C. 

The Hotel Freudenberg had been occupied by the Wehnnacht, including, from 

.. 15th April 1945, a CorrmUt1ications Officer, Major Wendt*·, 'and his deputy, 

Stabsintendant Ratz. Teleprinter lines were installed, connecting with 

Munich, Wendt having a staff of 80 women auxiliaries (these are the teleprinter 

' machines now in the cellar of the Schlie~see school), The staf'f had.been 

allowed to g6 free by ·the Americans. Hatz returned to Lauf near Nuf?rnberg. 

Major Wendt, on the other hand, with tino lorries and a car, fled by road for 

Kitzbuehl on 2.3rd April. According to the informant, arrival in Kitzbuehl was 

confir~ed by one of the party who afterwards returned to Schliersee. 

Virtually no eqt.iipment beyond empty boxes and a large .stock of st~tione:cy 

including many .rolls of tape was left behind at the hotE?L · ·A quantity of 

radio Jflaterial, said to be worth seven million Marks, was stated to have been 

dumped into the _lake from a raft. 

The hotel is at present in use by the U.S • .Arr.ny, and immediately before 

their arrival had housed 500 P/Ws., 

Informant: Ex-German iU::my Officer, discharged from the Army .after leaving 

hospital. - He is the owner of the hotel and lives on the premises. He had 

. not been there long enough to know much about the men concerned. The details 

of Hatz 1 s whereabouts· came from his .wif (:;. . ' 

' * Owner of 3 factories at Zwickau in Sachse:::i. 
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The following day the Team was again joined by Kllll2. . After visiting. a 

fan.1 in the valley where the only evidence of Wehnnacht contact was two empty 

anny boxes, the party proceeded up the mountain road beyond.Spitzingsee., 

Here a numb er of oountnin f,.l1'r.1S and' Alpine huts W(;jre searched, aa v.rell as 

Hinrnler's hunting lodge, now occupied by .U.S. troops. Some yielded traces. 

of former ~ccupation, but seldom anythinr; more thnn•en\PtY boxes .or "Jerrycans", 

about whose contents or history the occupants professed to know nothing more -' 

• than the fa~t that they had bee11 left behind empty.' pne hut was lived in by 

six Nazi Frenchmen, 'who claimed to be working on the roads, but were said to 

be caus.ing the local population trouble by such acts as sheep stealing. Th'il 

mountain police were aware of_ their existence. .Another cluster of .huts 

contai-ned a "lustiges Zigeunerleben" of four ex-Luftwaffe men arid three girls. . . 

In nearly all buildings visited during these two days there was direct 

evidence of some former connection with, or occupation by, the German army. 

In no case was there much more than empty boxes to reward extensive searches 

of houses, outho11f'.88, c elJa.r.s and rafters. The med:i~ai staffs natura.J.ly 

p:t·oi'essc:iU. o.01nplete ignorance, while likAly- people who ·were intei::i:ogated had 

never heard of Dr. Schaedel. No one in the F:A.B. Headq)Jn..rters was able to 

give any information about him. · · 

The ;F'.A.B., however, did react immed?-ateiy to the word. i

1

Nachrichten", 

and Herr-Reitz (?), apparently on13 cf! tb.e leader.s of the movement, quickly 

produced from his pocket the following list of wanted persons, which he 

(somewhat dramatically) read aloud: 

Oberstlt. KEHLER 

Oberst KE~'fi,ER 

- Min. Rat~ FENNER 

Reg.Ratp MITTENHAIN [presumably Huettenhain] 

Son.Fueh:nr FRICKE. _ ·. 

Prof .Dr. FRANZ 

Dr.R~g.Ra~.VOED-ELE 

The F.A.B. also mentioned a certain Major Wedepohl as having been in 

charge of a radio station conmrunicating, so thought the F.A.B., witr Murnau 

(approximately 35 miles from Schliersee), Wedepohl was described as a· 

centre of anti•Allied resistance; and was said to have been aided in his 

activities by his secretary, Fraeu1ein ~ilo Zirbes. Two .other women, namely 

Sigrid Borgers and .Anneli Mueller, vmo had once had the F~ldpostnummer. 08088, 

subsequently altered to a number ending in 302 (first two· digits unknown), 

had also been aq,tive at an OKH radio station in the neighbourhood" Tb.:i.a may 

ll?...VEl been Major Wedepohl~s station, though this is not certain. These two 

women were known to have left the area by way of Miesbach, where it is 

thought they applied to the Military Government for passes to Dortmund. In 

conclusion, the F.A'.B •. mentioned an Unteroffizier Skow as having been employed 

·at Major Wedepohl's station.,· 

Lieuteno.nt .Commander Campaigne and Lieutenant Huntington then accompanied 

Hauptmann Kunz to the former billet of Major V/edepohl and Fraeulein Zirbes, 

where, however, no significant information was added. 

- On June 28th Captain Howgate contacted Battery H. Q. of 389th Artillery 

Unit, U.S. Army, at Bayrischzell, near Schli"ersee~ in order to obtain assistance with the radio repairs necessary on "VALET". In the course of conversation the Unit Signals Officer .said that he had located some 29;000 Marks' 

worth of wireless. equipment in a canyon above Ba.yrischzell, ani that he 

believed that th~re were other boxes still hidden higher up the ravine. 

This information was passed on to Lieutenant Commande:z:- Campaigne who, on 

29th June, sent Lieutenant Talbot-Ponsonby and Captain·Howgate to investigate 

the subject further. , . · / 
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. The sergeant in charge of the ravir!e see.rch party was interviewed and 

said that the infonnation leading to the d1sc6very of the hidden wireless 

e$luipment came from an attendant 13.t a hatM.:ng J:'O?l in Bayrischzell. HP. 

,:~·~:: t:~::·~·i i\:u~ .. L:l:_ .... ::J."'; . ·;;i.ta. ~· -~~11~ ;:.iC..: j\.E::._~·. 'Li'lJ"l~~(~. t1:"tt_i.,/~..:.:.~· .t~~ t..h\;." l1'!:.'.riJlU VJ':~.l>? iJt-jliS\i"Eil. o:T 

the bathi."lg pool attendant to contain food ·- a belief vvhich had so far 

proved correct by the unearthing of two boxes, hoth of which were found to· 

contain tinned foods. When asked whether H might be possible to examine 

the boxes for purposas of identir. ... yfog the German uni ts concerned, he said 

that they had .been left overnight in the rL:.vine ai1d had been stolen by SS. 

men! 

The sergeari~ said, howe·rer, that he cotLld take the officers to the· 

bathing pool attendant, who might su.pply 'them. with further infonnation about 

the re3t of ·tr.:.e buried boze::;, but that.he (the se:r.gea.'"lt) v;a.s convinced tha.t 

they contained only food·. Nobody at 389 Battery H.Q. knew the name of the 

bathing po:Jl ati.;rmdant or whe're he lived, but it was known that he was to be 

found at the bathing pool every' fine dey. Since it had been raining con-

.tinuously for th:cee days, doubts were expressed as. to whether he would be 

available. Jn spj_te of this, Lieutenant Talbot-Ponsonby and Captain Howgate 

proce ed.ed to the ba. thing pool but were ·t'!T'..3.bl e ·co lex.; ate the a i~t endant. 

Looal inhabitan-cs were questioned but did not know where he lived; merely 

that he was to be found at tho pool if the wea.ther wa.s good. Since the 

barometer was ~till. falling and the .search appeared hopeless, Lieutenant 

Talbot'-Ponsonby and Ca.ptaj.n 'Howgate ret.urued to Sohliersee a.•d reported to 

Lieutenant Commande.r Cnmpaigne, who decided that in view of -Ghe ir.forma·tion 

a.bout the probable contents oi' th·3 burlea. bo:~es and in view of ths metereological reactions of the bathing peel attendant, the search was to be:· 

discontinued. 

In conclusion, it is the opinion· of Team 4 that OICW/Chi archives a.re 

very probably not above g!'ound in the immei:liat~ Sc~liersee n~ighbo\lrhood. 

The materi~l may have be~n: 

REPORT 8 

1. dumped ·into the lake from the raUwey tracks near the 

landslide on the western shore; 

2. burie.d ·or otherwise concealed in mountain locations; · 

3. evacuated to the south, as far examl?le by Major Wendt 

fr0m Freudenberg.· 

- *'2 --

LINZ - ARTILI.ERIE WAFFENKOMMA.'l\j])O (HAFENSTR~ 1aj_ 

Visited 1st July by Lieutenant Commander Gampaigne, Lieutenant TalbotPonsonby" and 30 ·A.U. 

The shed.s containing the command showed signs of extensive destruction 

by the Greeks and Poles after their ·liberation. Wooden sheds cont,a'm:i.ng 

tools and repair ~hops had had their contents looted and badly damageO,. The .~urrounding fields contairied .about. fifty searchlightsJ all of whicl"(h-~ oee~ 

dain.9.ged, · a,nd a numper· of ships' H.A. guns. . Both these and the se.a;rqhlight_s· 

were miP;nly of Ii;.aliari manufacture •. •. .. I 

.·. . :··.-' . ' . ' 

· Nothμig of interest; -or v~ue was found in the buildings owing 

destruction, with the exce,Ption of a large range-finder,. which was 

by 30· n. ir. : . . ; ·· · , 

to the 

taken·· B;Way · 

! c • 

. This in~pection· :lea. to a visit 

.Linz; :where :me.:ribers w0l1t or! board a 

au au t the Artillerie -w[!>.ff e:rikor.cmar;do, 

qna.y was ex<J.:-:i:i.:.ec1 a.:1:1 LTu:o:1d. 4..:o 1:J e 

to the basin of the Darube Flotilla at M~F .. P. ·i:;..J oo:Tobo:;:-ate -the a.etails heard 

~~o re~s :::;;~.\- .. ~ etir-raid s}lcl'i; er on the 

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II 

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"GRUNDLSEE" TARGET -~~-_,_ .. ~ C"ft,;7~ 

In the afternoon, after· arTanging billets at Bad Ischl, Lieutenant 

Commander Campaigne and Lieutenants Besant and Coggin left to find the C.P.V.A. 

laborato:ry at Grundlsee, over. the Poesc:1er Pasz. Nothing was· found at 

Grundlsee, but hearing that the ne:;.,.-£ lake, Toeplitzsee, was guarded, the p_arty 

·wen.t there.' A sign on°the lake bottom verified thatit was C.P.V.A. The 

U.S. Na".Y ·was competerit~y exploiting the target. 

The lake 'is very remote, be:l.ng reachable .by a. road Only a je~p can 

negotia:t;e. .. P..rJ. a tterupt had ·been made to bring a -Cliff down across the road. 

by underminh1.g it wi tn explo_si ves. The labora to:ry was the purest makeshift; 

being mad-a of J.ogs, without heat or running water; 

·on the lake were numeroui buoys and pontoons, ·the' latter of. the type 

used by aeroplanes. The biggest :were app:toxi.mately twenty-seven feet long, 

indicating a· plane ·much too big to land on that lake. 

A great deal of material had been dUin:ped into -the lake, and was being 

sought for by divers,, who were not there ·a-c the time, ·but who came periodically from Linz. · 

INNSBRUCK ~ JNNRAIN 9 ---- ------

.First visit 26th June; sedpnd visit 4th and 5th July. 

(The following repor~ shou1d be supplemented by consulting Enclosure 1 -

of Final .Report of TIC OM Team 2]. - I • 

The building is· a ooiivent-wi ih the nuns in possession. It is but of . 

boiinds to troops, but its rooma a~e unlocked arid ar~ easy of .access to the 

numerous ·Austrian civiliahs who attend classes iri English on the first floor. 

Rooms on all floors apart from thi3 first. are unused and thos ~ on ihe second . 

floor are empty of all- dootillients and equipment. · · 

The basement· contains a miscellaneous collection ~f Wehrmacht papers of 

no apparent value;. the ground floor, a coni;jiderable quantity of personnel 

records, in d.eep disord~r• . Opposit'e the foot of the· stairs is a heavy metal 

safe, 6• x 4' x 3', ioc~ed,; iri __ the: Upper portipn of the back of which a hole 

has· been cut (photograph avaiiable). This, however~ .exposes _to view only 

the upper compartment, which is eroptyJ A simi1ar safe, locked ard i.mdama.ged, 

is-in the ground floor room nearest the kitc!l-en. Tl:te nuns declared themselves 

unable to open these safes. 

One room on the top floor (third) pr~ved _to have housed the Marined.ruok• 

schriftenverwaltung of MOK Sued, records.· and doca.1.ment~ of :whi~h cons.tituted 

one of Team 4' s two principal targ~ts·. (The extent of exploitation ·by Team 2 

was ,not knowri at ithe time ~hat. TICO:M recei v€a. further intelligence to the. 

eff.ect that· this target required further examination). · . . . 

This room was stil.1.in the condition fully described in Team 2's Report. 

Betyreen the first and second visits o~ Team-4, considerable destruction of 

Enigma machines had occurred. Mi·s. Churchill, an Austrian now employed by 
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the C.I.C., and Lieutenant Eiband, U.S.N.U., Liaison Officer, informed Team 4· 

that numerous parties of. specialists had v:Lsi t ed the room and had removed 

d9cuments. Among· these parties were Lieutenant (j.g.) McNees, U.S.N.R., 

T~Force, 29 May; Commander Colemans; U. S,N .R. ; . Lieut ana.nt Parker, R.N. V .R. 

M;:i.j°or Griffiths of T-Force stated that a list o:f' some rraterials removed was 

on.f:i.lcW:ith T-Force in Salzburg. 

Tewn ~,.. m~¢1.e. a thCJ:.'(•Ug~l und 1:1y-stt::•l1':l.tic s1o1cw.·ch l1l.: ·i;;ht; :ceru;~.in3.0r of th$ 

material, and l~emoved th9 foll0wing itemo, SOlrLE! of which wer~ burled. under a 

po:>.'tion of the fallen ceilJ.ng~ ·i i;scJ.f covered to a depth of a.bout 2 feet by 

a soC!.d.i:i11 1!18.SS o:f' cha~.·1:cci p?.per. A copy of the following list was filed at 

Majm.' Grlf li tns cs o£'f i(;~; 

ii. co1):i.P.s Schluesselgruppentafeln i-30 

·1 

2 ;JO}: o-" J. wettt:)d. soluble p.rint pin~ pages 

'6 copies F1

J.ugmeJ.d.2signal taf al 

I+ copies S8hluesselfe:r..t!sohreibvorschrift 

3 copies '1I enn.o '·' Schluesselheft 20.3 

3 " 11 II 201~ 

1 copy Schluessel "H'1, 2 vols • 

. 2, copies Telepdnt addresa bcok; Part g 

1 copy· " II " 

6 copies Schluesselblaetter 3004; 

6 

,. 

0 

8 

II 

II 

II 

II 

II 

.3017 

3020 

Pa:r:"t 1 

6 II Aufklaerun.gs- u. Kampff'liegertafel Land/See 

1 box one-tiine pads in poor condition. 

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(Sigiled) ;, I 

H.H. C.A111PAIGNE, 

Lieutenant Cormnander, U.S.N.R.