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, INFORMATION CONCERNING 1 .... ____ _...... __ ,......____,._ _ __, 

/ 1 October 1954 

,___ ____ ___,~delivered a report; in August 1945 on the decipherment of the .American strip ciphe:t-o-2 by the Get.man Foreign 

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Office. Another of his reports was /on Sequences ~Permutations, 

and he was reported in 1946 to have written a volume.on cryptograi:tiY 

and cryptana.13'sis for th~ laovernment.

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The d Review on 

German Science (Mathematische und maschinelle llethoden beim Chi:f'i'- ...... __......,. ...... ....,.. ... - ' - ------ rieren ~ Dechiffrieren, Naturforschung e Medizin ~ Deutschla.nd 

1939-1946 - Mathematical ~ Machine Methods ~ Enciphering e B!-

ciJilering, Natural Science !B!! Medicine in. Germarg;, 1939-1946), completed in 1947, included a report by._l ____ ___.r Another\ report, 

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TIQ~ Histort vol. 6, P• 15,ll ~ SBG&iT. 

14 September 194~, .ml' SEetm. 

30 October 1945, !OP .~Eeftlftl;; 

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I I "a combined I 

and ltorganization devoted to the study of ...,,aerman..------..t-e ..... Chrii,.........,....ca_l_ 

secr~NYTLC, 2 November 1946) The organization was can.posed 

of several hundred selected German scientists, whose reporl;s SUJllll.ed 

up the total of Germany's scientific lmowledge. It had its headquarters at Hoecht 11 and later at Karlsruhe, Germany, and was deactivated on 1 Jul.Jr 1947. (WD CMC Fra.nkfurt/AGWAR Nr: SN .3196.3, 20 

June 1947, CM IN ;s;s2, eONF:r~) 

5. NSA Technical Libracy-, C-3649, NO CLASSIFICATION SHCllN. 

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written in Februaey 19481 was entitled Chit.trierverfahren der neuesten --------- ----- ~ (YE,-~~ Crzytogr:aP&); the author is list•d as being a res1 

ident of Mainz at this time. 

A 194~._ __ ..... IID.E!IJ~age states that the .,....1 ___ I Embassy in Paris 

informed the French that a volxune entitled Applied Mathematics was rewrtedl1' to be piblished under the aegis()fi;,he French; in Chapter 

Nine o~ the book, Prof ·I jwasuuto d.EtBJ.u l'r.i.~~ ~~t.llC>~S' of decryptment." > EO 3.3(h)(2) 

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·In December 1951, I rPl"esellt~d a cJ,&:tin against the 

United States for the loss of personal. property~rred by several 

form.er Foreign Office crnmographic and cryptana:eytic personalities 

when they were moved from Berlin/ to Burgscheidungen and later to Mar3 

burg. A letter .f'rom ASAE to the Clli.et, ASA, .forwarding this list of 

claimants, stated that 11the Judge>Advoca.te General, Fhropean Canmand, 

in rep:cyiDg 1 l~,;t re<l!le&t in settl.ement ot the group• s 

claim,; will disclaim any.t'esponsibility on the part of the United 

States, primarily be~ause the loss of. property was incurred 'When the 

group was moved tran Berlin to Burgscheidungen. This move was made 

by the I jaovermnent. 11 It is suggested that these persons, Dr • 

....._ __ ___.rossibl.y included, were at sane time emplo7ed by the United 

States, since the/implication in the ABAE letter is that the United 

1. NSA Technical Library, C-3"649, NO CLASSIFICATION SHOi4lN. 2.1 124 Janu.ary 19491 9BP SBSRE'! 00Bl!WORB. 

3. 17 December 1951, 'l:OP ~ • 

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N8T RELEt<5t<8LE TO FOREIG1i=;K7~NALS --- .. - Tt.e lnrorrnaf1on coritalHed Jn 

U1l• llocu•e•t w1 I not be dis~losed 

ti for•I•• r.allonals or their repre• s••t•tlves 
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States may have been responsible tor their move from Burgscheid.ungen 

to Jlarburg. Such a move may have taken pl.ace during the period when 

Dr. ROHRBACJI was working withl I 'lhree of the persons whose names 

and addresses appear on the list submitted b~ I- Dr. 

are current;J.y em.ployed in the GerJ11..an/Foreign Qrfice cryptographic 

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and comnunications agency • 

..__ _____ ____.!- 378ted ~ a .....b~ ot the German llathematical Society in December 19511 and a publication of the German 

Pr'otestant Chlirch, cm the occasion of a church congress in Stuttgart, 

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Z'/-31 August 19521 lists/~ ~f Mainz. 'l'he 1953 

Mainz telephone directory does not carry a listing for Professor Dr. 

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1. c l4 June 1954, '!!9P SB9RBI F:R0!'H, e. s. EBB 6lftif. 

2. I f 8 January 1952, &KS~G!l'&D. 

3. ~elische Kirche i:!!_ Deutschland, !!£, Vierte Deutsche Ev!ngelische 

Kirchentas, !2!1 Z!J.. !?i!!, J! .Augu.st 1952 in Stuttgart. UNCLASSIFIED. 

T•e 1• 1••••Uoa contained Jn 

Uit• •••••••t •l•I not be dlsoloaed 

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