~~ NY 65-18217 were different. With regard to the writing on the pages, he stated that the printing on the pages was smaller than typing, however, he could not ascertain the exact size of the printing, He stated there were approximately 100 pages in this book, fifty pages for receiving and fifty pages for sending. He began using the first page for receiving and then proceeded to the middle of the book for sending rather than beginning at the opposite end. He believed that the numbers were in five digit groups, that there were about five groups to a line, and about forty lines to @ page. The lines ran consecutively for twenty lines and then a double blank space appeared in the middle of each page and twenty more lines appeared below this spacing. When sending or receiving a message he began using the first half of the page. If the message did not ‘necessitate the use of the whole twenty line group, he disregarded any remaining numbers in the first half of the page for his second message. He would begin his second message then with the bottom half of the page. When he finished with the two halves of any page, he tore this page from his book and destroyed it by burning. Cn the back inside cover of the book was the code that he utilized. This consisted of the German alphabet with numbers after the letters signifying what numbers should be used for what letters. He stated that to the best of his recollection, the majority of letters utilized three digits, however, some had two and some had four digits. The basic language used for the code was the German language. The alphabet in the code book was not a complete German alphabet, as several letters were missing. The missing Letters were repetitious letters which were differentiated by the use of an accent mark. He Bave as an examnle <= the fact. that there was a-"u" in-the code; but no "wa =" ’ with an umlaut. In addition to the alphabet, the code "also contained punctvetion signs such es neviods, commis, and so forth and he believed that ail punctuaticn s*sns SECRET NW 55080 Doocld: 329609537 Page 36 ~30- : EACLE RAY ANNISTON TRAE NETTIE TM HET HOUT TIESTO eee Se mee to rai
- £ NW 35060 Doecid: 32839537 Page 37 ~ SECRET, NY 65«18217 consisted of five digits. There were no numerals in the code and for the numbers Zero through nine, the spelling of these numbers was encoded. He stated that there were also special signs in the code which also had numerical equivilents although he could not remember the number of digits used in these equivilents. He said that there was a special sign that meant that what followed this sign in the message was in the Latin alphabet rather than the German alphabet. There was another sign which meant that what followed this sign was again going to be in the German alphabet, He stated that this was necessary because being in America you would run into words which could not directly be translated into German and, therefore, would necessitate it to be written in English, The only other things appearing on the back page of this code book was a set of numbers which was his code name for sigriing his secret writing message. As an.exdmple of how hé utilized this code he provided the following ericoding of the word "dear": D 2 E 345 A 34. R 7891 12345 67895 46789 34697 EUZNES 34789 1 . 36680 91574 5 24, 345 34,789 1, D E A R SECRET
ra € Nw 35060 Doocld: 32939537 Page 36 NY 65=18217 - He stated that when enciphering the code, the numbers from the cipher pad were added to the code, which had already been prepared. The addition was done from the beginning i.e., the left side of the line. When the numbers were added and the total was more than 10, only the last digit was nut down, the first digit being aropped completely and not carried in the total. General Instructions After KUEHN introduced subject to SCHILLER, subject visited the apartment in which he was trained alone. At the first meeting alone with SCHILLER, after subject was in the apartment for about an hour, SCHILLER received a telephone call, after which he questioned subject as to whether subject had noticed that he had been surveilied from the music school to the apartment. Subject advised that he had not made any such observation and SCHILLER proceeded to tell subject in detail what he had done and how he had travelled from the time he left the music school until he arrived at the apartment. SCHILLER cautioned subject that. for security reasons ke must be alert for surveillance. He told him that in crossing streets he should look back and observe whether any person was following him. Subject advised that on three or four subsequent occasions he observed KUEHN observing him and so reported to SCHILLER, Subject stated that this was the extent of training he had in surveillance detection. Subject advised that in the last two months ‘ of his training the tempo of his meetings with SCHILLER increased to four or five meetings a week. The training period was from 9:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m. or from 3:00 Pp. m. to 9:00 g. m. In addition to the training periods, subject was instructed and did make several trips from the East Berlin sector to the West Berlin sector in order to observe the security regulations of both the East. Berlin..and.West .Berlin. police....He also.was instrucved ee -_ fee en seee seer eenereninee en seein ners cee | a the tet 7 - oe
SECRET NY 6518217 to observe the baggage check procedures followed by both Sides. SCHILLER instructed that subject was to particularly consider boarding a train on the Lichtenstein station of East Berlin and to leave the railroad at the Bahnhof Am.Zoo station in West Berlin, From West Berlin he was to immediately embar'c via plane for Paris. He was instructéd that he should travel from the Bahnhof station to the airline office and learn the procedure which he would use when he was making this actual trip. Subject advised that he made trial runs on three or four occasions. Sub ject was advised that when in the United States, in the event of an emergency, he was to use a drop in Van Cortlandt Park, the location of which was deseribed to him. An entire album of photographs which depicted the buildings in the vicinity of the emexgency drop, the park area through which he would travel toward the drop, and the location of the Grop shown from several angles in the photographs, Subject was instructed that if he had to use this emergency drop he snould place a message in it on the first Saturday of the first, third, sixth, or ninth month. He should visit the drop if possible before 6:00 p. m. He was told that any message he placed in the drop should be in secret writing or code and he was advised that the message could be rolled up tightly and then covered with scotch tape in order to make it waterproof, With regard to the first, third, sixth, and ninth month, the subject said that they told him every three months, but then did say first, third, sixth, or ninth. Subject said that this was only an emergency drop and he would not be expected to use it if he could communicate with his principal through his normal mail ‘drop. He said this was the only drop that was provided him in the United States. The instructions which subject received to locate the drop were as follows: Go to 259th Street and Broadway and, on the nor*fiwest “ SECRET HW 55080 Donld: 32969537 Page 39 ~ -eorner of this” intersection. ‘was a furniture store, cross“
fre neem mimes tee te e MW 35080 Docld: 32989537 Page 40 - NY 65~18217 - While sitting in this cafe he noticed another young German - SECREL the street to the edge of the park in line with this furniture store. Proceed into the park in a direct line past an open play area and proceed for about five minutes checking behind you to make sure you are proceeding in a direct line with the furniture store at your back. After about five minutes walking, you will come to a slight rise. On the other side of this rise are located three rocks. The first rock about shoulder height on a man, the second rock about three feet high in line with the first and the third rock about one foat hign and in line with the other two. ‘Inder thethird ‘rock tuere will be located a container to receive the messages. The subject stated that although he could not remember exactly, there was some type of path close by to the rock under which the container is located. Subject further advised that said path was between the first large rock and the remaining smaller rocks. General Observations of Subject During Trainings Period Subject advised that from various things he observed he was sure that the apartment in which he received his training was also being used to train other individuals for a similar purpose. He said that frequently on arriving at the apartment, he would notice numerous cigarette butts in the ash trays. He also on one occasion arrived at the apartment approximately thirty minutes early and was told at that time that he should not arrive before the appointed time. Thereafter, if he would get to the anartment before the scheduled time he would have coffee at a nearby cafe. about his age waiking by the cafe carrying books on several occasions. Also, on one occasion, when he left the apartment he noticed this same German in the cafe having coffee and, in his own mind,he is quite certain this individual was perhaps destined for the United States inasmuch as subjedét noted that he had the same ‘German-English books as did the Subject. _ ~— _ eee ee ti) seme ieee A OE ed pa nemnnarent tn ameere nereced — eee ae eee oa an ew ee eee -