1. Kaltenbrunner provides a summary of information regarding various counterintelligence cases and organizations, including the "Red Orchestra" espionage ring discovered in 1942, Sturmbannfuhrer Kopkow's work tracking enemy parachute agents, and his lack of knowledge about the alleged "Bundschuh" resistance organization or person named Alois Miedl.
2. He considers it possible that former Gauleiter Wagner visited the King of Belgium but has no reports of it. Wagner had connections to Catholic circles in Westphalia and Rhineland that wanted closer ties to Belgium if Germany collapsed.
3. Kaltenbrunner does not believe Wagner was personally involved in the July 20 plot
1. Kaltenbrunner provides a summary of information regarding various counterintelligence cases and organizations, including the "Red Orchestra" espionage ring discovered in 1942, Sturmbannfuhrer Kopkow's work tracking enemy parachute agents, and his lack of knowledge about the alleged "Bundschuh" resistance organization or person named Alois Miedl.
2. He considers it possible that former Gauleiter Wagner visited the King of Belgium but has no reports of it. Wagner had connections to Catholic circles in Westphalia and Rhineland that wanted closer ties to Belgium if Germany collapsed.
3. Kaltenbrunner does not believe Wagner was personally involved in the July 20 plot
1. Kaltenbrunner provides a summary of information regarding various counterintelligence cases and organizations, including the "Red Orchestra" espionage ring discovered in 1942, Sturmbannfuhrer Kopkow's work tracking enemy parachute agents, and his lack of knowledge about the alleged "Bundschuh" resistance organization or person named Alois Miedl.
2. He considers it possible that former Gauleiter Wagner visited the King of Belgium but has no reports of it. Wagner had connections to Catholic circles in Westphalia and Rhineland that wanted closer ties to Belgium if Germany collapsed.
3. Kaltenbrunner does not believe Wagner was personally involved in the July 20 plot
KALTENRRUNNER With referen and 17.7.45. and W. and 26.745. KAL written a statement NI LS' "Rote Kapelle" ( B . 1. The name "Ro discovered some t through hearsay o consisted of a gro contact with Russia. Air Ministry, but in Paris. Military organisation. B e c went to the enemy, o 1943, in the Fthrer the discovery of thi OKW-Abwehr and the S description of the a remember two names: regarding these pers apparently willing t Russia because of hi e to B .1.W. (Mr. Ferguson's) Memoranda of 18.7.45. .C.3a ( Mr. Ferguson's) Memoranda of 18.7.45., 20.7.45. UNNER has been interrogated on these points and has of which the following is a summary: .W's Memorandum dated 18.7.45) e Kapele" was given to a case of treachery which was in the summer of 1942. KALTENBRUNNER knew of this case since he did not come to B erlin until 1943. It of people, apparently some 20-30 strong, who were in The organisation may have had its centre in the B erlin TEEB RUNNER also heard of the activities of a White Russian rsonalities as well as civilians belonged to this ot say, however, if it was chiefly military secrets which if political information was in the majority. Once, in Chancellery, , KALTENB RUNNER saw an elaborate report on organisation. It had been worked out mutr11y by the ate Police (Stapo) and contained photographs and a tivities of each member. In this connection he can SCHEIIB A and SAB RE. He does not know any details ns. One of them, a member of the Air Ministry, was commit treachery against his country to the benefit of Communist outlook. KAPKOW ( B .1.W's Memorandum dated 17.7.45) 2.KALTENB RUNNER counter-espionage. equipped with W/T set "turning" the agents sometimes happened th W/T agents. They dee getting back to their voluntarily on landin Home Army ( Ersatzheer KALTENB RUNNER once sa activities. He does With regard to of this man. tates that Sturmbannfuhrer KOPKOW was engaged in s chief task was tracking down enemy parachute agents and discovering their contacts inside the Reich by nd thus getting into W/T contact with the enemy. It t German soldiers were dropped in this manner as Russian ared on arrest that they had chosen this as a means of country. The majority of them gave themselves up . An order was issued by HINVIER, as chief of the Reserve , by which all such cases were to be reported to him. a report of this type and thus came to know of KOPKOW's ot know any further details regarding KOPWW's work. LETZER, KALTENERUNNER states he knows nothing Aktion B UNDSCHUH ( W.R..3a's Memorandum dated 18.7.45.) 3. KALTENB RUNNER s ates that although varioud matters falling within the sphere of activity of Amts IV and VI were not reported to him, it is nevertheless impossibl for a resistance organisation "B undschuh" to have been set up within the framework of the RSHA. Outside the RSHA also, he has never heard the sl ghtest reference to any organisation of the type of "B undschuh". HCL4111E0 ANN RELEASED NY CENTRALINTELLIGENCEAGENCY GOURCES METHODS EXEMPTI 0N3B26 RAZWARCRIMESDISCLOSLIGEAC1 ATE 2004 2006 -CHET WAGNER (W.R.C. 3a' Memorandum dated 20.7.45) 4. (ACditional statements KAL Gauleiter WAGNER p Laeken in Brussels received nor forw information to Y.P. of 13.8.45). In one of his UNNER said that he considered it possible that the former id a visit to the King of the Belgians at the Castle of However, he knows nothing about this. He has never ed any report about it. According to Lower Silesia and a removed from his po CReichs price contr from that post. WA closely connected w reason that KAL had tried for a li and Yestphalia had if Germany collapse establish a closer say, however, if WA his knowledge, WAGNER was simultaneously Gauleiter for part (north or south) of Westphalia. When he was ition as Gauleiter, he became Reichspreiskommissar her) for a while, until he was dismissed by FISHBOECK had the reputation of being a strict Catholic and th the Catholic movement in WestphPlia. It was for this UNNER said in his statement it might be possible he -up with Belgium. The Catholic circles in the Rhineland efeinite separatist tendencies also, and always hoped, , or there were a reactionary change of regime, to onnection with the Catholic part of Belgium. He cannot NER played an active part in this matter. WAGNER's nam also cropped up in the affair of the 20th July, 1944. KALIOBRUNNER does ot think that he was involved in it personally. However, HITLER s suspicions were aroused against WAGNER, because it so happeded that several persons wer involved in the matter who had formerly been attached to WAGNER s staff when he was Reichspreiskommissar, e.g. V. SCHULENBURG, Jhr. It was rumo "honorary custody" ( circiles that he had In any case, no proo d that, on HITLER's orders, WAGNER had been placed in hrenhaft). However KALTENBRUNNER heard among military been released at his awn request and sent to the front. was ever produced against him. Alois MIEDL (W.R.C. ;a's Memorandum dated 26.7.45) 5 . KALTENBRUNNER does not know any person of this name. (See SCHELLENBERG's answe to this question forwarded under Y.P. dated 11.8.45 .) (signed) A.S. Augsk Camp 020 ASA(JMS 14.6.45 . ECR E. w i
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