HOETTL'S SERVICES TO ALLEN DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700420016-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: July 6, 1961
• Content Type: PREL

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FOREIGN BRO CAST:
I' r0 RMATION ERVICE
OETTL'S SERVICES TO ALLEN DULLES
FOR YOUR `INFORMATION A
THE BUDAPEST DAILY NEPSZABADSAG 30 . JUN .41 R TVE`Jtc 'INSTALL
SURVIVAL " DEALING WITH THE WARTIME AND P 5 A CTIt ITIE$'_0 PR.' WILRELM
HOE TTL, 'FORMER SS STURMBANNFUEHRER, KALI'EGUNNER'' S CONFIDENTIAL RIGHT
, HAND MAN, DEPUTY HEAD OF THE FOREIGN DEPART ENT OF KALTENBIUN R" 5
REINHSSICHERHEITSAMT, AND HEAD OF THE NAZI ESPIONAGE ORGANIZATION, OPERATING
IN HUNGARY." THE FIFTH INSTALLEMIT SAYSx
"THE WAR WAS, NOT EVEN OVER WHEN HE SHIFTED HIS ALLEGIANCE AND SOLD
HIS SERVICES TO THE AMERICAN ESPIONAGE ORGANIZATION. NO DOUBT. THE SEED
OF THE IDEA WAS PLANTED IN HIS MIND IN' 1945 WHEN HE CARRIED OUT PERSONAL
NEGOTIATIONS WITH ALLEN DULLES, WHO THEN DIRECTED THE EUROPEAN ESPIONAGE
ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES FROM SWITZE LAND. AS A MATTER OF FACT,
AT.THAT TIMES HOE TTL ' WAS ASSIGNED TO GO TO SWITZERLAND ON KALTENBRgNNER'' S
ORDERS, WHICH WERE CONFIRMED BY HIMMLER. HIS:'TASK WAS TO OFFER T T ' '
HE
GERMANS HOLD UP tffHE ADVANCING SOVIET ARMY ON HE AUSTRIA J'M -IN RE R"N,
THE KAL1ENBRUNNER CLIQUE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO FORM AN AUST IAN GOVERNMENT.
ON 'HIS MISSION HOETTL' S NUMBER AS. AN AGENT lAS 144/7947. HE RETURNED
FROM HIS NEGOTIATIONS WITH ONLY A PARTIAL SUCCESS. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT
AT THE TIME ALLEN DULLES COULD NOT ACCEPT KALTENBRUNNER ON: TOO.NEW AUSTRIAN
CHANCELLOR. THIS HEAD EXECUTIONER WITH BLOOD ON HIS HANDS y BAD, ~,GOMPROMISED
HIMSELF TOO MUCH. DULLES WAS, HOWEVER, WILLING, TO ESTABLISH CONTACT WITH
THE NAZI SECRET SEViCE THROUGH HOETTL.
'IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THE AGREEMENT WITH ALL N DU L . 0 BOETTL
I N AN EXTREMELY ADVANTAGEOUS POSITION. OF CO RSE, R I
SWITZERLAND FOR THE, SECOND TIME TO MEET HIS NEW BOSS, $g BLO i T DREAM
OF TIEING HIS FATE FOR BETTER OR WORSE TO THAT OF. THE GRAVELY COMPROMISED
KALTENBRUNNER. RETURNING FROM THE TRIP, HE DID REPORT TO RUNI+iER..
BUT ALL HE TOLD HIM WAS: ALLEN DOLLES IS WORKING TOWA D F
BRINGING AUSTRIA WNDER WESTERN INFLUENCE IF SIBLE W1iHO lly `> BVOLQTION.' <
AORI/CDF
OF COURSE, I T IS NOT DIFFICULT TO ARRIVE AT. Il E S?LUt :OK, OF` THE SECRET,
THE MORE. SO BECAUSE THE WEST GERMAN ANTICOMMUNIST PA . DE SPIBGEL OPENLY?
DISCLOSED IT. THE 22 APRIL 1953 ISSUE OF Ti3LPAPER Ds -I-ONEDIATELY`
AFTER THE END OF THE WAR THE AMERICAN CIC ASSIGNED Ht TTL TO REESTABLISH;,_
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HIS CONNEC~TIONS WITH HIS FORMER CONTACTS IN BUDAPEST AND BUCHAREST. IN
THE SUMMER' OF 1945, HOEr1`L' S OLD STEYRING SD TRANSMITTER WAS OPERATING,
AGAIN WITH 'ITS AERIAL POINTED TO THE- SOUTHEAST UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
D IC TI NG HOE TTL, AND CONTINUES: "YET THE.. AMERICANS DID NOT ''ARREST HI:M.
THE ARTICLE ASSERTS THAT THERE WOULD. HAVE BEEN MANY REAS 1(S tOR
AMERICAN 'SOLDIERS.'
Approved For Release 2006/08/02 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000700420016-5
 Approved For Release 2006/08/02 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000700420016-5
Approved For Release 2006/08/02 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000700420016-5