THEODOR HANS

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CIA-RDP91-00965R000200030005-1
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42
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December 15, 2016
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December 3, 2003
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STATEMENT
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Approved For Release 2003/12/09 : CIA-RDP91-00965R000200030005-1 **Army Declass/Release Instructions on File* Declassification/Release Instr on File Tn my capacity as a counterintelligence event, snd raving been in charge of counter-espionage operations (until approximately 1`51` in West Berlin, I had firsthand knowledge of the type of Soviet activ- ities under discussion, such as el,du' tions and inter- rogations under duress of psychological pressure or physical intimidation. For the unit to which I was assigned in Berlin, I had to safeguard the security and mission of the United States Forces stationed in Berlin anO Furope. I was also responsible for aiding or assisting and ad- vising the German authorities and Allied agencies in their investigations of abductions or as the German authorities call them, the violations of the personal security of the civilian population of Berlin. During the same period as well as afterwards, I also had the responsibility of pro- tecting operations and personnel utilized in the collecting of counterintelligence or positive intelligence information for the United States Forces. A large number of the victims of abductions end interrogations under duress were active for the Yestern Allies and German agencies (also private organi- zations in West Berlin) in gathering data and information intelligence from last Germany. For this reason, many sources and investigators for the United States Forces and United States Information Agency (USIA) were directly en- dangered by these Soviet practices. Therefore, any cases of abductions and interrogations under duress were of direct interest to me and the unit which I served (Region VIII of CIC and T-bPEEUR Liaison Groups). 'ur basic aim was to collect the dpta on the facts In each case and to learn more about the modus operandi of the Soviet, Fast German, and Satellite intelligence and security organizations perpetrating such crimes. Luring the entire period that I r.e engaged in these investigations, 1 collected applicable newspaper clippings and publications concerning these cases and generally containing accurate information without violating the existing security regulations of the Counter-Intel- Iigence Corps. The material that was published had been Approved For Release 2003/12/09 : CIA-RDP91-00965R000200030005-1 Approved For Release 2003/12/09 : CIA-RDP91-00965R000200030005-1 odor Hen4--'rre /~ /` rcleeeed in the foreiE'ri press. Nr,t havin his been impossible fnr me to + H ' 'would have recoilec, the latee number of details fnd names of persons involved, especially since I was consistently required to cover or report on a multi- +ude: of oe rsons and events of interest to the United States Forces, ?rom January 1 to 'ctober 31, 1,:51, there occurec 1.4 cases of abduction in which persons and circum- stances became known to the West Berlin police, and the =rte (or SFS) was directly implicated. Luring the same period, the police was notified 2.-,9 times regarding abductions, in s:hich the suspects or offenders could not be identified. As mentioned in the KGU (Fighting Group Against Inhumanity) pamphlet, "The Red Gestapo" by Bernhard Sagolla, concerning the Ate:, KURT MUELLER, Communist representative at Federal German Congress (Lower House), was lured to West Berlin (again no actual abduction) and was reportedly later beaten (about 1951) by the interrogator LOTZE to admit having betrayed the party (according to testimony of a fellow inmate who was released and fled to West Berlin). The East German refugee, F.UDQ`LF J., Lendhrusstrssse, Berlin-e'ilmersdorf, was assaulted by four men and beaten with a copper cable on the night of July 23, 1~i5l. Pedestrians came to the victim's aid when he called for help, Cne WFRNER HJPPF:., East Berlin, was then caught. An aacomplio(, 27 year old FFI4IN ZILZ, and an MES officer, .i: year old ALBERT SAIVINKEIT, managed to flee. HOPPE had a falsified West Berlin identification document under the name of MEWPS, given him by the FFS. HO-PPE was a burglar had been offered leniency for a burglary If he cooperated and was also well paid to carry out the cperstion and rent a car. The following are cases described in various German newspaper clippings and of which I also have personal knowlcd,,,e: 1. DR. IIILLANDF R Tii1r1PirVICH, 6, years old et the time, head of the Berlin Committee of Anti-Soviet ;rgenl- zetior. i,o" and n leader of Russian emigrants and resistance croups. `n April 13, 1'54, after a brutal beating, he was apparently placed in a car end taken to East Berlin. The sus- pect was HINT. GF'F:SFr, 4: years of age, married, resident. of Approved For Release 2003/12/09 : CIA-RDP91-00965R000200030005-1 Berlin-FFIeneee (Brit.isl Sector), Heilbrorner Strasse 'l, was visited in t.ho evening by the victim. CL.? ST.. was an active me-,ber of e German private organization, so-called, "Late Returnees end I.xpellees from Prisoner of 'gar Camps and lost Festern -,,ernan Territories," The abduction oc- cured about -- 3.45 pm. i're accomplices were most likely a male driver and up to two more a.en Q-id one -,omen. GLAFSIL was an architect and good acquaintance of the victim, ;.ho probably trusted him well. Also, GLAYS.F'E was most probably an active double-agent between Soviet intelligence (and/or i-T) end the West German United States supported !:ehl n organization (now the BND). Blood was found in the epartment afterwards. A rug had been carried downstairs by GLAFSKF. Later, a subsequently defected last Berlin policeman claimed that e black ,,PEL }.APITAEN was used to take TRUCFINCCVICH and ?is.ESlt to Fast Berlin. The confusing, yet interesting, element in this case is the lack of Western knowledce on .rhether either ;_y UCFUdJVICH or GLAFSEL were abducted and who really abducted whom. `?hatever the true circumstances -acre, H. is evident that. both TRUCHNOVICH and GI.AF.SLE were moved to the Lest and placed under Soviet control; there was a bloody struggle, and definitely an abduction of one or both individuals tool: rlac a Soviet or 14FS direction. ne i U HNE, of the SPD--.)stbuero and its newly appointed heed of covert and resistance activities in East Germany, was abducted February 194` from West Berlin to the East. E:UEHNF had been in contact with one EHLEPS, who had a leading position in the "DWE" (German Economic Commission) of the Soviet occupation Zone. At that time, EHLER resided in West Berlin (French Sector, not far from the Soviet Sector) and EUEHNE had been visiting him at home repeatedly. MT. M. was then staying temporarily in West Berlin to take over and organize the many Fast German operational contacts and planned to return to Hanover, West German;,. The Soviets (MGB) had arranged for two accomplices to aid EHLEBS in drugging FUE} and then moving IUEHNE to Fast. Berlin. ine girl, posing as a maid, prepared the drinks with a drug. The male accomplice as to rot handcuffs on the victim. when iM~Nj, was not easily doped, the man left the adjoining room, turned the radio on full volume, and tried to subdue E.ULHMF: in order to give him an injection (the syringe was later found). The attempt failed and the criminal had to hit. 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