THEODOR HANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00965R000200030005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 42
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: STATEMENT

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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
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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
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 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. E1E.HNI. on the head with the hand-
cuffs. }U}} Y obviously put up a terrific ficht leaving blood
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