AZUSA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005725313
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-01813
• Publication Date: November 20, 1944

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Distribution: Washington for Col. Buxton and io9
Paris for Major Furman and /PJ_
Evaluatiun A=4
Subject: Azusa:
Source:
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REPORT B
? November 20;. 1944.
From: OSS Bern
Date of Reports: Nov. 17. 1944
Regener
~Regener',s personal address is &arlstrasse 9, Friedrickshaven.
Source has heard his institute is near Langenargen on the
Bodensee. His work is principally on cosmic rays, and he
has.a registering device end of which is neangenargen
and the other somewhe on the bottom of the Bodensee (sunk.
there, as I underst d-it) so t t the water can provide the
necessary thick or esistant med um between the two ends of
the registering de ice.
Source and s bject are very good friends. Source is
inviting him to c me here (at my expense). Thinks he might
talk. Regenerts.wife is half swish. He was dismissed
from KWlnstitute (Stuttgart) spout 1935, suffered a lot, is
not a Nazi symp t iser. Later he aquired the institute
near Langenargen and there.a~fter the KWI took over this
insitute: .
Regener h da ter in Australia. He also has a son,
Vieetp Victor a s st, who studied in Bologna, but is
at present witl`i Mi liken n Pasadena. Can you et me a ---
personal letter of reetin from the son that can use to
strengthen my nnnr nh to t father?
LB0tJ he fi
s~in charge at eidelberg.
Is a physicist in Bonn who is doing theoretical work
on cyclotrons.
Clusius
Working in Munich on separation of isotopes by means of
heat. (Source scoffs at Kuhn's centrifuging idea due to the
infinitessimal difference in weight of the atoms involved).
Work of Clusius should be known to von Hailban, Austrian
physical chemist who is engaged in secret war work in Canada
and whose father teaches physical chemistry at Univ. of -
Zurich -- Oomething for WNardenburg when he, comes and I have
arranged a meeting.
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Forshungsstelle E, Bisiingen
Source will try to locate it for us, and we are trying
by other means as well.
Soutee knows the region. After a look at the map he
suggests it may be in the cellars of the nearby Burg
Hohenzollern which is a castle. built around a peak-that
protrudes up through its roof. The peak within the castle
is probably honeycombed with cellars.
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