Report of Ticom Team 4 Visit to Southern Germany And
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....._--- REF ID4~4:C~95°'A""PA/cf-I(/~ T_.._. II. LOG-, INCLL':DTNG SIGNALS IIL DE'.i.'AILEJJ 'l.'ARGET REPOP.1'8 TIOOM 17JU'.1y 1945 No. of Pages 23 Dir: tribut j_o::-i: ~£·-...a....-.-. ·-'r ·u ":§~~ Director. ' I uP~20-·G (2) (via Lt. Pendergrass) D.D.3. G-~·2 (via Lt.Col. Hilles) · D.D.4. S. S,.A. (2) (via Major Seaman) D.D.(N.S.) Di!'8c.tor, S.I.D. El'OUSA (via Lt. D.D.(A.S.) Col. J oh.1'1Son) A.Do'(c.c.R.) (2) Lieut.Col. Leathern '-~ Chairma..."1 3.A.G .. (2) Cdr. Bacon ., CCl.r.. riiac ke:azi.e · Cdr. 'l'andy Lt. Col. Johnson Lt.Cdr. :Manson Major Seaman Lieut. Eachus Lieut. Vance Captain Cowan Lieut. Fehl TICOM :B1iles (4} . ; Declassified and approved for relea~e by NSA on 11-05 2014 pursuant to E.O. 1352e .' ... REF ID:A4148495 •' ' - 1 - SECT I.ON I. The following personnel _constituted Team lt- as it lef't .:Englrmd: Lieutenant Cormnander I:Ioward Campaigne, U.S.N.R~ Lieutenant ~relyn ·Talbot-Ponsonby, R.N. V .R • .Lieutenant 0hristopher Huntington, U.S.N.R • . Corporal. A.G. Abel, Royal Signn.ls; s.c .. u. 8 • ·and one Dodge 6 x 6 1t~ton truck. The original purposes of the trip ·were: 1. To contact Lieutenant Drayton Phillips, U.S.N.R., at Lindau,, exploit his target and bring. back the material he had already colle'cted;. 2. To vlsit Innrain 9 in Innsbruck and make sure tho.t · exploitation was complete; 3. To make sure that the Ins titut Prof!essor Vierling was properly, covered; 4. To join up with the N.I.D. 30 A.U. team in that area, ond visit with them the following_ list of targets: .(o.) FUESSEN (Bavnri11) Naval Exper:i.mentn.J.· Statioy{ possibly working on one man submarine experiment reported on the Aln.t See~* · (b) ~ZBURG -S IV/3 is here (acoeptonce auth~rity for mining and ba:r:Tage equipment for firms in Baden)•* Engineei:i.ng School for amphibious operations.* . ' (d)+LINZ-DONAU Artillerie Wn.ffenkormnando Linz n.t Linz Donau, Hafenstrasse 1n.. (e) LOFER Experimental Station for V~weapons and chemicals reported at GSGS 4416/Y.7/702966, in depression between· the Ochsenhorn and Breithorn mountains*(part_ of the Loferer Stein Berge). (f) STEP.HANSKIRCHEN (Near Rosen!leim GSGS 4416/XG/3227). Part of experimental station for Peenemuende transferred here, to "Teillager .des Fllikparks XI, Roser..hei.i:i". ' (g) STOCKDORFERWALD (s. Of Munich) Large underground research institute reported between Gauting and Planegg, m. the Murich-Walheim railway, and 4 kms. to the East of the small village of Stockdorf. REF ID:A414849S - 2 (h) +IBI.iAND CF MAINAU (Bcde11se0) . ' ' Experimental Station from ,Pesnemu9:1de evacu&ted here. No.val Torpedo Experimental Station•. ( j) -G.AID1ISCH-P P.RTENKIRCIUN·- * / Installations and personnel from Peenemuende (Target alreaey visited). ·f · ( k) .£13I!Rfil,£;if::1Jdl.FEN (a) Expe:::-i:men-tal Station on Lake Consta.-ice - liquid propellant ' f 1uels for rockets and engines, * (b) Maybn.ch Motorenbau ~ U-Boat pro·ts. * (1) MUNICH Secret do01,;;:i:J.ents of Daimler Benz in. the Francis:t:aner Kell~* ~~~ Firr:i.a· Linde r.!.8.king llq.J.i.c1 cxyge~-'- .y;:-oduction ecrJ.ipme:lt.""' (c) Dr. Rhode of Schwa:cz, Tassiloplai;z., .!1/un:~ch 9, Ma1r.ing infra-red apparatus,. * (d) Forsonungsansi;al·b de:c dsutscl1en Re:.,-:~1c:;nr1ort, Munich 19 Waissenham>str. l+ • . MDki_:ng !3(oci.J,'Ch ree8~.ve:r- aerials, . n.nti; radar equipment, et•J, (e) Stoekicht den:l.~n go~:r-.L~'.'.g fo:~ tu.:::obl~.~es ]:'o:t.' Wo.Uer~)oote·• . (o)-t;8flJ~ZB~G . (a) Obe:rste ·Bau..l_ei tung (Naval rada::') (b) Ve'.!'.'Wr.il hu•..gsgesellschaf·t. Makl:;1g pro:r.::i.ni.i"L:y fuses for , guiJed inissilez.* · (n) ~ (6 ko,<;. East of Ravensburg, · ~lear Lake Constence) Liquid oxygen prodtiction pla.'1.'~f .. Liquid oxygen production plant at Sueddeutsch~ Kalksticktof~Jr~e A.G. -:. (p) ·!WOLF-GANGS~ (Near Inru~bruck). ------- . S~V.K. Brru1ch Station (q)+GRUNDELSEE--= ' - (Near Aussee Linz, Austria)· C.P. V.·A, Laboratories. ·' (r) +]fil!.LSBER_Q. (Near Linz) · • Sper;.."Waffen .A;'.'.·senal, ' contaJ..ning. d epth oharge.J . and magnct19. mines.. * One. or t-v·m naval depai·tme;:1ts evacuated here from Berlin, in cluding Hydrogrc;.phic Printing, wj.Lin.11. n;.ay cc::!tain duta on Japan.* Dr. Por.sche anCi sb.ff e-;racuated horc fro!'.l. Stuttgart."' REF ID:A4148495 ,. - 3 - The TeaE1 was to be n.ugm.ented at .Wiesbaden by Captn.in M::i_Joolm Howgate,' 'I.e., who had gone there with some prisoners earlier, and at Pl;i.ris by Corporal Bigg:tn, '· Royn.l Signals, with the radio set "VALET". · The earlier part of the trip was t~ken up largely with clearing. the Team with various authorities, first at Paris wi ~h S.I.D. ETOUSA · · then at Wiesbaden with 12th .ArmY Group then at Frankfurt with SHAEF, Naval 1L'arget Subdivision then at Heidelberg with T-section, 6th .Army Group 'then aJc L!ndau with French 1st Ann~e, Section T. theri at Fre:i.si."lg with th~ Intel;ligence. Center, 3rd llriny and later at Saluburg with II' Gorps, ~~2 The ~arlier objectives were disposed 'of in ~he following ways: 1. · At Non."'lenhorn near Lindau. Lieutenant. Phillips was conta~ted, and a box of dopuments collected from him. It appeared . that they had come from Innsc~~:ilck, and that two of the or-.i.gincil: purposes ·of the trip were really one. 2. Innrain 9 in Innsbruck was visited nevertheless, and.found·to ·be in very bad condition. It. had already been visit~d by seven or eight different parties,· and previous to that had been set afire and then wet by the fire department. Although supposedly exploited, there was some doubt that. there might not be things there of value. Consequently the Teru:i returnea by way of Innsbruck and collected all the remaining material vrhich might .conceivably be of interest, le.avlng behind only that which .was already known or was 'in unusable condition. · 3. Lieu-tenant ·colonel Schroter, who wa·s tci' be contacted either in Paris or in Wiesbaden, was missed at both places (he skipped Paris and left Wiesbaden three days befbre the Team arrived). ,Radio enquiries assiTed us. that Vierling was being taken care of, so Terua 4 dropped the matter. 4. Lieutenants Besant and Coggin of N.I.D.30·A.U •. were met at Frankfurt with two trucks and a jeep and five other ranks. Lieutenant Commander Riley of N. T.• S. had the list of targets annotated as above (an asterisk means that the target had been visited at least once). Thereai'ter · Lieutennnts Besant and Coggin considered themselves attached to Team 4. Their orders expired on 30th June, but were extended on request.. On the return trip 30 A.U. l'eft Team 4 nt In.Tlsbruck. The t'argets 011 their: list which are marked with + signs were visited by Team 4. · . "'" - . ' Other' objsctives werf:i assigned by radio.. · The first wa~ to senrch the Schliersee area for traces of the archives of OKW/Chi. This was done very thorotighly with the help of a member of the Bavarian mountain police. Later the Team was directed to locate five persons of Oberst Boetzel's sta~f. This jo'Q .was only- begun when qrders cane to return to England. Details of these movem~nts can b~ found in the, attached log (See Section II). Particulars of individual investigations are appended to the log (See Section I'.\:I). In general every area visited W.flS being covered adequately either by special groups sent to particular targets, or by the routine organisations of Amy G~2, Division 'S-2,. C.I.C., or Military Government. Ih particular, however, Innrain 9 was·not being coveredcoopletely from the Sigint point· of view, . nor had the authorities at Schliersee heard of Dr.· Schaedel or OKW offices. It was 'at these two targets tha·t Terun 4 was able ·to conduct investi- gations the results· of which, e\'en thcugh largely negative, were more sub~ sta.ntial than those the rogular at~tho:riti6s were able to provide. REF ID:A4148495 SEGRE I - 4 SECTION II L 0 G Thursday, 14 June through Monday, 18 June~ War Station to Wiesbaden Party, consisting of Lieutenant Commander Campaigne, Lieutenant Talbot Ponsonby, -Lieutenant Huntingt('":n, and Corporal Abel (driver), crossed the Cha."'.triel by LST (Embarcation: '.I.'illmry), and proceeded to Wiesbaden -by way of Paris, arriving. there Saturday e-ven~.ng. Cbtain:Lng billets in Paris was difficult and time-consmni:ng for the reason that the crders issued by SHAEF contained no mention· of Paris1 a:nd it we.s sclely aB the result of :j:.ieutenant Corn.."'lallder- Campaigne's pers:Lstent p:ceser.tation of his ooze to Com..Z that that author.1. ty c.onr:;ent·ea. to billet the c-ffice:~s in Ca:cl·1;o:i. ~ s Hotel, :Montmartre, ana. thP. dr:.'L'··e:t:· at· the Hotel Ter·['.sse, Avenue Grana~ Armee. The visit to Paris wa:3 nea2esa::.."'y for two aimE:., both carried out: 111 1. To rick l:l.P SGU ';VALE'.1 , operated by qocyoral Biggin, I..:oyal Signalc; 2. To report to Director, S. I.D. ETOUSA, before proceeding. in addition, three further considerations made a visit ·t;o Pe.ris desirable: 1.