Sovětská Hlavná správa rozvědky (Glavnoje razvčdnoje upravlenie - v protihrách Gestapa v Rakousku)

Soviet Main Directorate of Intelligence (Glavnoje razvědnoje upravlenije - GRU) in Radio Counter Measures of Gestapo in Austria

Autor: SLÁDEK Oldřich

SLÁDEK, Oldřich: Sovětská Hlavná správa rozvědky (Glavnoje razvčdnoje upravlenie - v protihrách Gestapa v Rakousku)

SLÁDEK, Oldřich: Soviet Main Directorate of Intelligence (Glavnoje razvědnoje upravlenije - GRU) in Radio Counter Measures of Gestapo in Austria. Vojenská história, 6, 3-4, pp. 100 — 119.

This study focus on intelligence landings from the UCCP and on the contra-games of Gestapo on the territory of present Austria (Ostmark) against Soviet intelligence central offices. The author has drawn knowledge from archival sources in Vienna and military archive in Freiburg. The author stresses the fact that Viennese Gestapo had played on the whole 24 radio contra games. Sanitzer together with his subordinates led 12 of these games with the main secret service headquarter (GRU), 4 of them with military secrete service of 3rd Ukrainian group of armies, one of them with - Moscow command of Austrian Communist Party, 3 of them with an English Intelligence Service, two of them with Frenchmen and one of them with American OSS. One of them — Postupim (Postdam) applied only within Austria. Especially the contra-games with Russian side brought about more significant successes. From the half of 1944 these games lost importance significantly and they concentrated more on intelligence deceiving of enemy in military area.

Keywords: Military History. Austria. The Second World War. GRU. Gestapo. Radio Counter Measures.

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Ročník: 6 | Číslo: 3/2002 | Stránky: 100 — 119