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d. Cooperation With Other Sections of KO Spain.
Only a minimum of news and opinion were exchanged between Referat
II and the other sub-sections. Information of I and III interest which
was gathered along with II material was merely passed on to the interested
sections. There were, however, some exceptions to this policy.
In Sevilla, Capt Antonio Ojeda and Patricio Diepel, neither of
whom were connected with II, were used in sabotage activities. Ojeda, a
member of the Spanish intelligence service, volunteered information on
maritime traffic to and from Gibraltar. Most of his reports came through
Referat . I. Diepel, a German resident of SEVILLA, contributed reports on
the internal political situation, police records, etc., some of which were
used by III.
Referat II obtained an especially valuable item of information for
I/TLw through Diepel. A Spanish air force colonel supplied a complete
description of a US four-engined bomber . which had made an emergency landing
In southern Spain. Various technical manuals were included in the report.
At the time (summer 1943), the Ahwehr was looking for such material, and
was anxious to obtain data on radar equipment, which was supplied in this
report.
Some III F functions were taken over by the II office after all
S-operations had been forbidden by BERLIN. Perfecto Brioso, a Falange information
service agent, had contacted Baldwin, of the US Embassy. Brioso,
who had been engaged by the Spanish III F service, had offered his services
to the II office without the knowledge of III F. Thus Blaum was able to
learn what questions Baldwin had asked Brioso and what cover answers Brieso
had been furnished by his own intelligence service. In one case, when
Baldwin screened a number of Germans with Brioso's aid, Brioso's cover
answers were supplied by the II office. Brioso's activities came to an end
when Spain decided to discontinue III connections with the U.S. Embassy and
Brioso refused to carry on without the shield of his awn organization.
Enrique Zabela, a Spanishfilend of a member of the II staff, claimed
to have established III F contacts with the British Embassy through certain
left-wing and anarchist circles, who in turn claimed to know Varela, a
Spaniard in the service of the British. KO Spain had always been extremely
interested in the results of Allied measures to gain support of Spanish
leftist parties. Zatela, however, was arrested by the Spanish police and
admitted having worked as a III F agent for the Germans.
Another III F man, Fernandes Fernandez, was engaged by Referat II.
A Spanish police agent in SEVILLA, Fernandez worked in a III F capacity
with the British Consulate, supplying British intelligence with lists of
arrivals and departures of aliens. He had also been asked to investigate
suspect German agents. Necessary answers, were, of course, supplied by the
IT office.
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