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Himmler, and the head of the SS economic section, Oswald Pohl, were well aware that theSlovenian SS general had made off with money belonging to the SS, and the U.S. National Archives has anextensive file of correspondence between the trio, a file that also contains lists of stolen valuables.Globocnik, who ended up in Syria as a corresponding member of the CIA-controlled Gehlen Organization,was never able to recover any of his hidden treasure, but his disclosures to his captors, and later employers,led to an extensive treasure hunt after the war.Globocnik supplied a map overlay which he claimed showed the exact locations of each burialspot along with a brief notation of the contents. The problem, as noted in U.S. reports, was that the overlaydid not correspond to the standard German Wehrmacht 1:50 000 scale maps of the Alpen- und Donau-Reichsgaue of 1944. Other military maps were checked with equally negative results and the officialopinion expressed both in the United States and England was that Globocnik had sold his captors a bill ofgoods.In the following years, the thought of the buried treasure had energized a number of people fromvarious countries and the Weissensee became a very popular vacation spot. In the winter, when the groundwas frozen, the visitors were tourists partaking of winter sports. But in the summer, the guest registries inthe various inns and pensions indicate a remarkable number of visitors from Germany, England and Israel,all of whom were no doubt seeking rest and relaxation in the deep pine woods or out on the placid lake.Globocnik, however, had not sold his captors a bill of goods. The transparent overlay wascompletely accurate and it was the lack of persistence of both the British and Americans that led them todiscount the validity of the treasure map.Obtaining the overlay was one matter, after all no one believed it officially, but trying to find outwhat kind of a map Globocnik might have used was quite another. Eventually one was found in a shop inKlangenfurt which was of a pre-1938 printing and dealt specifically with the Weissensee area. It hadoriginally been produced for hikers and was never used by the military.When the overlay was placed over this map, the markings on the edges matched perfectly with themap, even down to penciled in lines showing the roads and trails that existed in the years before the war.On this overlay, which was folded and repaired with transparent tape, were nine crosses marked inindelible pencil and after each mark was the notation “10 Kisten” or “8 Kisten,” and brief notations aboutthe depth of the burial sites such as “1.5 m.” The translation of Kisten is box or crate and the metric depthsare obvious.When the information about the positive location of Globocnik’s horde was confirmed in 1989,individuals in possession of the overlay and the map embarked on an expedition to recover as much aspossible, if not all, of the buried treasure.Under then-current Austrian law, the treasure trove was to be divided equally between the finderor finders, the government of Austria and the owner or owners of the land on which it was found. Verydiscreet inquiry with agencies in Vienna disclosed that the Austrian government did not view their formerGauleiter’s money as having been acquired through criminal activities and that, therefore, the division ofthe find was to follow standard procedure. Had the government decreed that the buried money resultedfrom a criminal endeavor, the state would assume complete control over it and its eventual disposal.Given this written assurance, four individuals embarked on a treasure hunt which, if successful,would rival any other such hunt, even the discovery of the Spanish treasure galleons in the waters ofFlorida. Two of these entrepreneurs were American. One was a CIA employee who worked in Berlin…forboth the Company and the East German Stasi. and the other was along because of his possession of themap and overlay. The other two seekers were a German, once an officer in the SS and a former aide toGlobocnik, and a Ukrainian SS man who had been involved with the original plantings, but had no specificmemory of what he helped bury, and more important, where.There were nine sites involved. One site had been discovered and looted by Globocnik’s Britishmilitary captors in 1945, another had been paved over as a parking lot for a postwar inn and wascompletely inaccessible. Jackhammering up sections of asphalted parking lots was apt to draw the ire of thebuilding’s operators as well as the completely unwelcome attentions of the Austrian gendarmes.The remaining seven deposits were the goals of the recent arrivals at the towns of Techendorf andNeusach. It was decided to break the group into two sections for security reasons, the two Americansrenting quarters at Neusach and the other two remaining at Techendorf.The German had rented a camper wagon and was pretending to be deeply interested in healthfultours of the woods while his Ukrainian companion developed an equal interest in rowing about the lake ina rented boat, looking for ideal fishing spots.