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would be found. When he showed the papers to Colonel Walsh, the director, Walsh felt that aside from amissing declassification stamp, not unusual to find missing, the documents looked authentic. With thedirector’s assurances that he would have the archives searched for anything relating to the subject, Wolfeconducted his own investigation in his National Archives files. There he discovered an original file withthe signature of Severin Wallach and this signature matched the one on the Sereny file. It also establishedthat Wallach was attached to the Berlin CIC at the time in question.After a considerable silence from Ft. Meade, Wolfe finally wrote a formal request to ColonelWalsh for all material in their files on Heinrich Müller and Odilo Globocnik. Several days later, Wolfereceived word that the Meade repository had no files on either Globocnik or Müller. Since Müller was amajor player in the intelligence game, the lack of any information was unbelievable to Wolfe.Sereny found this so upsetting that she came to Washington in person where she decided tocontact the OSI for their assistance. This agency, the Office of Special Investigations, is a small branch ofthe Justice Department established to track down possible ex-Nazis who had slipped into the United Statesby making false statements to the Immigration service. They had considerable investigative authority andSereny hoped that they could search the files at Meade for confirmation. In a meeting held with top levelOSI officials, it was mutually agreed that the documents in question contained potentially serious problemsfor both Britain and the United States and that any investigation had to be carried out thoroughly andpromptly.It came as no surprise that the special team of OSI investigators were able to locate a file onMüller and also on Globocnik in the Meade records. They did not give copies of these documents to eitherWolfe or Sereny but advised them that the file on Globocnik was very small indeed, while the one onMüller was only 40-plus pages and indicated that he was suspected of working for the Russians.In point of fact, the file on Heinrich Müller runs to over 130 pages as the author discovered whenhe received a copy in September of 1993. Fifty eight pages of the file, which is numbered XE 235539 WJ.,were withheld because the staff at Meade decided that they were currently and properly classified as Secretand Confidential and the release of these pages could “reasonably be expected to cause serious damage tothe national security.” Some of the material withheld appears to be concerned with an extensivecorrespondence between the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office concerning their apprehensions that theAmericans might know where Müller was. The German requests for information, which are withheld intheir entirety from the Meade file, and the American answers, which do exist but which are heavilycensored, tally exactly.The only mention in the entire file of a possible Russian employment is a brief report of March,1951 wherein a German informer named Dr. Wilhelm H. Schmitz claimed that he believed that Müllermight be working for Czech intelligence. There is no mention made of Russia but perhaps the OSI wasconfused.The OSI turned copies of the Sereny file over to the FBI for detailed forensic investigation. TheFBI checked the typewritten material and stated that the typewriters and the typefaces were correct to theperiod. They also ran the text of the papers through a computer system to check the style of writing withknown original reports of both Wallach and Venters. The reports indicated that the writing styles wereidentical.Various sections of the Justice Department checked with former CIC agents who knew both menand who verified the styles of writing used by both men. Sereny later located a former CIC officer whoknew both men very well and was told “It is extraordinary….The format is right, the methodology iscorrect, and given the personalities of the two people who allegedly wrote this, even the tone and thebreadth of the concept fits.”Instead of resolving the issue, these disclosures only created more problems. No one wished tocomment further upon the CIC file in general or on General Heinrich Müller in particular. His Meade file isfilled with references to his escape, references that are reinforced by reviewing the post-war Germanattempts to locate him. The final word from official Washington came from Robert Wolfe who had had theopportunity of witnessing the frenzied activities of terrified bureaucrats to hide historical cat boxes.When formally queried about his own opinions on the authenticity of the Sereny file he stated in a signedletter of August 19, 1993 on U.S. National Archives stationary... “based on all the internal evidence, thedocuments would appear to be authentic.”As to what actually exists in the Meade records, no one outside of that institution knows. The factthat they believe certain papers relating to Müller bear directly on current national security might tend toindicate that the Sereny file represents the tip of a very dangerous iceberg. In attempting to research thepostwar career of Heinrich Müller, the author wrote to numerous official agencies both in the United States