TheCodeBreakers
VI, Foreign Intelligence. Amt VI was charged with the production of
secret information about enemy countries.
It apparently directed its thoughts mainly to the more traditional
methods of gathering such intelligence. But
shortly after the Anschluss, Walter Schellenberg, a young S.D. official,
seized the files of the Austrian secret service and found that among the
most interesting documents were those on cryptanalysis. This find may
have soon thereafter recalled to the mind of Wilhelm Hottl, a youthful
Austrian staff member of the new R.S.H.A., the World War I deeds of the
Austro-Hungarian cryptanalysts, which General Max Ronge had detailed
in an exciting book. Hottl discovered that General Andreas Figl, former
head of the Austrian Dechiffrierdienst, had been arrested by the Gestapo
in 1938. Hottl got Heinz lost, then head of Amt VI, to free Figl and to
install him as an instructor in cryptology in a villa in the Wannsee
section of Berlin
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