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Forschungsamt and the military. Schellenberg wanted them to
concentrate their intercept posts and cryptanalysts on Vichy and
Belgrade traffic for some information he needed. At about the same time,
Heydrich called the chief of the Wehrmacht signal organization and
asked him to send Schellenberg any information about American-
Japanese negotiations that he might obtain.
Himmler disliked such dependency and in March of 1942 he sent
Schellenberg to Goring's beautiful country house, Karinhalle, to urge
that the Forschungsamt be incorporated into Amt VI. Goring greeted him
in a Roman outfit, toga, sandals, and all, carrying his Reichmarschal's
baton, and, after hearing Schellenberg, said vaguely, "Well, I will have
a word about it with Himmler." Nothing happened, of course, and
Schellenberg, who at this time became head of Amt VI, set up a well-
funded department, to carry out research in secret communications
including invisible inks and microfilms as well as cryptography and