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EILITZ, Herbert WilhelmACTION REQUIRED . REFERENCES .

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Refs: A. EGNW 12363;B. EGNA 59994,.25

1. As promised inquarters traces on Subject:

a. EILiTZ, Herbert,Born circa 1906.Berlin, was appointedto deal with Nearhair, dark eyes,German Primer)

Reported to be concernedbly Palestine. (

c. ESHER, Dr.misear in the SIPO(Source: SHAW cards.)

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Herbert, born circa 1907,Dese: 174 cm tall,

hair, heavy black eyebrows,Osten under Dr. GRAVE.Democrat. Be started astook the Kommissar course

MERZ, born 7 April 1910and then posted to Amt

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HQ in the Near East. Thiailink was to be exploited by Ami VI for itsown purposes. MERZ explained that. the MiP (Sword and Plough) aimed atcollaboration with the Germans against their common enemy Russia andhoped to become not only the main political factor in Poland but alsothe greatest military power. Among other things EILlTZ instructedNEM to penetrate Greek underground organizations to discover a meansof sending a courier to the Near East and to report to HOESSELBARTH(Herbert) in Athens. NERZ also claimed that EILITZ told him that he(presumably &LITZ) had been instructed to recruit Polish workers inthe oil-fields of southern Poland for sabotage purposes. EILITZstated the saboteurs would probably be trained in Poland and thenmight be transported to Iran by air. (Source: GHQ, M.E.F.Interrogations of NERZ dated January and November 1944. WASH X2 INT54 and in 55)

e. Lt. Dr. ENNER, SD employee met in Berlin and Athens:Dese: 5'7" tall, medium build, but with broad shoulders, darkor sunburnt complexion, dark hair and eyes, low forehead, pro-truding ears, oval face. Not impressive, a playboy type. Netalong with other SD officer's in Tunisia during 1942. Also usesthe name mummt, Was in Athens sometime between April and July'1944 and assisted in dispatching Source on Source's mission toSyris. for Ant VI. M012 Prior late September 1944. (FYI Only:Source is Edmond CHACA French national, who was apprehendedas a German agent on or about 23 September 1944 on the Turkishcoast. The info quoted above is from a British report whichin turn summarized the French Surete interrogation of CHACUN.CRC(, accompanied by his wife and a Tunisian WiT operatorhad a mission against Syria and was apprehended before hisarrival in Syria. WASH BEG Int 173, XX 5425, 22 February 1945.)

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f. MITZI Herbert aka Dr. ENVER, Obersturmfuhrer: DOB:Ca 1906. Description: 5'6" tall, well built, dark hair, browneyes, yellowish skin, clean shaven, handsome features but dis-sipated appearance, very bad teeth, spoke even German badly andhis attempts at French and English were comical. EILlTZ spentfreely and his accounts were always in a chaotic condition.Married, he had three children. BYIITZ had,been the BMA AmtVI C 13 local representative in Athens since early 1944 having.been appointed to succeed Bruno TAPPENBECK. Before this be wasattached to the Beadqgarters in Berlin. Be was formerly a traf-fic policeman in Germany/ attended special schools and was pro-moted to the rank of 'Criminal Kommissar. He claimed to be theonly specialist in Athens and complained that all other membersof the BMA department were wartime amateurs. He frequentlyboasted of his own position as an old police officer and partymember. EYIITZ was hospitalized in Athens for a period duringeither late March or April 1944. Source learned in mid-Nay1944 that EYIITZ had been recalled to Berlin in disgrace andwas replaced with Obersturmfthrer Hermann KOHLHAAS.

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While in Athens, EYIlTZ was primarily concerned with arrangements indispatching SD agents to the Near East, particularly Syria. Sourcewas one . of these agents and spent a considerable time with EXLITZ inAthens And also in Berlin. Shortly before Source's dispatch to theNear EWA, EYL1TZ told him that his friend Hans MERZ had earlier beendispatched to the Near East by Bruno TAPPENBECK (TAPPEBBOECK) and haddisappeared. According to EYISTZ, MERZ was an old police friend whohad worked with him on BMA matters in Germany and Poland. tyri Only:Source is Pierre de Letay, born 18 November 1894 in Magyar-Lapos, 4Rumanian national, who was recruited by Amt Vi C for a political intellmission to Syria. He was apprehended on or about 24 August 1944 whenhe arrived at the Turkish defense post of Foca and officially arrestedby the French 8uret6 in Aleppo on 3 September 1944. Under interrogationhe confessed his mission an9Lprovided detailS COn RSHA plans. LeTay andCHACUN were staged through Stiqqa aid. ,4141 at the same time and were

t•acquainted with each other. WASH REG 1 3, xx 5154, 3 February1945. British report.)

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g. EYLITZ, Hastuf. and "Criminal 'Commissar: =LITZ recom-mended Hans MEMZ for MERZ's mission to the Near East, assigninghim to the Near East Section of Amt VI C. EILlTZ had met MEBZa few arnth.P earlier at a 'Commissar course. Since the end of1942 Ant V/ C 13 bad a representative in Athens first underTAPPENBOECIC, then XOHLHAAS. XYL1TZ was last reported a memberof Ant VI C 12 in June '44. (Comment: This may be a typingerror and it possibly should read C 13. In any event this isstill a part of the Near last Worst.) As of February 1946Allied forces had no record of BYIlTZ's whereabouts and notedhe was among the Ant VI C officers not yet apprehended. (32-5-3-y21 XMAZ 1689, 18 October 1950. From Counter IntelligenceWar Boom, London report of 28 February 1946.)

h. Possible trace on Subject: A Gestapo man named Dr.MINER from Leipzig expressed himself to the effect that manyof the higher-ups among the Gestapo were willing to collaboratewith the Allies while talking with a Turkish diplomat. Dr. EBNERevidently worked most of the war in Breslau. He is a criminalcommissar and a captain, and reportedly shoved great friendli-ness toward interned Turkish diplomats. Comments There is noindication in the report as to the then location in Germany ofDr. HONER. The report was evaluated Y-3 and date of informa-tion prior 15 March 1945. (WASH REG IN? 84, T-3557, 15 March1945. Sources: Info supplied. by a Turkish vice-consul and aTurkish student vbo bad almost completed his studies in Germany.)

2. We have been unable to confirm Subject's activities prior toJune 1942 when be entered the "Criminal "Commissar course also attendedby DjMEOWSY other than to attest to his former police status andprobable assignment in Aachen during 1941 or 1942. There is no recordof his service on the Russian front. The BDC records which are notavailable in his Heatiguarters file might be able to fill in thisperiod as well as substantiate his claims of taking charge of interneddiplomats near Deggendorf in 1945 more than the possible trace citedabove in para 1 H.

.3.,: . Thetracestabove with the exception of those portions markedFYI may be passed Alias FLEMDMS,::at . the same time pointing out to himthe'aoukce . saterial is largely joint Allied holdings, particularlyBritish4 . 94 noted in paragraph 6 of_reference A4 and he is to handleit accordingly.

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