HEADQUARTERS 12th Al : GROUPSCI DETACHMENTAPO 655 USA

XR5'7DECLASSIFIED AND RELEAStD BY

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE A6ENCY

SOURCES METHODS EXEMPT I 0113B2B

NAZI WAR CR IMES DISCLOSURE ACT

DATE 2001 2005

18 rune 1945

SUBJECT: Hildegard BEETZ, nee BURKEIARIV, SD Executive and Agent11.44,■014

TO : Chief,. 0Th, G-2, 12th Army Group

Following is a report from Lt. Stewart FRENCH, SCI Detachment,Munich:

1. D. Wilhe for SouthEuro e • — - now n rd Armyn erroga on enter, volunteered information that an important .

•woman . executive and agent of the Ater was to the best of his know..ledge living in WEIMAR. She was Frau Hildegard. 'BEET; . .nee •BUREHIRDT, cover name "FELICITASR . Dr. HOETL stated he believed':she had in her possession important Italo-German official records,•including the personal diaries of the late Count CIANO -during his years'a:s Foreign Minister of ITALY.

2. Frau 13EETZ was interrogated by representatives. of:Ape ..MUNICH and WEIMAR SCI Detachments at her parents' home, Belvedere • ..411es 14, WEIMAR, on 14 June and the following infOitati:On:

, . .3. she unquestionably has detailed knowledge

alities and events of- .AMT VI, ITALY; ; from 1940: touary 1943 to August of that year she was in fa -exeouthe AMT in Rom .reporting directly to Herbs APPZiERAt ache in ROME • o, in turni."rigiOrted d

She also' worked -in tiurblv-OXIX070g.:,-..where: :abe was head ant/iit .; ..tintes• the 'o

Thporta s.:04 'other Italian . documents. •' ,

" 4.. In September'1943, Dr. HOWL Sent:::• agent of ARP ito obtain from ClANG, then

AIZMAMBHAUSEN on the Stamberger See, near ../IONICHkHer'..0:0101W4;' that;ovvino*Ei secretary and AtiaiislatOt

: ,0.11 th SeCtit meetings,: negetilOant,..and whebtQLduring his years as Foreign Minister. - .

6.' ; 'She Ot.Oes. that she 'VAS *611)wierliiessense, 'i 4,0tib1e0,S8Iied- the .PD;;.:: • She . de llia08 : .101W .- 4mistress, 'but POS.EOETL along the iifleiself lAiggeated... indc 1VOrkOk cidIATthe SD te • CTANIrt:.:001+.0 a -

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, 8. On 18 October, CIANO was transferred . to a prison inVERONA, ITALY, and on 3 november Frau BEETZ was sent there to him fromBERLIN by Dr, HOETL,.who had fought against giving ciAIn up to theItalians.. In VERONA, she saw CIANI every day in his cell, and

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reported to OETL ihrough k4W_Genera, head of t#0 SIPO and SDfor ITALY. Through her effoits, -KELTMRUNNER and HOETL came toINNSBRUCK in. January 1944 to negotiate for CIANO's papers: .KALTEN-BRUNNER gave her a letter to CIANO written in his own longhand •promis!-ing to have CIANO freed if he surrendered all doculents of -.interestto Germany. CIANO agreed. . • •

• '7, Frau BENZ went by guarded automobile to ROM, where • • •she obtained seven volumes ot secret Foreign Office docUments from a .hiding . place in. a. private address that CM° had given her. She ••turned these papers over to HARSTER, who himself flew them to BERIX.N.At the time he confided to her that HITLXR personally had refitsed....-tO.Y.!:-lpermit the release or CIANO, but that the OD was 'going toi..s:-obtetin..:all

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. .8, • She wrote -a letter of protest at the double croirr•to . • ..

ICALTENERTTNNER, but his only reply was a large bouquet of roses,.• thank.lag her for havin gdone a good sob. Meanwhile a plan for:ICIANO..•to—escape tailed when a guard was transferred the day before. (EppAalto! had- suebeeded smuggling some poison to CUM, tookthe night before his Iceoutioli b e to work).. .

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d made into an agents' headquarters. In charge was VOETTEL- of therD GRENWPOLIZEI who *.r nuplw„.of SD agents from the house?

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so an a en under Gen returne(fi;-Oiii.SVITZERIAND him of`theFaTLER-MUSSOLINI oorre, pdenoe, repor their meetings, anet-her dootWon • T --0—Gar AL - ERMAN relations. PANCINO Stated

. that EDDA. bad told him there were six or seven copies of thesepapers .in existence. - Frau BEETZ herself -knew of three .copies - one In COM,one near COMO and another at the house of a Partisan sympathizer in - •RAXILOLA. .

. , .13. Roping to forestall discovery of the . Partisaie.s - . 1 ••

activities ., • Frau BEIMZ states she took a not too bright' 'member oil theA.•.3D .. and' went 'alone to the house, and obtained the doonmehtti.::. She tootthembaok e by train to .the . A.MT n office in BERLIN. HOETL.: •`had4 .• by. . •

. this time' • gone to HUNGARY, and his deputy .couldn't .read.anY',.1.talien:;:..FranBEETI was given the-lob of translating the entire .set from Italianinto German, - On the Pretext of wanting to be with her mother, . '00 she

• said was 11l,. she obtained permission to do this work at hii • hOnie : in' s. -WEIMAR. There she made.a .n .-original and one copy for the 118114, and one

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15; CIANtr•e'r.ee.fren■fltoluitii diary *an kept 4.4•• ••bo-and no. copies were :tiver. ; :siadei Frau BEETZ inajate. Shir:

• tire ...still: in EDD.A.'s : pcooieapton in pvaTzxgrdivp - TheY::*with the correspondence, and further digging by SOT' infailed to 'reveal th.01; :-Or:any, other :Material of interes

" -.. The Papers have tieSn.delivered'per.0,0n.afte*.,p;eOper•.:1104"0.00dith

persona1'.41:00(1i'Aettet* ficOnlUggl•i•-•.end drift* Of .reporte- :Tran : B4,61.4:made to her .0uperiors.kept with the bOdy. 1.41-1117.*Alt in .01itito4y of SCI..

copy , for herself. •,

14, At the time of the German Collapse thin prbullied: this, copy, tog-ether with certain personal papeXTof to 110=14 :etc.. iñatin box beneath: an':iPpl*the 'strawberry pate)); of her garden. There the SOT agentAC,

: there they found the tin box with the papers, which 41)0as important bed them.-- • .

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17. The eFrau mem ,.9bta4zed'were translated' .

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184 . 1 ierau 2E4= 1 who JR an attractive young woman of 25 Andgives an appehranee-Xshyness and modesty, speaks excellent Englishand talks willingly/ Personnel record is as follows:

• a. BottLX.Z€44-.1.9.1.9.41..g.tglalla.,A.Dolmetscher School for Translators atWEDMAR Arbeteant to . SD WEIMAR. in Oct.there until Tull,* when she was sent tofor AMT VI-E

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et. In Ally 1942, Fran'BETZ returned to ROME as secretaryto the new'AXT -1/I representative, Helmut- LOOSS. When !DOSS, Joinedthe,Waffen SS in Russia and was not replaced, irrau became, -practical Put.poses, deputy for AMT TI under police attache ICAP.F., -- •

• After the BADOGLIO coup in August 1943, all taermaii,wemployees were evacuated from ROME.. Frau BEEMreturned . to .Bto work under HOWL,- then new chief. of Amir VT Referat.c

Prot Sept 43 to- Zuly. 44i.- She was engaged:- on 'theotestrion• She faflsists she double-crossed the SD in an orb'

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b, ALEXESEFF elan,) Claimed to have friendsin U.F. Naval At re es in ri0117. re made reports on mattershe purportedly heard discussed therein..

0, An Englishman, believed to be a college professor,living in Genoa with his Italian wife. Frau 13gETZ once brought him5,000 dollars in UZI currency which she states was NOT '7) counterfeitedforeign mane -pox-

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Priest in the employ of the SD, Italy. --

s execution, IslUFs011ia attempted toA by sending, privately, .Fathe r. PAWING

here Era had. been platted in a conventII cover ceriff—was ERTCKp PANCINO -

or SS General 11ARSTAR, h et' Of SIP° and SD

• Frau BEETZ statati Father PANCINO made a number •

of :trips birtween:,::0Witzsrland and Italy * . becoming confessor toto :114.1/ * . . • .

si41314i'dee'iption is . as follows:.. AgE

'km; zed.ium build; dart-/c , :brmozt.*tes; liarrOw. racket *44 ' glaSiS

Ambitigins - torIVO'erence within Oburob..'

TZ is an extrineli::intelligent"Perscii . with an101! arbor int4sates::personal..knoWladge.

thatas'.."be taken to 12th . ,.00.4iiterrogat141.1;, It %A;;,f1:41#0-'-.1r_80.01400,,-. that' Lt. FLEX hie oonthicttn thf!-esiAfOrrOtrattenjthiv tarli3OgatiOn ,:.-Ce-Aterii)-.•beipe*itt.edi . to question her au

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