740.0011 European War 1939/9045: Telegram

The Consul General at Algiers (Cole) to the Secretary of State

90. Following Germans now Algiers on German Control Commission: (1) Von Schneditz (see my 7, January 485); (2) Dr. Schmidt, Gestapo agent, reported known in Brussels before war as Leduc; (3) Behrens; (4) Major Battre, Gestapo chief, arranged Dollfuss Putsch85a and head of raid on radio Vienna, most dangerous of all; (5) Kolb; (6) Mohr, Gestapo under Battre; (7) Naval Captain Kreschmer; (8) Hoffman, legal adviser.

All reports here indicate massive infiltration Morocco maximum 6,000 with 800 officers men Casablanca. Apparently no such action here.

Cole
  1. Not printed.
  2. Engelbert Dollfuss, former Austrian Chancellor, was killed by Austrian Nazi rebels on July 25, 1934, when they seized the chancellery.