740.0011 European War 1939/9045: Telegram
The Consul General at Algiers (Cole) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 15—5:50 a.m.]
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.