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SUBJECT: 1:9MarceliZSCHIC117,

REFF.RENCB: X_X- .10955 of 21 February 1946.

1. As we. stated in the reference pouch,.

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wk have prepared additional copies of the ZSOITUNKF

reports, and we enclose them herewith.

2. The longer report, headed "Pre-

liminary Report", is the Britia.h' SCI'. Unit v e stateinent.

The shorter report La evidently based on War Room•

documents. DECLASSIFIED AND RELEASED BY

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Preliminary Report on

CtUL. arcel ZCNNEBLECC, Marcel

Antecedent 's of ZSCi,UNKE

1915. . Martel ZSCdUNKE was born of German parentaEe at• Forest, (Brussels) in 1915. he speaks little of his fatherwho was a manufacturer of leather coods. His motherl,whohad lived for 25 years in aelgium, divorced her husbandand remarried a . German or Hungarian landowner. One ofZS.ChUNKE's step-brothers In burgomaster of A town inhungary.'

The greater part of ZSCHtfOKE's childhood was spehtin fairly luxurious circumstances in his step-father'schateau in Germany, he studied for his degree in German..Switzerland, under Swiss, German and English tutors. (Hesays that in the S.E. files one of the English tutorswas noted as an agent of the British Intelligence Service).kis reliulon was Protestant.

At the age of 17, he joined the Swiss section ofthe Nazi Party. Having completed his studies he returnedto Germany and joined the S.S. He received training at anS.S. ilitary School and was commissioned.

S.E.. Career

1939. In 1935 he joined the S.F. and travelled extensive-ly in several countries. in 19Y3 he was working in SpanishMorocco Spain and later went. to France on an S.D.mission. 57 ti11 later he was in Switzerland. posing as a .German diplomat whom he greatly resembled. He was a member.of the s.D. party whiCh organised. a listening watch on theconversations between Mr; Chamberlain and Monsieur Reynaud.

1910. After the French capitulation he was actively. en- .paged in S.D. affairs in France.'

1941/2. After a period in Russia during 1941-42 he wasnominated, at the end of 1942, for work in Brussels wherehe became head of Abt. VI. and engaged himself activelyin S.D.. affairs recruiting many akents.

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In Auust ZSCa'NE married a Belpn:ia national,rie-Josephinc ANT.. As his marriau was contrary to

S.S. 1 - eculat wions, L:LCat .71 as punished by beinp sent tothe Russian theatre in r, -,eptember 1943. duties tookhim to Bialystok. in (.!tcber .1.4.4 he returnedto Germany •and made application to work on . 5elc1an affairs aein.was -i•iven-a post in the section dealin with 7 /T drents-left behind in Belgium./1-,-

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BLR::,ihATT is said to have stayed in Germany -torecruit penetration aEents, some of Idiom would workagainst the Allies in Belgium, and would be sent tozcbuTwi:I via priorprior to ZCHii'sdeparture from Germany, BERNARD was replaced by a cert6inERNST (phonetic). 3Ea0.LIARD Was probably posted to anothersection of the

During this p'ex„iod his immediate chiefs wereStandartenfuehrW S7U41-1L, bead of Amt Vi an0 Cbersturm-bannfuehrer BiLRNAa57*head of Amt Vi These two work-ed to Brigadefuehrer'SCHELLFABERG, head of Amt VI and hein turn directly to 111.1,,R. Tbrking in BLRNEARD's officeWas a certain Gefreiter VeLRNUNFT. It is not clear ifViRtiAPT worked for .3ERNAR s. or STAIta, or for both.

Departure from Germany.

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/OnY2th April, 1945, 4hNARI: anel.,:S A lp, Oeliev.ing

';that ZSCLUNKL, had a r:bod chance of escapinr, to 1301.-..-.i ,f1 ;: sive himfinal instructions. STAIML gave him an authority to cross thelines where the demon armies were in contact with. the Americans.Z.ZCUT4E: and his wife, were in possession of false 7eigian identitycards in the names of ZON1',IEUJILN and ZONNL6neCz-ABEELL.

On the sape • day he and his wife left. thebarracks at 'unich in a German military lorry which carried themabout 20 kilometres. They continued on foot and stovoet for foodat a farm where they made contact with some ;'i rench refugees. 1:ithtnese refugees they were admitted to a. D.F. camp at 'Erasing(phonetic spelling) where they stayed. for two weeks. They werethen sent on to a camp at Linz for a stay of . 3 week 's. In thiscamp ZSClib was appointed . a section leader. The final journey'from Linz to Belgium tool,: them oy train via 1Y rance and lasted scoot7 days. They eventually arrived at the repatriation centre atNamur where ZSChUNK . deciared himself to have been 8 voluntaryworker in Germany. Despite sbm.e obvious faults in thu identitypapers, they passed all the controls and were given ''Ire-Cards'authorisinr them to i: c) to Antwerp where r2,,UUNKE had declared hisadres !7,! as 19 Rue du Pelican. Z3CH ISE. declared a surr of idL, 9645.(In connection with this idho. said that, in order.to explain his possession of such a large sum, iae nud stated thathean been sent to Germany . from. 6elgium for trafficking in foreigncurrencies 5nd that he 1as ., continued nis business .whilst in Germany

as a deportee. This story is in conflict with the previous state-ments that he was a voluntary worker. Efforts will be made toobtain an explanation of this discrepancy).

From Namur ZSCEUNieE, and his wife made their way toBrussels arriving on 7th June 1. 945. el° was arrested on 10th August1945.

ZSCHUNKE.'s instructions

The following are the instructione given to ZSCHUNE.by his direct chiefs, BERNHARD and ::TAIML en . 2S:'th April 1945.

ZSCEUNKE would endeavour to enlist the aid ofPersons whom he knew, both in Belgium and In other countries, andwho had already acted as his collaborators in various affairs.

The S.D. Objective was to build up centres ofespionage all over the world and also in the zones of Alliedoccupied Germany where agents had managed to continue to exist.These espionage centres and agents would endeavour to get into .communication with each other, principally by means of VT. Agroup of Nazis has been formed as a central radio control 'stationand would try to open up communication with the agents assoon aswas possible.

The followinc 'eeere 4::Cle6NHE's first objectives:-

To obtain good 'Belgian identity cards for himself -and his wife so that he can move safely from one hiding place toanother in case of need.

To leave BelgiUm and make his way to Caracas inVenezuela, there tp-oontact a former agent, JELABI..1,1,

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• • , • •.Once arrived in Venezuela he would count on ths

support ofiJELAMBY: to set himself up i n a large way in some kindof commerce. Once set up he would put himself at the disposalof the German espionage organisation in an honarary capacity.After the blows which his pride had reeeived•during the war he hadno desire to resume a post in the official hierarchy.

COMWJM. In general conversation, ZdC1.u 1hh has stated thathe does not envisage a Germany in its pre-war st07e for 30 to 40years and that there -fore his own espionage collaboration may notbe utilised for some years.

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has a very changeable character and it isnot always possible to make a definite statement of his intentions.The ponsibility that he might be able to get to Spain as an inter-mediary stage on his way to Venezuela has provoked an 'incidentalchange in his original intentions.

He wishes to get to Spain as soon as possible andthere get in touch with Germans and Spaniards . whom he knows.. inparticular he says that he,will obtain strong support from Germans t;engaged in Spanish commercial firms who are all . known to the Spanish •Government as -German agents. , be counts, too, on the help of a•personal friend 'who is a German impresario . (name as yet unknown)and on that of the Secretary-General of the Phalange.

1-1.. ith the help of these friends in Spain ZS.CifUliKEcounts on .getting away quickly and .eaaily. to Venezuela where hewill 'put . 'himself in the bands . of JE.LAKK in whom he seems to have'blind trust'..

Conclusion

From the information as far received there is noevidence that ZSCiiIIKE naz.3 knowledge of, or any means of contact-ing, an already existing S.D. espionage organisation which hasscommunication with a Central Control. The amount of money in hispossession does not suggest that he is able to finance a new organ-isation. It is therefore considered that 'LS C riUll KE is going outInto the blue s and that any espionage activities which he may

undertake will be dependent on his own Initiative or on his chancesof finding an espionage organisation in Zouth America through theagency of .TbLA.e.31.

APPENDIX A.

Pdssible agents whom ZSCeiliNe hopedto contact in Belgium.

Lives in hue or Avenue des Phallenes, Brussels,as formerly manager of one of the branches of the Societe Generale

de Belgique. During the German occupation he financed dealings intobacco in Germany end in Basle. Vlas Hon, Consul General for Belgiumin Alexandria. 12uring the German occupation he engaged in a leer;eway in importing Cognac from France into Belgium. Vies half owner ofthe firm Alimex with its head office at Cassel, Germany. Has aluxurious office in the Shell Buildings, Brussels. i ormerly anagent of the 2eme Bureau. Has a mistress born in the Dutch EastIndies of a Japanese mother and another mistress in Cologne. asreleased from a Belgian prison about a month ago. He introducedZSGEUNK15 into Belgian business circles and supplied him with Belgianmoney against Reichmarks paid by ZSClillYiKE into the account of thefirm Alimex with a German bank. ZSCHUNki. describes him as beingexceedingly well mannered, discrete and very cultured. ZSChUNLEstill owes him 32,500 Belgian francs.

MARECiIAL. Shareholder and Joint-Manager of the Phoenix worksZI-riemalle Haute, Belgium. Is Germanophile by sentiment and be-cause of his interests in Germany.

Shareholder and Joint-Manaeer of the Phoenix worksat Flemalle Eauter-Balgium. Is Germanophile by sentiment and :be-cause of his interests in Germany.

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hATZAROif. A friend of MAREGAAL and NEETS, living at 69 Ruedu Pare, Lieg e. Nationality Bulgarian. Also an official of thePhoenix works, ne sOcceeded at the beginnine of the war by deviousmeans in cornering most of the commerce between Bulgaria and Belgium.He was a friend of LkaRENZ who succeeded ZSGEUNKL as head of Abt VIin Brussels, and was a great ladies' man. ZLChUlTiei:; described himas "an accomplished rogue".

P1TTERY., living at 24 osterij, Ghent. Aged 50-55. holds e degreeof Coloni- , 1 .mngineerinc from the university of Gh(nt. Is an exporton colonial plantations especially cotton. Germanophile by sentiment.He introduced SSCIiIK,ah to his brother-in-law YIELVAERT.

: taLVA.E.RT, a specLelist in Railway equipment and rolling stock and inMarine affairs, but above all a financier. In exchen,ee for certainfinancial advantages l iE.LVAER1 furthered some of the projects of

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ZSCHUNE who wished to send. some of his agents to the BigianCongo. The business was being arranged with the help of PiTT..F.h.,but failed owing to lack of interest from aerlin. h. LVALhT wasalso supposed to have worked for the British.

GILCTI Mathieu. Living at 47 ChaUssee Arthur Uoemaers Antwerp.TEd4n- at Mulhelm (Rlahr) of a German mother.. Interested in the

A1? business of the Societe Generale de Belgique, and also interested

in colonial trade. May possibly be in Switzerland at the moment.G1LCT was connected with an engineer named RUETZ and a certainENGELS who was a10 engaged in colonial affairs. These threeworked on behalf of and gave full arid complete economic-Informationon the Belgian Congo to Korvetten . Kapitain PEUCER . and • his assistantVon BOLLAEUFER, who were directors. of the Koloniale PolitischesAmt Situated Rue de Namur, Brussels. .

DEPREZ, living on the corner of the Avenue Louise and Rue Blanche;on.the same side as Place Stephanie, Brussels, In ZSCHUNKE'sservice his coda name Was EDEP. Under the protection of ZSCEUNKEhe carried on an enormous black market business and in exchangefor protection supplied ZSCUUNKTL with economic information andreports on resistance undertakings of which he came to have know-ledge. He worked . 'in co-operation with his brother named AMAN whooperated from Paris.

(J1211LA_living at Avenue Bru:gman ., Brussels, a Rexist Barrister whomZSCHUNKE met at the home of DEGRELLE. ZSCHUNKE is counting onDUBOIS to enable him to find UDEIGE MAX. •

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y:.onsrbaE; e,rehts whom ZSCi:jUNLF hopes to contact outside Belium.

.3olcian Commercial Attacne at the 3eigian •Emiyassy in -opa l n. has been working for the Cermans for several years.-,as in direct contact with a German personality whom ZSCdUILdoe'- not know. ZSCAUNKE however, once had the opportunity tosee some of the papers from GR1SAH's file, notably the copywhich GRISAR regularly sent to 3erlin of all the secret documentswhich the Belgian Foreign kinister, k. SPAAA:, sent to hi 0 repre-sentatives abroad. ZSCRUNKE saw, as well, the copy of a lettersent by Pl. Van ZEELAND to the Belgian Ambassador to Spain, M.De TH1Eh or DETillERE. This last document was sent to Berlinby URLiAi on 5.1.45. GRISAh works for large sums of money.

The j-erman IMFRESAIiI0. At the enc of 1939 or beginninE of 1940he organised a concert given by Peter LR171,111:nh at the f-alais des

•-, eaux Arts, Brussels.

The Secretary General to the rpanish 1-ha1anFe. ZSOLJAh^r, willoffer him nis services and as for a Fessport to get him (ZC

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Bi'zNOT Supposed to be in t'aris at the moment (his__—.71-0,70s, may be received later on). ZSCAITNE 4 's agent in Francefor . economic information. Vk)11 thought of by both BERN.HARUand ZSCHUNKb. 3orn of a German father and Russian mother.Germanophile by sentiment, he worked for the German intalliuenceService in Russia Thile he was in the Army Denikine. Formerlya mananer vith the :7)elcian Caisse dfLpargne.

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Ottavio. Nationality Venezuelan. A chemical engineerwho studied in 3elrium. Thanks to ZSCariNia„ was able to leave

Curihr the German occupation an -=, since hi 8 return -toVenezuela has remaiheo in , contact with ;:ermliny.imoortant position in Caracas and has an uncle with s. greatdeal of influence in the Venezuelan Government.. Ue • is a con-vinced a6herent of the "new . order".

Genera l Information iiven by 2SCHUT4hE on the Activities of the S.D.

The S.D. is divided into Amt's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.

Amt 6 is divided into 6a, b, co d, e, fo g, Mil, S.and Z. It Is concerned with the estern Countries of Europe.The Chief of Amt 0 is brigadefuehrer SCiiELLENBER0 0 who worksdirectiyIto

The headof Amt 6b is Standartenfuehrer STAIML.,

STAIML I s assistant is Sturmbannfuebrer RE1CHL. Atthe time of the attempt against . HITLER's life on 20th July 1944.REICIAL was an Oberleutnant at the Fanzerschule in Berlin. heattracted attention to himself by arrestirw, on his own initiative,members of the organisation which made the attempt on HITLER. Asa result he was transferred to the S.D. .

Fection Vi B 2 is concerned with 3elgium and France,its head is Obersturmbannfuehrer was 3ERYEARI:)Isrepresentative in Brussels.

orkin in BZRI:dARD r s office were a certain GefreiterVidiNUNFT. VERNTNPT was a doctor of science, and highly thoughtof by STALL because of his scientific, economic and politicalknowled y7e. -4e was a Gefreiter in the V:Fehrmacht as he had neverwished to become a NeADer of toe S.S. through fear of theconsequences - to him in case of a Geran defeat,

Just prior to Z.SQ:IUNE's departure from Germany 13R.1q--.idARD had been replaced by a certain ERNST (phonetic). Probablythis was only an internal service change, 3ERNhA1{D . ftavinp: beentransferred to anotner section.

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In conversation iC.hUhh said he t:fA not know how.CA.UL haf pohot.rat

but he knows of only one case where a British subject had beenused by the .Germans. This was a man who was convicted for .Committing a crime and was sentenced by the Germans to lifeImprisonment. As an alternative to being imprisoned he wasoffered the choice of becoming an agent and was parachuted intoEhlanó, from where he hiad work.ed for a considerable Period,(unfortunately an further datcu or details have been-obtained)s1

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1he s.r. organised the surveillance on 1-;-le PrenchArmistice Commission at Wiesbaden in 1940. All tne secretdocuments of the :rench Commission were photostated by an S.E.agent before they were sent on to their destinations.

"SChULLN15ERC- of Amt VI organised the kidnappihr ofthe , ritish Secret Service agents at Venlo, Holland. SCUELLF,11-BERO was assisted by NOIAS or NOILS (S.C.I. comment; thismust be. 14UJOC-1;.S) and the Professor De GRIN'. Towards theend of ''the German occupation of i3e1gium FOiAS had an officeat 44 Rue aux Laines, Brussels. This was probably an officeof the Brussels section of Ibteilung V controlled by d0FMEIETEh.NCIAS was also one of the principal German agents orgallinaiii.7---agitation and disruptions in Czechoslovakia.

According to ZSCHUN&E the following W/T sets werein operation after the liberation of 'estern Euro pe by theAllies:-

a. One .n Antwerp, working to a control stationat Hamburg and supplying information onmilitary activity up to April 1945.

b. A set in Marseilles which worked.irregliarlyup to the capitulatiOn.

c. A set in Faris which the . Germans believed tobe controlled by the Americans. •

ZSCHUNKE himself was engaged in intrugues in Spain andSpanish Morocco (especially in Tetouan), Italy and Poland. InPoland ZSCHUNKE edited a -Polish newspaper in Bialystok undercover of Polish journalists. ZSCklUILWs wife helped him in thisbusiness.

ZbCaUNK: Marcel ALah.0 (1:742): KaiseraamDATa 13.1.1t/15. gd. aerlinPLAC " " : Brussels, Belgium Chbg.RELIGION: rv.SP- ht. Or uhr::•Fureign intellirence. (Specially suited for

intelligence requiring knowledge of Frenchlanguage.)

SS NO: •111 843.RAjK: Ustuf.

12.5.58: Ostuf,9.11.42: Astuf.

LA1TGUAGES: German, French (bilingual), workinr knowledge ofEnglish, can translate Spanish, Portuguese andItalian.

CAREER IN TEL SS:-

1934:

April '35:April '36:

April /37:

Called up to Fuehreranwaerter Course in Ellwanger(\effen FaS) for Junkerschule Braunschweig.Transferred to 'Braunschweig.Transferred to SD Hauptamt. Attached to SD Ober-abschnitt Breslau where'he was able to get ansiFht into the outside activities of the SD. Zhad special interest in the then existing "III Arbeit".By this time had taken further courses an heddetailed knowledge of all special branches of theSD. .

-From then onwards, until'.Amt Vi was established, Z. was

.attached to the then existing Central Dept. III 2 (ReferatsFrance, Holland/Belgium and Austria) and later was appointedLeiter of the newly established Central . Dept. III 3. Duringthis time he had the opportunity of making official trips to'France, • Spain, Spanish Morocco and Italy. Bia trip to Spain.enabled him to acquaint himself personnaly with the V .-Mann net.

Z worked almost exclusively for Amt VI when this Departmentwas established (in the Autumn of 1939). Be was entrusted withsupplying intelligence from France. Vihen Paris was occupied, Z.,In consequence of an agreement with the 'Oerman'Ambassador inParis (Abetz) carried out SD work within the sphere of Embassyacti-vitl .en. This work was completed within four weeks end uponhis return to Amt. vi he waa.upalatc:1 rlf tbe ReferatFrankreichs At the beginning of May 1941 he was appointed Leiterof."Referat Schweiz..."