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2. SUBJECT, AFTER COMPLETING TRAINING AS A LOCKSMITH ANDTOOL MAKER, WENT TO ROTTERDAM IN JANUARY 1929. HE WORKED FOR A TIMEAS A LOCKSMITH AND THEN WENT TO SEA UNTIL OCTOBER i933 WHEN HERETURNED TO HAMBURG-HARBURG. IN HAMBURG HE UNDERWENT CRIMINALPOLICE TRAINING AND JOINED THE STAPO, HAMBURG. IN 1339 HE WASASSIGNED TO POLAND AND ENGAGED IN ANTI-RESISTANCE ACTIVITIES. IN1942-43 HE TOOK THE KR1MINAL KOMMISSAR COURSE IN BERLINCHARLOTTENBURG. PRIOR TO COMPLETING THE COURSE, HOWEVER, SUBJECTHAD TO LEAVE DUE TO A DISCIPLINARY INCIDENT IN POLAND AND HERETURNED TO POLAND. IN CONNECTION WITH ONE OF HIS OPERATIONS,SUBJECT FLEW TO ISTANBUL IN 1944 AGAINST ORDERS AND WAS 'LISTEDAS MISSING. HE WAS ARRESTED EITHER AT THE SYRIAN BORDER OR INEGYPT AND WAS SENT TO A POW CAMP IN EGYPT WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL1948.

3. SINCE 1949 SUBJECT HAS BEEN AN EAST-WEST TRADER LOCATEDIN HAMBURG AND WITH SECOND RESIDENCE IN BERLIN NIKOLAUSSE,::. HEHAS MADE NUMEROUS TRIPS TO EAST BLOC COUNTRIES AND TRAVELS ALMOSTDAILY TO EAST BERLIN. SUBJECT HAS BEEN A SUB-SOURtL OF

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LOTHAR CUHARZ IINCE AT LEAST JUNE 1952 AND PROBABLYSINCE 1949 OR 5u AND THE TWO HAVE BEEN CLOSE FRIENDS SINCE THETIME THAT THEY WERE BOTH IN THE HITLER JUGEND.

4 •IN 1554 THE SSD REPORTEDLY QUERIED DIA HOLZ CONCERNINGSUBJECT AND SINCE 1958 THERE HAVE BEEN INCREASING ,INDICATIONS THATSUBJECT WORKS FOR THE R1S. ALTHOUGH CZIHARZ' UPHILL CASE OFFICER,UJDRYROT, HAS TOLD CZIHARZ TO KEEP AWAY FROM SUBJECT, UPHILL HASNOT BEEN ABLE TO CONFIRM THAT THESE INSTRUCTIONS HAVE BEENFOLLOWED.

5. MUNICH FILES CONTAIN NO TRACES ON SUBJECT.

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