CABLE TO SPECIAL OPERATIONS RE DOLLMANN ESCAPED FROM ALLIED PW CAMP

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• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2022-01506
• Publication Date: November 20, 1946

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1. FOLLOWING ARE HIGHLIGHTS MOST UNFORTUNATE :'4C 'NT ARISIfal '
FROM ARRESTRJOLC_aNNY ITALIAN POLICE.
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2. END OF AUGUST INFONAED BY BARO*AR-ILLI THAT DOLLMANN AND
WENNER, HAVING ESCAPED FRal ALLIED PW OAMP,_GIVEN FALSE !DEN,
TTY CARDS GY SIM. BOTH BEING HELD BY SW, AND CARDINAL
SHUSTER IN INSANE ASYLW MILAN. PARILLI RELATED BOTH BEING
USED IN DETEWIED RIGHT WING AND VATICAN %1ANEUVER TO DISCREDIT
ALLIED SURRENDER IN ITALY AND BUiLD UP NATIONALISTIC-ANTI-ALLIED
(:LELING ON ALL-OUT PROPAGANDA THEME THAT CAP.DINAL SHUSTER SAVED
ITALY FROt."! GER1AN SCORTH-EARTH INTENTIONS BY PERSONALLY NEGO-
TIATING SURRENU1R. PROJECT WAS' LAUNCHED IN MILAN PRESS
SUPPORTED BY PI:ONEY AFFIDAVITS OBTAINED BY SHUSTER'S SECRETARY
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DON BICCHERM AND GHISETTI OF SUM, ViHICH DOLLMANN AND WENNER
FORCED TO SIGN; ALSO INCLUDED BLACK.;AIL DOCUJENTATION AGAINST
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PARAPHR.,SE NOT -REWIRED. ,HANDLE AS ilitinTECP ET CONTROL
CORRESPONDENCE PER SI (1) 60 A AR-380-5.
cconcT CONTROL
P4ARII_L1 ANC OTHERS WHO WORKED WITH ,AMERICANS. _PARILL! CONCLUDED
THAT BOTH WERE BEING BLACKMAILED AND HAD CONTEMPLATED DEFECTING
TO RUSSIANS BUT WERE SCHEDULED TO BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER
J)IACE, ALLEGEDLY A JESUIT CONVENT
3. REFLECTION ON ABOVE BROUGHT INTO MIND FORMER STATEMENT MADE -
FORMER HEAD OF C, TO ME FOLLOWING ESCAPE iN
BECiwiING 194.61 WHEN HE ASKED IF WE WERE INTERESTED IN RUNNING
DOLLmANN WHOM HE COULD CONTACT. IN VIEW C S.CLOSE CONTACT
WM-HE TIE DECLINED. OTHER TRACE ON ABOVE INDICATED BOTH
BICCHERAI �AND.G1U1SETTI CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH L
THEREFOR: REGARDED CASE AS ONE FRAUGHT WITH I.S, INTEREST AND
PARTICULARLY DANCER9US IF COM1UNt3TS TOOK THEM OVER,. FURTHER
MOTIVATED 1Y DEFINITE PARILLI STATEMENT THAT ON BEHALF OF
SUNr,5SE BOTH HE AND HUSSMANN MADE DEFiNfTE COMMiTTMENTS TO
REHABILITATE THEM. THIS SUBSTANTIATED BY PARILLt SPENDING
181,000 LIRE OF (MN MONEY TO MAKE U FOR HARM DONE.
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4. :N VIc:W OF TIME ELEUENT 30TH WERE TAKEN IN HAND CY US AND
BROUGHT TO ROME, CONCLUSION GF OPERATION IN ROME tfirtS DELAYED
OUV e ( OTHER PRIORITY MPTTERS. IN ..1EANTImE PLAN t'/AS To KEEP
THEM QUIET (SINCE ESCAPC OCCURRED 10 MONTHS ACC) LITH PROPOSAL
U.S. GOVERNMENT PUSLISi: WH:TE BO-OK WITH FULL PPRTICULARS OPERA�
T;ON/SUNRISE TO 0EET SCHUSTER'S PUBLICATION. THiS PARTICULARLY
NECESSARY FOR HISTORICAL DEvELOPMENTS IN GEF)4AN ARMISTICE.
RECENTLY, IIEFO5E LOCAL ADMINISTrATIVE ELECTIONS RETURNED TO
OPFiCE LEARNING ITALIAN POLICE ARW.ATZD D (DOLLMAN REFERRED TO
HEREAFTER AS 0).. D. ISSUED PHONEY DOCUMENT BY US UNDER ITALIAN
NAME CORRESPOND;NG TO NAME IDEK-TY CARD !SSUED HI!!. SY OUR
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7. FLA3 IN�APRANGEMENT3 CAUSEC BY NEW ROME QUESTOR POLITO-WHO
HAD IGNORED ALLIED DOCUMENT AND HAD PREVIOUSLY INFORMED PRESS.
POLITO DELIBERATELY LIED BEFORE FERRARI STATING THAT PRESS HAD
NOT BEEN INFORMED AND THAT BODY VAS ONLY CASSANfl THEREFORE
CHOICE OF REGAINING BODY PMEDIATELY TAKEN SINCE IN ESCAPED Pgt
CASES ITALIANS HAVE NO JURISDICTION. AT NO TIME DID D CONFESS
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DECIDED TO STAND PAT THAT CASSANI WAS t�S. SUSPECT FOLLOWING.
JURIDICAL PRACTICE ANY ENEMY AGENT IS WiTHIN ALLIED JURISDIC-
TION,
9. IN MIDDLE 07 THIS, POLITO, WHO DENIED CASSAN.! WAS_D"ON OWN
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PRESS OF TRUE IDENTITY ADDING THAT ALLIES HAD TAKEN BODY, IN
VIEW IMPENDING FOSSE ARDENTINA TRIAL WHICH VITAL ISSUE IN
CASE, TELEPHONED C- 7:1THAT ORIGINAL REQUEST TO C 3 THAT V'E
SHIP 0 OUT OF COUNTRY DE PREDICATED ON RESULT TRIAL WHICH
SHOULD (AND SO FAR HAS). ESTABLISH HIS INNOCENCE. C.
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BASIS THAT 0 AND WENNER WERE OPERATION SUNRISE OBLIGATIONS
WHICH MUST BE LIQUIDATED WHILE WE STILL MAINTAINED THE POWER
TO DO 50) AND THAT.WE WERE TO STAND PAT.
10. CASE tIENT TO 11.. wHO STATED HE PERSON;.
ALLY PARTICIPATED IN SURRENDER NEGOTIATIONS AND THAT 0 HAD.
NOTHING TO DO wiTH NEGOTIATIONS, RESULT OF r. aATTITUDE
WAS THAT AFHQ MADE PRESS RELEASE THAT 0 WAS IN ALLIED HANDS
AND THAT HE HAD NOTHING TO DO wITH SUNRI3E. THIS,IAS MADE
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IN THE SECRET ),S. PHASE OF NEGOTIATIONS. THE LATTER PART OF
THIS c coNV:NCED L. '/AS FALSE. iT WAS MADE PRECISELY
OEcAuSE OF THESE pRomISEs MADE BY DARILLI AND HuSSmANN DURING
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ORRESPONOEFICE PER PARAS 51 (1) 60A AR-330-5.
THc7 NEGOTIATIONS THAT 30TH CONTACTED 0 AND q DURING THEIR
INCARCERATION BY St? IN MILAN.
12. C11 ORDERS FROM C.- D, 0 NO/ LODGED IN AN MP JA!L. IN
TODAY'S PAER3.THERE IS AN ACCOUNT. OF THE FIRST .DAY OF.THE
FOSSE ARDENTINA CAVE TRIAL IN WHICH D'S UORTAL ENEMY, KAPPLER,
ANSEREO DIRECT QUESTION ON D'S i-7ARTICIPATION STATING DIRECTLY
D HAD NOTNING TO ,00 WITH THE FOSSE ARDENTINk
13. C., F;10M THE nsT DAY OF OUR REGAINING BODY
FROM POLICE STATED HE nULD TAKE CASE iN HAND AND COVER .FOR US
AT CASCRTA. THIS /JAS UNFORTUNATE BUT LOGICAL STEP. HOWEVER
CASE ONCE IN HIR HANDS SERVED- AS ESTOPPEL::NEREBY I WAS NOT
ONLY STOPPED FIGHTING OWN BATTLE. BUT DID NOT LEARN OF EVENTS
UNTIL LATE LAST NIGHT.
14. SINCE r M UNWITTINGLY VICTIM OF HIS -09N GOLD INTEN-
TIONS ON OUR BEHALF, AND BECAUSE FUTURE DISPOSIT/ON 0 AND
NO3 UNDER DISCUSSION, URGENTLY REQUEST YOUR EXAMINATION OF
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OPERATION SUNRISE DURING PRELIMINARY NEGOT/ATIONSt TO SEE
WHCTHER OUR. MISSION IS CORRECT.
15. HAVE BEEN INFORMED PRIVATELY BY 71 THAT
IF WAR DEPARTMENT WOULD SEND URGENTLY CABLE TO :1STAT-
?NG IN EFFECT THAT 0 AND W PARTICIPATED' IN NEGOT/ATIONS DURING
THEJiI PHASE AND WERE MADE PROMISES OF REHABILITATION SY
AMERICAN 0.S.S0 AGENTS HW]afAN AND PARILLF, HE WILL CONSIDER
WHOLE MATTER MOST FAVORABLE. THIS ACT WOULD REESTABLISH OUR
POSITION AND RESOLVE PRESENT/CONFLICT. FEEL STRONGLY THAT NO
OTHER INTERPRETATION CAN OE PLACED ON THE 0 INTERROGATION WHICH
WAS 'SCIENTIFICALLY CONDUCTED BY C AND WHICH REFUTES THE
PRIMARY /SSUE MADE BY AIRE': WHEN .HE CONVINCED ./7:- 3 D HAD NOTHING
TO 00 WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS., SUCH STATEMENTS CONFIRMED BY
"IOULD ?�!*7 EMBARRASS t_ OR C M IF IT MERELY
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ITALIAN. BRITISH, HOWEVER, NOU KNOW WE NOW HOLD WENNER-
20. FOLLOWING �L TALK t71THCT, HAVE JUST LEARNED HE
WILL BACK US IF OFFICIAL STATEUENT FORTHCOUINU, PARTICULARLY SO
BECAUSE HE IS TAKING OVER FROM
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