(EST PUB DATE) REPORT RE EUGENE DOLLMANN'S HELP IN POSSIBILITY OF RECRUPERATING GERMAN ARMS IN BRENNER REGION.

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00868282
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• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2022-01506
• Publication Date: July 21, 1950

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-ckeen no major ananqes or developments since reference. Most of the
repOrted by ( )-are straikhtforward and readily understood.�
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8. Arranged a meeting with Colonel Euf:en DOLLMANNE ,] etc.)
and_( to Jcliscuss the poSsibility of recruperatin7, arMs
in the Brenner region. DOT:L:aNW presented as Doctor though
C ****) knows perfectly well who he is, but the pretence was kept up.
9. DOLLMANN is sure that by contactin Nazi circles in Innsbruck,
particularly the group around the famous HOFER, ex-Gauleiter of
Bolzano, he can pick up old Nazi connections who would be disposed
to sell these arms. As DOLLMA7.N is about the only person left of
the her Nazi circles he is the only one who could probably con-
tact these people and with them. aq.:reed to send DOLLMANN
on this trip, and some discussion as to the advisability of C >
going with him, but DOLLMANN believes that Innsbruck is too small,
and DOLLMANN toolvell known to be seen in a Swiss car, etc. DOLL-
MANN will leave alone, and telerzraph for t_ when he has made the-
contacts. I will keep out of the picture entirely.
(NOTE: DOLLMANN departed for Innsbruck on the morning, of
12 July.)' �
10. DOLLMANN is convinced that he may et on to traces of a part
of the personal belom;ings of HITLER sent into this region in 1945,
and never recovered, and 1 has aT;reed to slip this in with the
arms and get it out and away from Italian cOntrol.�
11. DOLLMANN made a first-class impression-on ( and I was
-surprised to see how well he dealt with the situation, how lo7ical1y
his mind worked, ,and how he quickly s,w all around the subject, and
its various ramifications, etc.. I suddenly saw him as he must have
been in the days of his Service in tome--a first-class man, not
So often see here as someone who lives in fear, who is never at his
ease with me because 1 know too much r,bout him, etc. Somehow, he
creates himself a. certain barrier, as he feels with me he in not on
an equal footing--for he is too conscious of the conqueror and the
conquered. With ( )�he felt quite differently, .and the result was
that I saw another.DOLLANN, or rather the DOLLYLN of another time.
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13. (_ I wished to 7iVe me the attached�CUrriculum vitae
(Attachment B) made and signed by DOLLMANr1 which I have attached at
the end of the report, which .-ives a picture of who ana what DOLL-
MANN was up till 1943 and the -Orman occupation of Italy. He
thought in.vi r,f the possibility of DOLLMANN contactinf!, my friend,
), etc.), that it milit be interesting to have
this in hana. Can copies be made of this, and I will return the
original to
111.. He then said DOLLMAKN had spoken about our plans for Innsbruck,
etc., but that he wanted to tell me that DOLLMANN was absolutely
without funds and we should have to 4ve him the necessary funds.
Ee said that he admini*stereA all *the funds from DOLLMANN's book,
giving him only enough for his livinrr each month, as DOLLMANN had
absolutely no money sense, and would spend everything he had in
one day, and he wanted to warn me about letting DOLLIiANN have too
much money, as it would only -;ro for nothinfl at all if he had too
much.
15. Actually DOLLM4Nli was several months behind with his room rent
and his pension in Lugano, and ( '): was waiting for
a check for two hundred thousand lire for DOLUiANN to pay this off,
and he felt DOLLNAtRicould not go off if this were not paid. It
seems that DOLLMANN had written a report on his connections with our
service in Rome. and Inter in Frankfort, which had been in the hands
of C , ;
' 2Ie.) who had not been able to publish
it. About bm: ..urcs beforreA( shad come to Lugano,. picked
up DOLLMANN in thz_gar and tken hil to lunch to Casserate to the
.1x.sw,r5e pa-
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During the _
LlunCheOn partvl ( ) said he had ,--siven this report on our
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services to t ") who was willins to pay two hundred thousand lire
for this. A check was promised from Milano by C 1 who was
leaving the next day for W.ontecantini. UP to date the check had
not come, but (,_ ') had confirmed the story with C )
( ) said he found the whole story very stranr;e, as he could
tot see for what reason l ) should be willing to pay this sum for
manuscript of this story. I asked if DOLL7UIN1 had asked the Ameri-
cans if he could tell his part of his story, and ( - ). said
DOLLMANN had told him in Prankfert the had given him permission to
write anything he wished. The story as 'C ) ha6 soon it
_ dealt with the various Americans and the service., in toile, referring
to t )presumablyi: .3) in Rome, and others in Frankfort.
(. ) made three points on the story:
3. :iasit only an attempt to help DOLL At who is sorely in
need ot financial help? C
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) this mornirt
' to leave the first of the week for
things started from that end.
33. WecaIled DOLLMANW who came
Monday Or Tuesday for Innsbruck,
to send a wire asking for C ))
the purchaser of this _material.
his cousin, C7
who wishes the Colonel (DOLLMANN)
Innsbruck, and .alone, to ;:..et
up and he areed to get off on
and as soon as things are started
to come, so he can be presented as
DOLLMAIvN will be in contact with
I and who is lining up
his contacts with the-big Nazis. in the re7ior, all'eady, as he has
contatLed her by letter. Ito you think that /this should be sigrallej
to any of our people at Tnnsbruck, for, ac/ordAng to DOLLN,
there is an Amrican by the name of -IWO(' our service, who z...,-,ets
to know everything: in the region, and DOLI.XLNN is afraid that they
may pick him up, if the-word gets about that DOLLW.AWN is in Austria?
(NOTE: _ ptells us that when DOLL'rANN left Frankfort
in 1948 he went into AustriaC ): and was picked up by
the French. DOLLUA:IN insisted on talking with an American
official and was finally allowed to speak with someone named
( ), whom DOLLYAi:! believed to be a CIC officer. Eventually
he was able to have DOLLMANN releas6i1 from French custody
and DOLLY.ANN'was able to return to Italy. DOLMA1 ?! had re-
marked that in his opinion, ( was extremely well informed
and was concerned that the danger existed that C might hear
of his being in Innsbruck.)
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In the cOurse of the conversation with said
of his main contacts and sourep of information about Rome
polities, etc.,,was a certain'
that
says he is the "Em-
/kinence Grise of the regime, and DOLLANN said that he had been in
his day as well, and was by far the most powerful person in Rome,
though he never appeared oersonally in anything. DOLLMANN said he
had advised .) in 1942 to cultivate this-man if he wanted
something from Rome, but C. had not taken his advice,
and instead sent costly presents to CIAO, and DOLMAN?! said he had
told Berlin that without the help of 3 they could never
succeed in Rome, and didn't succeed. Both admitted that he was a
great figure behind the scenes, and c! .1 wants to arrange a
luncheon in Lugano for DOLLMANN and me to meet him, that is for.
DOLLMANN to see him again.
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