EUGENE DOLLMAN (W/ATTACHMENT)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00868305
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2023
• Case Number: F-2022-01506
• Publication Date: February 25, 1952

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CLAMIFICATION
Eugene DOLLMANN
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EXEMPTIONS Section 3(b)
(2)(A) Privacy
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11 February 1952
1....-Subject has been in -contact with.1,1ilenE. for the past few months,
working on the hidden anus �-roject mentioned. in referenced report. As the
operation ero,7essedr_ determined that the arms in question amounted
to much lee than the Ithole armament of a German Panzer Division; however,
from all apeJearances, the quantity of the arms is still believed. o7!a. con-
siderable.r - �1 efforts are aimed at locating the cache,-which-.s prob-
ably located somewhere in Southern Tyrol on this sine of the Italo-Austrian
border, and eventually confiscating it. 7
2. In the .course of this operation Subject has been in contact wita _
who has been acting as a go-between. All correspondence fran Sub iect and the
other personalities involved in the search has been addressed tot n
has also cone in direct contact with Subject an, has taken
iT D.trips with Subject and ,it _; D. (to Southern Tyrol once, and to Inns-e.
bruck, Austria, another time) to meet individuals whom Subject had stated
would eventually lead them to the arms' cache. (NOTE: . C_
3. Subject has received various sums of money front in the course of
this eperaticn; the .total can be estielated at roughly 150,000 lire.
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4. It will be remembered that Subject. originally cro 4)d into-Switzerland
with an Italian passport made out to the name of -11;us-= D.V-:;,,N, under which �
alias he has been livinL� in aneano. This passeo ia >tovided byt.
and, when the time came fereits renewal (probably around mid-January 1952)
Subject surrendered it ter ;) .and 1^.-, 11 for reAewal. Subject there-
fore is at eresent without any documontz.
5. On 31 January 1952E )\received a teleehone call. from Subject in
Lu7ano, reeucstine an urgent meet',ne in the Chiassc main square in connection
with an important massaee. Subject adaed tha:. he. could not say too much over
the telephone. t 21was, or played, ill, anr'. referred the matter to
:( -):, the .ntter agreed to go up e.nu meet bubect -Ind took C. 3
with him. The apeointment had been fi: a -for 1)00 hours, 1
-r7MITM.ry. Upon croseirn; t:;e homer C_ .: ran into . 2? and another
sindiidual, who later turr.cd out to be a swiss FlderarTnpector. from .Berne.
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-occasionally and on one occasion had. lunch with ,( 1. in Eilan.) )
and ce .. ''' e--charged .freetines and ( )later remembered that .Y
cracked to his comnanion: inde should take this boy to Berne with -us". .
Eventually ( )mentioned that he had aL apointment in a cafe of the main
. square in.Chiasso and went on. (_ , ...).stoccl there chatting with ( 1
k V and the other man. As ,C ) reported later, it wasn't long be�
fore the man from Berne tugged- n{..,, ')Is sleeve and broke the conversa�
tion up.
�. 6. Meanwhile t ) had met Subject in a cafe on the main square of Chiasso,
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very near the frontier.. The conversation, dealing with the developments of
� the arms' OperatiOn�hed not progressed very far before (. - .S'and his-. .
partner appeared. .1;Then thee, did, t .); upon entering the cafe and see�
in- I talking to Subject, spontaneously'remakred "So it was you1" or.
words to .that effect. t_ . )! promptly asked fe. � ) and the otherman to
it in on the comeersatien (which they did) to show them that his Ohl, reason
for seeing Subject on Swiss territory was to obtain imforelation on a matter
affecting Italian jurisdiction. From the conversation the purpose of Sub�
jectle telephone ca12 becaae clearer.
7. Subject had been under very close surveillance by the 3wiss Federal
Pollee Tor the past few days (it may he inferred that it was since he was
without eth: docements). Subject's ever; move and :hone calls had been mohi--
tored, :ith 'ene.el,:dee. It therefore to be presumed that Subject had
attempted to .ingratiate erith the Swiss to e-et.tj__ .31 into a trap.
(Subject probably did not have a clear idea of .ehot. actually is.)
Th.. fact that subject not warn ( )) of the impending danger during the
few eeinutes which-they were tu epeak erivatele lends credence to this
thecry. ( )1, who is reported to be rather gullible, as ppposed to his
companion who is stated by (_ to be leuch keener, blew (� partially
by ceiling him "C',ptein" in reont of Subject, who was thus abTh to confirm
zny euspicions he eijet have he.d tne paet ebeut his bein connected with
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3. �'.',hen it bec=,m,, clear that the trap wae not �).ein., t, snare its quarry
(st, -1 being enown to t ) as an r.V . 1. the cards were laide_
on the'tnble and '). asked .-1, Yfor the helj 71
in getting .51..!ject eat of 3witzeelend. Subject, ( .aid, had too many
debts (a veey erave eisaceeeanor in Swiss eyee); h'a added that it ,::ould be ap�
preciated if the Italiane could riU Switzerland of Subject. ( , ). dodged
the issue or the Amc, pending consultation with :j.e
?.. The COU75 of action was then discussed between r. ____..3. office and
r (- ;I 0 iia,... the pasceort .ior renewd.r --( I opposed heving Sub�
ject enter Italy, nartLcularle becauee of the proble::. of ,:ho would .pay. for
'Subject's k . eep.r . 22 feels that 3u4ect is completcl, finished as far
a3 intel'.igence eossibilities are concerned, and has stated that he will not
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spend any more money on him. He felt tnat the Swiss should put Subject
over the Austrian or German border and let him go on from there on his
own. �
10.C* - .was summoned to C ._)during the week of 4 February (during:
which time he saw E 1. Shortly after his return to I ''j, towards the
end of the week, '"ubject was turned over to the Italians at the Italo-
Community in Via 1,1 cqva, Milan, on :Thursday, 7.February.- Subject was
Swiss border. He a.s whisked to the "Angelicum", house of the Franciscan
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turned over to I\ j',� OFIA, who appearrs to have hidden him so
that eve* )3 doe\not know his present whereabouts.
11, It.is expected that a fill-in on the details of the last paragraph
will be obtained shortly.
12. E--- 3 COMENT: L .r... has promised to .furnish data on developments.
Data on details of the arms cache, which involves Sudtyrolen Volksyiartei
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personalities, are also forthcoming.
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