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As for my sources, I assure You, this is a very honest and unassuming people who carry out their duties carefully and do not intend to offend anyone.

According to the joint intelligence Directorate, the main goal of Germany in 1941 was the defeat of the United Kingdom. 23 may this office, which included representatives of all three branches of the armed forces, reported that rumors about the forthcoming attack on Russia subsided.

For the head of such a gigantic intelligence apparatus he was, in my opinion, too kind, too soft. Times staff Canaris simply led him by the nose.

We are almost exclusively used English with explosives, as it was plastic and more effective.

And now about the "red orchestra". Its network covered the whole territory of Europe, extending from Norway through Switzerland to the Mediterranean sea, and from the Atlantic ocean to the Baltic. The first "musicians" were members of the Soviet Embassy in Paris, which after the entry into France of German troops moved to different countries. In the spy organization was not only senior representatives of the Wehrmacht, almost every Imperial Ministry worked her contacts. Final defeat of the spy organization "Red orchestra" are we up to the end of the war and failed to apply.

Vast expanses of Russia allows our agents for months to drive across the country without revealing itself. But in the end most of them ended up in the hands of the NKVD.

Great importance to command the troops had the eavesdropping of radio communications of the enemy between armies, divisions and regiments. The great success we achieved when we were able to connect to the radio channels of the Central apparatus of Russian intelligence in Moscow. Here we were widely conceived of the radio game in order to deceive the enemy. In the end, Moscow had to change the code and the personnel of agents.

We dropped in the rear of the Russian troops, whole units and parts, which, besides the constant creation of chaos on enemy communications, were, first of all, the withdrawal of the defeated German units. It was especially difficult to operate in areas protected by the battalions of the NKVD.

One of our agents managed, posing as escaped from German captivity, to settle in the headquarters of Marshal Rokossovsky and give us there information.

A great support to us was rendered by the Vlasov army, set as their goal the liberation of Russia from the Soviet regime.

The second direction developed the "operation Zeppelin". Here we broke the usual rules for the use of agents - the focus was on mass. In prisoner of war camps were selected by thousands of Russian, which after the training pelted by parachute deep into Russian territory. Their main task, along with the transfer of current information, it was a political expansion of the population and of diversion.

While our intelligence activities in the United States left much to be desired, the Americans had achieved in this field in Europe.

The production of fighters and bombers in 1943 in Germany was 25% lower than our estimate, was required to make by the Americans.

Many worries constantly gave us enough established intelligence work in the United States of America. After the United States entered the war, we began to feel this so strongly that I think we can call this period one of the darkest chapters in the history of German intelligence. After the FBI uncovered our most important communication channels, we are almost never left intact contacts.