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Re: Luftwaffe Personnel spying for Allies?
Hi, guys.
It has been my understanding that the HW 5 stuff in fact is mostly humint, and not decrypts. I have thousands of signals (remember, the humint stuff came via radio mostly, and was received and transcribed at some central unit which I do not know) that seem to corroborate this, and signals like:
"Source saw unit strength return addressed to Lfl 5 HQ stating:
14./JG 77"
etc etc etc
was just that, namely a report from some person that relayed this to the intelligence unit they worked with. There are also numerous examples of these starting with "Source saw partially torn document bla bla bla" and one can clearly see (by comparing to contemporary documents from the units in question) that this is correct. Several of the documents referred to were also not transferred by any kind of link, but were ordinary paper documents transferred by courier or ordinary service mail.
In my opinion most of these humint people were working for the Wehrmacht in different types of 'civilian' jobs, office personnel, cleaning personnel etc.
Regards,
Andreas
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