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See Monit Sth acd pi seein te TWWad21543 DH230290, Bese, Reg. IV, Cth CIC Dots, APO 407A, dated 25 daxwry fe i. 151, Subjects KILSTSIX, Alberts we tee cree address as a letter drop is not known, but when Source vas instructed to establish a lege) enable address for use in the sane “line” (temm 32+ : weed to desicnete several units used as a core or less coordinated Fr. Group within @ eccmunioations network) in 1929, SUBJE-T's enable adérese ~ was already in use, It fs not known exactly who decided te utilise SUBJSCT's eable address for eoaspirative purposes, but the “line” te whieh it belonged operated - wnter the Rest Zuropean Bureau (rEB) ef the Couintern (headed at that tine by Georcly DISITSOFF, deceased) in eonjunction with the Intermtioml Liaison Departeext (2S) (Otdel Keshdumrodnove Sviart), whieh we headed in BiRLIK at that time by dakod ABKALOV, ahias MIROV (deceased) The reason for using SUBJECT's enable adérone was that the extent of in- terrations1] eable traffie received by SUSJECT, fron $11 sorners of the glode, coupled with S(BJECT's established internatiom] reputation, | would provide & relatively innoowous sover for sonspirative saummmication, The person in BUSUECT's office through whor the arrangerents were nade for the use of the enable address waa S\D0:¢r's shief secretary at the time. Ko further details rerparding the identity, backrroud er deo soriztion of thie secretary are known to Scuree, whe had no direst @ontact with the effice, other than tat she was what gould be descr ac the senior secretary in 3I5JCT'a private office at least during the period 1622 ¢hreuch 1331, Tris secretary hed elose persom? relationships, ovably of an intinets mture, with an intermtions] Apparat Suustiomry whor. Source oan Bot identify) and, throuch these relatiouships torpether with hor own Cecmunist syzyetnies, was drawn into eccapirative werk, Source states positively that the use ef SUBJECT's eable adéress was net obtained through the Gerzan Ar-eret (whieh would in this ease have bees the Guarters Aprarat), nor was it ever used by the German A-yparete, se the assvweption is made ef a direct recruitment by RSE or GK. Tne following procedure was used in transcission ef cables through ehannels _ of (1) An intelligense messaze was enacded (not enoiphered) from the “elear® {nto @ prearranged Comintern or Soviet code, (Fxasples “Four Dattleships have moved inte ROACGi:AG barber” might be enscded ag "Your ashoans have been sold to the MSCiCEO restaurant’) (2) This weseace was then re-ensoded in the approved international eadle @ode used by BUBVECT, Although Source is not certain, it is bee Uleved that SUBU2CT used the most popular ef the codes @evelesed Gerrany, that of the Budelf MOSSE Publighing and Bewspaper firme. - Se ye