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ek nt Des Sati at RRR ih pe geen GMI, Napelingglan Yee Oi ¢ ‘ol ‘atl NK 100-32986 S cE — through whom arrangements were made for the use of the Cable , eddress wes bINSTLIN's chief secretary at the time. The identity | and background of the secretary in question was not known to the -* informant. Informant advised that this individuel was bINSToIN's - senior and private secretary at least during the period 1929 to —Drolaios 1931. The secretary was very closely associated with an inter- netional apparatefunctionary of Soviet Russia. fe Py \- The informant described the operation of the intelligence activities as follows1¥) au , (en An intelligence message wes first transcribed into a Tes; prearranged Comintern or Soviet code. This messaye was then efor transcribed into a second code prior to the time it was transcribed sedge in an epproved internal cable code similar to that used by cINSTbIN. The informant was of the opinion that sINSTEIN used the most popular of codes developed in Germany, thet of the Rudolph Mosse Publishing vfs end Newspaper Firm. The double coded message was then dispatched to the LINSTHIN ceble address. according to the informant, at BINSTeIiv's office it was the duty of the senior secretary who was at that time in the employ of the Soviet Apparsete,to decode all messages and give ell messages to wINSicIN for reading. Hence, ‘ this individual was in a position to intercept all messages which did not pertain tp LINOTLIN and transmit them to the appropriate Soviet courier —_ This courier or contact man reponsible for: liaison with BINILIN's Berlin Office, came directly to that office to pick up incoming cables for the apparate. pr dat aay The thformant advised that ‘“INUTLIN's telegram address wes for some time under the supervision and protection of one EGR» wb GuOS KOPF, who at thet time was in charge of the falsifica- tion of passports for the Soviet apparate,and subsequently became Chief of the Berlin Criminal Police in the Soviet Sector in Berlin. Informent advised that in the past, GhOvKOKF hed issued a fake passport to an alleged Swiss citizen, Pati slsGG, who was operating as an agent of the Comintern in the far bast and co-worker of the Soviet Apparatein China. at one time, nUuGG had a large amount of intelligence information arf due to security reasons was forced to use w«JNSTLIN's address and snother cover address to forward this information, AU=GG was later arrested by the Chinese police. A?