William Tyree - The Fellowship

And suddenly Lang was screaming for the guard. Wolf moved in to silence his friend, and the two boys were soon wrestling on the floor. “Was it you, in Paris?” Wolf asked as the door flew open behind them. Wolf threw a punch, splitting Lang’s lip. “Did you tell them we were coming? Did you help them murder Hoffman?”

The guards separated them. One of the guards held Wolf on the ground, and he looked on as Lang got up of his own free will and stood in the doorway. “ Blessed be the Lord, my rock ,” Lang said, “ Who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle. My loving kindness and my fortress. My stronghold and my deliverer. My shield and He in whom I take refuge .”

“Do not hide behind scripture!” Wolf screamed. And then he began to feel the heat on his skin. His cheeks and palms were suddenly wet. But unlike Venice, he did not feel at peace. He felt as if all of Europe’s rage was contained within him, bursting to get out.

And when his palms began to bleed once more, and the crimson tears fell from his eyes, he expected Lang and the guards drop to their knees and pray as the hooded ones had in San Giacometto. But they did not. Horrified, they groped for the door handle, found it, and escaped outside, locking it behind them.

PART III

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CLASSIFIED MEMORANDUM

TO:Deputy Director, FBI (100-428091)

FROM:SAC JC Wilson

SUBJECT:INTERNAL SECURITY

There are enclosed herewith to the Bureau three copies, and to the New York Division one copy, of a report received from CG 5724-S* on February 9, 1943. This report deals with the findings of a three-day debriefing of SS Unterscharfuhrer Sebastian Wolf, who surrendered himself to American authorities at the Vatican in January 1943 after capture by an unidentified group (possibly Vatican Intelligence or an affiliated insurgent organization).

Debriefing began on Vatican premises on January 3, 1943. Post-debriefing, Subject was originally scheduled for transfer to POW farm labor camp in Murdoch, Nebraska. Request for transfer to Washington D.C. was granted on grounds that subject possessed unusually candid details about high-ranking Nazi government leaders and operations. Debrief continued in Washington D.C. on February 18 after Mr. Wolf was successfully evacuated to Spain en route to the United States. The following report includes relevant military details under consideration by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Army Air Corps.

3 — Bureau

1 — New York

1 — Chicago

SYNOPSIS OF MILITARY INFORMATION HEREIN

Summary follows. Details copied to Army Air Corps for possible use in Strategic Operations.

Sebastian Wolf drafted at age 15 from the Reich School, a top Nazi political training academy in Feldafing, Germany. Subject detailed names and locations of instructors and locations of 12 additional “Hitler Schools.”

Subject named 26 SS officers and 142 Ahnenerbe members, including highly detailed information regarding duties, ranks, and physical descriptions.

Subject reports food rationing in Germany to a greater degree than previously believed. Confirms reports of poor harvest previous year.

Subject reports Hitler Youth seen near anti-aircraft batteries in central Munich and various points in Brenner Pass (Alps) to protect key rail lines.

Subject denies knowledge of camps imprisoning ethnic minorities but claims to have known Catholic priest imprisoned at Dachau Camp near Munich and personally witnessed Jehovah’s Witness labor camp inmates working near Wewelsburg.

Claims aircraft engine factory operational within old BMW plant (Munich) and detailed locations of six additional munitions plants near Frankfurt.

Confirmed existence of “breeding” programs to encourage population growth among ethnically desirable couples. Claims mother worked at one such camp (possible contact).

VALUE ANALYSIS

Opinion of intelligence value: HIGH/SUSPECT

Sebastian Wolf conveys an unusually high degree of potentially valuable internal SS/Ahnenerbe operational information. Subject appears both highly intelligent and highly charismatic, although given to occasional erratic behavior, perhaps as a symptom of battle fatigue. However, value of information is unusually detailed in relation to subject’s seniority, calling into question validity of claims. Subject explained this by citing high casualty rate on multiple war fronts, apparently depleting draft pool, along with elite status of political institution attended.

In addition, subject’s outlandish claims about occult rituals within the Nazi party are also suspect.

Subject repeatedly asked if meeting with Nobel Prize winner Karl Landsteiner could be arranged upon arrival in U.S. Wanted to discuss unnamed subjects relating to “blood sciences” and “D-N-A.”

Subject left the Vatican under duress. Demanded access to unnamed “Holy Relic” before acquiescing to evacuation demands on January 8, 1943.

RECOMMENDATION

Wolf is only existing POW claiming to have personally worked with Heinrich Himmler since invasion of Poland in 1938. If sane, ongoing insight highly valuable for duration of war.

Recommend admit to federal facility in D.C. area for psychiatric evaluation. Further decision pending outcome of diagnosis.

62-43899-7789

MEMORANDUM TO

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FBI

SUBJECT: Sebastian Wolf Escape

On March 17, 1943 POW Sebastian Wolf (see CG 5724-S*) escaped from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, D.C. where he had been under psychiatric evaluation after intelligence debriefing.

Agents surveilling suspected Nazi sympathizers and other subversive organizations in surrounding area were put on notice. There were no contact reports.

On March 23, Mr. Wolf was apprehended at the Rockefeller Institute laboratory in New York. Police report Mr. Wolf appeared at the Institute demanding to see Karl Landsteiner, a blood science specialist who won a Nobel Prize in 1930. Mr. Landsteiner is Professor Emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute and spoke with Mr. Wolf briefly before excusing himself to call police.

Landsteiner claims not to know Wolf. His statement that he left Europe prior to Wolf’s birth checks out.

Landsteiner claimed Wolf alarmed him when he said that he had recently been in Wewelsburg, Germany with Dr. Gustav Hahn, who was one of Landsteiner’s professional rivals in Germany. Hahn is a known anti-Semite whom Wolf had previously linked to a “Blood Science Research Group” that reports personally to Heinrich Himmler and other high-ranking Nazi figures.

Landsteiner said he then excused himself to phone the police. His assistant, John Hafner, said the following: “He told me that Dr. Hahn and others had completed research demonstrating that ethnic identity could be identified by blood analysis and, in the near future, would be identifiable through DNA analysis. He said the purpose of his visit was to get Landsteiner’s professional opinion on whether this science could be applied to other kinds of research. I told him that we were not interested in Nazi research, especially as it related to racial matters.”

Wolf was returned to federal custody pending further investigation and psychiatric analysis.

It is requested that you advise me at your earliest convenience as to whether further investigation of this individual’s knowledge of contemporary German medical theory, or Professor Landsteiner’s, as it corresponds to the war effort, should be investigated by the Bureau.