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plants in regard to observing the secrecy regulations, and the
defense against espionage and sabotage in the plants; second, the transmittal
of economic and bank [sic] reports about the economic and political situation
abroad, so far as Farben had access to such reports through the neutral foreign
countries; third, reports and newspaper articles about the economic
developments abroad, by way of IG. Farben liaison men; fourth, the industrial
reports about foreign plants; fifth, extracts from correspondence, from letters
of foreign associates and business friends; sixth, business friends and
visitors from abroad, and Farben employees who had returned from trips abroad,
who were to get in touch with the people from the Abwehr; seventh, it was
demanded that confidential agents of OKW/Abwehr be employed in Farben branches
abroad. These were the fields in which OKW/Abwehr demanded cooperation of
Farben.
Q. How did this develop practically, and was OKW satisfied with
the development or not?
A. No, they were not satisfied by any means.
During three conferences that took place throughout the entire war between the
chief of OKW/Abwehr, Colonel Piekenbrock and the local Abwehr officer, Major
Bloch, the Abwehr delegates of the plants, and Department [Buero] A, this
cooperation was discussed without any solution being found satisfactory to OKW.
It had been intended originally that all documents and personnel affairs should
be treated centrally through Department A, but the local counterintelligence
officers (and they are the counterintelligence officers of the OKW) objected to
that; they wanted in particular to take care of contacts with foreign visitors
themselves, in connection with the counterintelligence delegates of the plants
or the sales combines. Because of the more or less decentralized form of the
plants, the activity of the Department A was only one of giving general
directives; but also, the method through the local counterintelligence agents
was never adopted, as far as I know. I don't know a single case in Leuna, when
this was done. I do not know how the commercial field worked. So far as I was
able to find out, the employment abroad of confidential agents of OKW/Abwehr
was not adopted, or only in very rare cases, because of the danger to our
interests abroad. How unsatisfactory the cooperation between OKW and Farben
was, can be seen from Major Focke's statement; this is a prosecution document
which was not offered, NI-10422 in document book 49, which is now Document
Schneider 256, Schneider Defense Exhibit 25* in book 8 on pages 76 to 79 of the
German. This can also be seen from the fact that this Focke, who was the
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