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we would awake many suspicions as to initiate an investigation. I was truly Egyptian and I
spoke as good English as Arab, idiom that my Comrades also dominated, although not the
English, that they spoke with a strong German accent. However and once reached the case,
would be enough for them to talk correctly in Arab, because in Egypt no one is obeyed to know
English.

The Taranteno crossed the Indian Ocean, with just one call in Ceylon, and then it
entered in the Bay of Bengal towards Kolkata and Dhaka. Finally it ascended through the River
Dalasseri, which is an arm of the Brahmaputra, and it anchored before its left shore, in the port
Dacca, important city of what was the Presidency of the Own Bengal, then Province of Bengal,
later the Islamic State of the East Pakistan, and today the Bangladesh. The shipload of African
thread, with its precious contraband, could be disembarked without inconvenients and stored
in a deposit that we rented with that effect.

We were not planning to stay too much in Dacca: just the necessary to sell or change the
threads for the rich silks and Bengali muslins, supply us with victuals, and contract doolies. Our
next goal was the city of Punakha, capital of Winter of the Country of Bhutan. There was
waiting for us the Standartenführer Karl con Grossen and his assistant, the
Obersturmführer Heinz Schmidt, both from the III Division of the R.S.H.A., called «Foreign
Service of Information» or «S.D. exterior». Karl von Grossen was the chief of the «Operation
Primary Key» and, even if he had immediate superiors to Schellemberg and Heydrich, for this
mission he was put under the direct command of the Reichführer Himmler. They had already
advanced us many months ago and he maintained, in some strange mode, under permanent
observation the caravan of Ernst Schaeffer. He had fame of intelligent and rude man. He had
been also a policeman, as my assistants Kloster and Hans, revisting many years in the Gestapo
of Baviera. But the he requested the pass to the S.D. exterior to enforce his doctorate in
History. He was expert in History and Geography of Asia, apart of specialist in tactics of rapid

deployment knowledges that explain why the Reichführer Himmler elected him to command
the Operatio First Key.

Three days later we went out from Dacca towards the North, taking a path that
surrounded the left shore of the Brahamaputra until Bonarpara and then it deviates in
direction to Rangpur, the residence of the Rajah of Assam. We were in Auttum of 1938 and the
suffocating weather of those marshy regions, furrowed by countless rivers and only apt for the
rice cultivation, produced us the desire to ascend to high and cold zones of Bhutan. The two
Haupsturmführer, Hans Lechfeld and Kloster Hagen, were marching ahead, preceded by
fifteen doolies pure Aryans, with all the shipload; I closed the column. We just exhibited three
fusils Mauser of the First World War, weapons according to our profession of merchants, while

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