ODESSA was the secret network of SS Officers operating to continue to steer Germany towards future epic success. When Miller (Voight) became a threat to their organization they tried to persuade him to stop and go away. When that didn't work, they elected to kill him. By this time he has disappeared, so they send their assassin after his girlfriend Sigi in the hopes of learning where he is. You will recall the assassin chased her in the Elbe tunnel. That is when she was rescued by a police detective, who is also part of Odessa, and was driven home. It was the detectives suggestion that she have protection and a police woman was sent to her house as security.
At this point of the film, Miller is assisting Mossad to infiltrate Odessa by posing as a former SS member named Kolb. After bluffing his way through the SS interview with General Glucks he is sent from Munich via rail to Bayreuth (the photograph's location) to obtain false identity documents for the next leg of his journey to escape his persecution. You will recall this is his made up excuse for contacting Odessa in the first place.
He was escorted to the Munich train station by Gluck's butler/agent. While at the train station he calls his girlfriend Sigi and lets he know he is alright. He tells her he is at the Munich train station, which she repeats outloud. The police woman staying with her overhears this and it is understood that she reports back to her superiors what she has learned. It is not clear if this police woman is Odessa or just following her instructions. In any event, this information is passed along to the Odessa man who is handling the assassin. He learns Miller is in Munich and made a phone call from the Munich train station about 1 hour prior. Being an organized Nazi, he calls his Odessa contact in Munich who is Glucks. Glucks asks his butler if Kolb (Miller) made a phone call from the Munich train station while he was with him an hour prior. The butler confirms this is true.
At this point Glucks realizes that Kolb is Miller and he is on his way to Bayreuth for phony papers from their forger. The assassin is sent to Bayreuth, meets the forger and tells him to call Kolb back as the photographer who was supposedly gone for the weekend is now available. The assassin tells the forger to leave for the night and come back tomorrow.
The assassin was an Odessa man. He was not on the same side as Miller.
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