Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is part of the collection CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1949-56, Volume 2, in the section on ZIPPER operations and counterintelligence. It contains early 1950s memoranda on Russian, Ukrainian and other emigre groups, a plan for a stay-behind network and for evacuating ODEUM staff if war broke out, a JUPITER status report dated 16 April 1951, and evaluations of Zipper reports. It does not discuss UFOs.
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1e6.1.4114itte.mut, dov.. 1:7; ifs-3. HUNDREDS SEIZED AS EAST ZONE SPIES Former Nazi General Linked to Ring--.U. S. Is Accused of Financing Agents . , By WALTER. SULLIVAN snows I. Tee New Tag Tom. HICHLIN,Nov..16—East German press reports indicate that several hundred persona may have been arrested in recent weeks on charges of spying, sabotage or anti-Com- munist agitation. - - The current issue of the demo- cratic German Report we that more than 100 members of one spy ring were seized. This publication is edited by by John Peet, former chief correspondent of Reuters News Agency, who defected to the Communists several years ago. He made it clear his Information was from East German Government KAMM. The group was alleged to have been headed by Gustav von Gehl= a former Nazi general now in West Germany an United States-a- armed. Many former, fin officera were said to be members of the ' • further announcemini tonight said more members ortlits group had been arrested in the tart tour days. One Who was reported to have lived In the American sector of .Berlia and to have headed a section of the agency,, was said to have been caught laying a tele- phone Wire from the United States sector to the Bovlet „sector of Berlin. The wtre"iia -iiia" to be of American manufacture and marked' "Genera/ Cable Corporation 195L" The Soviet press has daily re- ported arrests of "agents provoca- teurs," many of whom were charged with working for groups other than, that of Von Gehleres. Bence it appears that the number of them wised mazy ,be , hundred: ' .'' ' • The object of the Marren,. drip, #145%frA*, THS appears to be to tut Off the West- ern world from Its contacts In East Germany. While many friends of the West are beleleved to have been caught in the dragnet It will be impossible for 'the Communists to prevent leaks of information BO long as East Germans can visit West Berlin. ' Thera are at s. dozen anti- Communist agencies in West Bar. fin chit Welcome visitors front the East and are often Swamped with them— Ever since the anti-Government riots on Jane 17 there have been reports of antl,Communist agita- tion among the factory workers, attempts to -organize slowdowns and acts of sabotage. .Title has beet . confirmed In the Cenununtat Reports in the provincial press of the last two days hive told of new arrests or prison-sentences in such widespread .cities as . Rana, Leipzig, Erfurt, Potsdam., Schwerin and Prenkfurt-on-Oder, • let Pranldurt-on-Oder" • a party' member in charge of furnishing supplies to the new steel town of Stalinstadt IPuerstenbergl re- carved a life term on a charge that. be was *the leader of a group that worked for the West. , Those ar- rested have been accused of planning to blast bridges govern- ment buildings or railway stations, to pet factories afire or assassinate Metals. REL Ger Secret697 Secret REL Ger
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 218 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.