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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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  • p. 46 …lereioe end, ile..hops,,,s friendly end cooperating cmes , Pot our present luer,ore.tica 1itsbnlasts…
  • p. 56 …All preparations and plans for such an • eventuality are made in closest cooperation with the DS…
  • p. 64 …between ZIPPER and the BrIr is deplorable; cooperation is al- most non-existent: ZIPPER provides the…
  • p. 73 …countries overseas; others are recruited for IS- cooperation by Allied IS authorities. Only worthless individuals or…
  • p. 112 …Gehlen who closely cooperates With the Adenauer Government in West Germany and who keeps several branches…
  • p. 116 …close cooperation with the State agencies of security. The papers cited other cases in the past…
  • p. 128 Secret REL Ger intelligence -- 4 • Cooperation is close, without question. The organization has been turning up…
  • p. 135 …Propaganda effect on the people, in order to get them to cooperate lin the untsovering of…
  • p. 170 …Once a continuing contact is established, cooperative work on details will develop. The stress on secrecy…
  • p. 187 …is far outweighed • by the value of cooperation with KUBARK in this field. Thus, the collection…
  • p. 188 …To what extent this will event—: - ually effect our cooperative effort with the ZIPPER intelligence apparatus…
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I was serving the best interests of Germany
by this....The chief of this espionage group
is the former fascist Gen. Gehlen....His
coworkers are, for instance, the chief of
the sub-Agency X, Westphal alias Donner,
farmer Luftwaffe lt. colonel, and the chief
of the espionage agency X/8970, Gaertner,
former Luftwaffe major.. ,.This organization
turned out to be an espionage organization
commanded by the Americans and financed from
Anerican funds....These agencies camouflage
themselves as harmless business enterprises
with covernames such as; The Main Adminis7
tration -- Firm Herzog; the General Agency
-- Firm Base; the sub-Agency -- Firm
Schlosser; the Branch X/9592 -- Firm gord-
land i Raulusstra8se . 19, Berlin Schoeneberg.
In reciuiting agents in the GDR, spddial
value is attributed to perSond aucil ad former‘
officers, big landowners, former members of
the Gestapo and of the Brandenburg Division,
former coworkers of the SD, the SS, the
Waffen-SS and coworkers of the former
fascist OKW general staff.
The agents are given the following
orders: TO Carry out economic, military, and
political espionage, espionage of research
work, patents; to procure documents and
passes to the different plants and insti-
tutions, identity documents and other identity
papers of the GDR and other People's .
Democracies....In particular agents are
told to spy on the defense of the transport
system, especially bridges,
...under the cover-name 'Depth and Research'
there is a plan for infiltrating agents into
the countries of the People's Democracies
and the USSR, with the aim of disturbing the
existing friendly relations between them
and Germany and provoking another war...
The technical equipment is of American
origin...and is made available by the Agencies
of the American secret service....What we did
was for the American secret service which
financed this,..with American dollars. I
found that this...was crimirel...and against
the German people and my Fatherland.
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