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.
“Headquarters”17 pages
REL Ger REL Ger Secret - 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. 700
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