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
Secret REL Ger I started hating the Americans and... my superiors. I also began comparing the situation in West Berlin with the democratic sector.... Finally I arrived at the conviction that all actions of this espionage organization were serving the preparation of a new war of conquest against the East....Furthermore, I . convinced myself...that a number of coworkers of the espionage organization are prepared to work for other Secret services tomorrow as they are working for the Americans now....This was certified by a'talk between the chief of the espionage agency X/9592, Folater alias Faulberg, with the chief of the section X/III, Heiner . Ringe...in Which he (th e former—ed.) said: "It doesn't mean a bit to no to throw the whole works at your feet and to put myself tomorrow, with the entire agency, at the disposal of another secret service which treats and pays us better.. With you, I'll always be the sergeant, my work doesn't count because I was not a staff officer."....His personal ambitions went so far as to omit to report mishaps (arrests of agents) to his superior offioe....To save my honor I decided to request admission to the GDR.. .to start a new life, as I.love s peace as all true Germans do....I myself want to make up by honest and useful work for the wrong that I have done by my activities in the criminal espionage organization of Gehlen which is financed with American funds and is in American employment. (4) The paper further gives an account of questions asked by re- porters of different foreign and'domestic newspapers and news agencies and answers by Geyer, Norden, and the representative of the state security secretariat, Col. BorrMann. The discussion . centered around the "success" of the State security agencies in smashing espionage and' sabotage groups in the GDR, and on the place of the Americans as the "men in the background."(A) Waeslichp Rundschau published the concluding statements of the conference chairman, Prof. Norden. In his statement, Norden referred to Churchill's speech in the House of Commons in Which he said that "the Soviet Union is not thinking of expanding her power but only of improving her population's living standard." The same aim applies 701 REL Ger Secret
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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.