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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. 57 …They have never accepted the fact that construction of Wignal plans and the training of ZIPPER…
  • p. 73 …in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany). Never- theless it will be necessary in the future…
  • p. 129 …he was nothing but a civil servant, never an active party map and simply did vSit…
  • p. 133 …on the part of the affected organization never.1 theless, 412 view of the exacting price…
  • p. 146 …as a flap, the ERHARDT flap would never have arisen, since ERHARlYf would then have been…
  • p. 180 …UTILITY has never shown any intereat in resolving this problem. lie does not believe that the…
  • p. 181 …Ma have never been able to fathom what subtle purposes UTILITY may have in mind by…
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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
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