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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Secret REL Ger to his government. Therefore, so Prof. Norden states, his Government holds out no danger to West Germany but "we embarrass Adenauer by the ideals of German harmony which we serve. Adenauer, however, does not have any ideals to export, therefore he exports crime." Speaking of the arrests and trials of arsonists and criminals sent into the GAR from the West Norden said: "There is no freedom here for American-hired criminals, for murderers, and murder- apprentices. Whoever: makes himself-an armed tool of the Americans lives dangerously for a short time and is then rendered harmless. for all time." In conclusion Norden said that "German unity and the peace treaty-for this unified Germany must *forced into accomplishment in order to eliminate American military and espionage bases in Germany....If our colleagues of the West German and international press have the courage-to publish what facts they have heard here today, they will have rendered the cause of Germany and of peace a considerable service."(].) Comments on West German Press Reaction Contrary to usual practice the East German press devoted considerable front-page space to the West German press's reaction to the Gehlen case. Headlining it article "Painful, painful..,," one paper reprinted part of an article from the Hamburg paper Pie Welt and cited it as proof of the truthfulness of Geyer's statements. The paper is quoted as saying that "Geyer was dispatched to the elite West Berlin Branch after, with the Frankfurt district agency of Gehlen,". The paper isadd to have further reported that "orders by the Munich Central Office and. instructions for the use of arms and a secret code for use by the Gehlen radio transmitters in the Soviet Zone were found in the branch office," and that "the chief of the branch was a man bearing the cover-name Paulberg."(11) The Taegliche Rundschau and other East German papers elaborated on the press conference held in Bonn by the Chief of the Bonn press office, von Eckhardt (7,12,13,14), saying that according to Eckhardt, Adenauer was doubtlessly informed about. the existence of the Gehlen organization. The Bonn newsletter Nachrichten und Peormationsdienst of Nov. 8 ta said to have admitted the existence and alum of this espionage organization "with impudence and effrontery." (U) The newsletter is cited as follows: "Only ,experts could imagine of what service such apparatus could be, once well used. The Gehlen organization did extraordinary work during the war. It is to the merit of the Americans to have...intercepted and preserved this organization." Further it quoted the paper as saying "Naturally, • REL Ger Secret 702
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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.