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 5 everybody who is fairly well informed knows that this office wad ,chiefly composed of SS men during the war. One also knows, however, that these circles are willing to serve this (the Adenauer) State. And well-informed agencies know, moreover, that the Gehlen organization has already rendered valuable services to out present State Administration. '(n) The SED and LDP news organs enumerated several facts 'from this press conference: namely, that 4,200 men are working for the 'organization; that the American High Commission is financing the group; that in 1950 Gehlen had used 18 million DM, and that 23 million DM were put at his disposal for the next fiscal year. (7,13) The NDP Voice, headlining its article "Western Press is Shocked," said that Mannheimer Mbrgen had not published a line on the affair. TaResspieRel, the paper went on, only reported on an "alleged" agent. The RIAS commentator is cited as having said: "No one would'believe us should we 00103 out with the assurance that there are no agents and spies working for the West." Frankfurter Allgemeine is said to have blamed the Gehlen organization for a careless selection of its coworkers. "As usual," the paper concluded, "the TeleRraf took the cake when, lacking better 'Ideas, it was of the opinion that Geyer had been an eastern 'agent and had now returned to East Berlin."(14) Edikrials Only five papers came out with editorials on the Gehlen case. Throughout their editorials, the papers made it a point to call upon the population for intensified vigilance and . close cooperation with the State agencies of security. The papers cited other cases in the past where agents and . spies were arrested in the GDR. Most of the papers used the' occasionto emphasize ,the need for greater vigilance in all sectors 'of the econonv and State. apparatus.(15,16,17) In an editorial on the case of a teacher Who had, picked up a food package in West Berlin, another paper stated that "the purpose of the'Americian 'Aid Program' is the recruiting of .agents for the American underground war. For this and tor the other espionage and sAbotage actions, the Gehlen spy apparatus.:.was created in West Germany." (12) 703 REL Get Secret
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