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 ^ German radio broadcasts, investigate rofugoes, and establish an oltensive file on the basis of the documentary material thus gathered are able to form a . procise picture of conditions in the Soviet Zone without imperiling innocent people" (5). A rightist Nuremberg paper voiced a .similar opinion when it said that thd "unfortunate" people in the GDR who worked for the Gehlen - organization out of idealism and patriotic passion have risked their lives for no good cause. The paper blamed the "increasing deterioration and corruption" of the modern intelligence agencies for the "liquidation of hundreds of people" (6). The attitude of the Communist-sponsorOd press was typically reflected in the commentary of the mouthpiece of former Reich Chancellor Wirth, which came out with a vehement attack on the "disgusting methods" of the "American-financed" Gohlen organization. The paper claimed that the June 17 riots, the,"notorious" activities of the •010.1 in Hesse, and the Geyer affair are all. indicative of the West's intention to "prepare a world . war" (7). Sources 1. Hamburg Die Welt Nov. 11, 1953 2. Hamburg Der Spiegel Nov. 18, 1953 3. Berlin Telegraf 'Nov: 10, 1953 .4. Frankfurt Frankfurter Rundschau Nov. 17, 1953 5i Frankfurt Frankfurter Allgemeine Nov. 20, 1953 64 Nuremberg Nuernberger Nachrichten Nov. 11, 1953 7, Fulda Detitsche Volkszeitung Nov, 11, 1953 REL Ger Secret 706
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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.