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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.

  • p. 6 …Thl_ es however, never developed beyond the paper stem, and at presemt Jee ps to be…
  • 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…
SECRET/RELEASE
TO GERMANY ONLY
'EEVFI/G/DAILY LOG - 19 DECEMBER 1953
The Eaet German news agency, ADN, has published on its East
Berlin teletype to the SovZone s 17)December 1953, A lenghty
sensational account, credited to recent arrested ZIPPER
agents, of U.S. control Of ZIPPER. In this report, ZIPPER
is identified as an organization Of 2,000 official employees
who art, engaged in support of U. S. war and disruption policy
in Germany and the Adenauer Government. Forty D. S. espionage
officers have been assigned from Washington to direct and
maintain financial control over the organization at its
headquarters iu Pullich. Gehlen is described as a front man,
who has won out over Theodor BLANE t s intelligence eaction in
competition for the position of future GIS'. In addition to
penetrations of the Bundesent fuer Verfaseungechutz (SfV),
the Blank Office in the person of General Adolf Heusinger,
Gehlen is reported to have a penetration of U. S. Head-
quarters 'in Germany, who keeps him informed of U. S.
decisions on ZIPPER.
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