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 Get SECRET/RELEASE SECRET • <1,4- ( zsc TO GERMANY ONLY MEMORANDUM FOR* Chief .f Operations SUBJECTI Report entitled °Hated States Intelligence Operations in Germay" -- :eliding General Gehlen l e Organisation 1. Although the report, 0 0: S. Intelligence Opera- tion) in Germany°, from one of Mr. Walter Lippmann i e etringern in Germany Sc essentially accurate reggrding the development of the Gehlen organization under U. S. trusteechip from 190 to date it dose contain striking errors and distorted half-trutha on points where source is clearly misinformed. 2. The following lea brief outline of noteworthy misrepresentations as opposed to the rectos Anemone Sta a) Gehien's first same is given es °Gustav°, an error which has appeared fre- quently in the U. S. and East German press in recent weeks. b) Source identifies the U.S. sponsored Weetlernan sabotage organisation, exposed In 1951, as an instrument of the &Wan organisation. 0) Source-elaina that General Smith went to Germany, fol- lowing& joint investigation of the SW by the federal Republic and U. 11. High Commission, to "clean the organisation out". LUSA a) Gana*, aldsti .Gehlen is well known s° the chief ore U.S. sub- 'sidised Meet German intel- ligence group in both of. . tidal and unofficial circles in the Federal Republic. b) Source obvioualymi fors to the which was exposed in the fall of 1952. Gehlan was in no way involved. c) General Smith sever went to Germany for this purpose. SECRET/RELEASE • • TO GERMANY ONLY Stic!-;t_ • 709 REL Get Secret
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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.