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 SECI`L'i SECRET/RELEASE -2- TO GERMANY ONLY d) Go/lien's staff was in- discriminately selected "starting from a heedful of former SS officers and.Wesis in 1945"1 the Masi element . now dominates the organisa- •ion. e) U.S. intelligence is de- pendent upon Gehlen for its Soviet and Satellite OD coverage. Instead of de- veloping its own networks, CIA is relying on the Germens• 0 The Americans favor sub- ordination of the Ceblen group to the future West German De- fense Ministry following Motion of the Contractual Agreements. d) During the war, Gehlen's staff was the (-2 of the Fremde Heers Ost (Eastern Armica). The greatest per- centage of his staff is Cab. , posed of former German Gen- eral Staff officers and career Abwehr personnel. The few former SS officers and Masi Earty members, who found employment IA the organ- isation in the immediate post- war period, have been fired. The remainder have been de- nasified. e) It is noted that Hr. Lippmann has been reassure that this is not the case. Gehlen's production is of value to U.S. military authorities only insofar as it supplements and confirms our own information. f) It le not our intention to interfere in the internal affairs of the Manaus, • Government. Chancellor Adenauer, himself, has stated his intention to in- tegrate Oehlen's Organisa- tion into the Federal Chancellory. It is true that Blank and Make far on certain details of the proposed legalisation of Oehlen's staff. .3. In view of recent, vide-spread publicity on the Gehlen organisation and the fact that U. S. sponsorship is now known throughout Western Europe and the Soviet Bloc, it might be advisable to inform Mr. 14ppmann that as trustee of thll Gehlen SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY LUfl • REL Ger Secret 710
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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.