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 intelligence --- 2 In that year, as a meat of agreement in Vashington; responsibility for the Oehlen group was. tarred from Army 0-2 cootion to the Contra Intelligence Agency. Under CIA, the intelligenoe-gathering functions and the staff of the Oehlen group continued to enlarge. Bir now, it was placed on a contract basis" by which the United Stateeprovided funds, and the • Whim group provided military information from Eastern Europe and the satellites. This contract, however, is limited only to military informatiOn, the idea at the time being that the Oehlen group would not be indulging in other fields anyway -- such as operations directed in countries other than the satellites, or the gathering of political or economic intelli- gence (i.e., test-Vest trade, or Oommuniat party activities). The first awkward break on Oehlen group activities came in Germany in the fall of 3.951, when the lemister,Preeident of the state of Besse suddenly disclosed to his parliament that a group of young Germans had been trained in sabotage work at the direction of the American crA, using a oanp in the Taunus %suntans of Oereepy, aid that this group had drawn up. a !blaoklisto of members af.the Social Democratic party and other political leaders in Germany whom they planned to aelladnates ;AS the luselans should happen to attack. The faits of the case seem to be that the CIA conceived the idea that trained saboteurs should be left bob/id in Germany if the American Army ever had to retreat. They should be equipped with supplies for 713 REL Ger Secret
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