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 -- 3 COPY blowing up Red Army communications trains, and they turned . aver to the Gehlen organisation the job of forming and training such unite in the days immediately after the Korea attack. Only when the group finished Ito training, it sat up in the Taunua mountaina with nothing to dos and so it began preparing lists of people to' bump off, an veil as railroad bridges, etc. The fact is that thellehlen group had picked a orcmd of ox-Nazi toughs for thie job, and the CIA, as well as the U.S. High COmmiesion were caught completely unawat:e of what was going. on, when a copy of the "blacklist" fell into the hands of the Beisse.' government. The affair vas quickly hushed up, after a week or two of fireworks in Germanb by a "joint investigation" of the Federal Government and the U.S..lilgh Commie/don. The group was diebanded, and Walter Seel Smith, then CU head, made a trip to Germany in an effort to clean the organisation out. Put by now it bad become so compartmentalized and so* spidery that not a great deal could be &mei Gehlen himself is generally regarded as a. sound, decent ex-pro- fessional sadiSW:but starting from the handful of foriiit'S officers and Nazis in 3.945, the Nazi or lasi44 nded element seems to have beonem, dominant in the group. The mare seribue condition Is that, the CIA seems to have ignored. the problem of openetratine the organization on Its ova, so that CIA does not know muchisore than superficially just how it operates, or to what channels outside the "limits of its contract with the group it mightbe venturing. REL Ger Secret 714 I I I I '111I
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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.