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 -- 4 • Cooperation is close, without question. The organization has been turning up what the military regards as excellent material on the Russians. But the suspicion, for whiCh. there is only circumstantial evidence, is that in addition the Oehlen group bee already gone far beyond its original intelligence missien, and is in contact with, if not directing the activities of, the group of German officeri vho have settled in Caire, the group of ex.-Basle in Mhdrid, and the group in Argentina. There were, moreover, public charges at the time of the General Inaction in Germany that the Gehlen group was wire-tapping and doing political spying against the political opponents of the Adenauer regime.. The problem confronting American authorities at this point seems to resolve itself in two general directions: 2) To What extent are we reliant On the Gehlen group for our military intelligence, and 2) Rhat kind of an organisation have we now been caught 0eponsoring" and to whom is it to be turned over in Germany? ' Taking up the second of these problems fireti when the "contreetual agiseeent2 with'Oermany acme into foroe, it will, at that point, be necessary for the United States to cease its independent sponiorahip of this German organicatioa, and at that time the intention, or the expectation, is that theGehlen group will be transferred to the control of the German government. There already exists between the Oehlen group and the German Federal Chancellery a close working arrangement-- Which has given rise to the charges of *politic:al wire-tapping" by the group, and also to the circumstantial euspiolons about its part in German activities in Cairo, Madrid and Buenos Aires. 715 REL Ger Secret
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