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 1.7a1.1111 SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY friti_ Se it . mr(L31.t.,t_ie Nzatit,..1mItgaset,Astatt. 1* The operational effort of this organisation was endangered during 1953 as a result of a series of compromieei described in Sec tion H. fteept for these, the number of flaps and losses was kept to a reasonable measure in 1953, considering the number of active sources, the increased difficulty of the work, and, especially, the heightened .CE activity of the opposition. For the most part, the causes of the flaps did not lie directly in intelligence activity, but in human Inadequacies (gossip, bragging; too high standard of living), dissen- sions, and thaughtlessness on the pert of agents. 2. At the end of Septette'. 1953, a propaganda offensive was begun in the ODE against the activities Of Western intelligence services. Arreets and sentences were published in the press, an the radio, and in speeches, and the "criminal activity' of theme so-called agents was forcibly brought to the attention of the GDR population. By 1 November 19513 the arrests of 98 Western agents (with nsmen given) were made known. Among than were 14 agents of our organisation. Up to this time however, this organisation was mentioned only incidentally, and Was iSot attacked in propaganda. 3. From the beginning of November, the bulk of tne Reposition zumagton_Lalmatut....Aw ab_mire.itui. The cause of this was the ERHARDT case, in the development of which the opposition was able to brimg ERHARDT forth at a press conference as a proeocution witness, and as a result of which they caught numerous agents in a roll-up. In this offensive the opposition brought out flaps which had occurred some tile ago, and also attributed compromised operations of other services to us. We were especially accused of sabotage and diversionary activities. 4. The series of announcements and publications about this Organ- isation, which took place in the middle of December, must also be seen in this connection. This resulted from a summation and evaluation of a mosaic of bite of knowledge which the opposition had collected in the course of years, from flaps as well as from its counter-espionage. These items were in part incorrect, inexact, or obsolete. These publi- cations had a positive result for us, however, in that the opposition had to make known in this way at least a part of its knowledge, thereby making it possible for us to carry through effective oweeter-smeaures (e.g., checking of case officer personnel). 5. ‘! a_mund •f the • • • • ••;I: nda o tea esitio a. Ernst WOLLOBER, who succeeded Wilhelm 2AISSER as Minister of State Security, needed results ehich taitrifit= TO GERMANY ONLY 721 REL Ger 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.