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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mau -2- .1 .1 Secret REL Ger SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY In order to strengthen his position. He wanted to prove to the people of the Et Zone that Weetern espionage activity would be destroyed in the East Zone under his leadership, and that a new 17th of June would'no..,. longer be possible. b. Strengthening of the position of the SSD. The people of the East Zone were to be brought to see that the existence of the SSD and its further expansion was neoessary. • e. Destruction of the confide-nee and sense of escurity of our.. agents in the Zone, with the purpose of causing them to discontinue their work or to report to the SSD. d. Frightening the populace of the East Zone from letting • themselves be used by Western services, especially by this organisation. Propaganda effect on the people, in order to get them to cooperate lin the untsovering of Western agents, in the interests of the state. • e. Attempt to confuse and paralyze our Field Bailee, making them fee/ exposed as a result of the publicity. f. Influencing the Berlin Four-Power Conference, which was scheduled to convene soon. g. Making political difficulties for our organisation in Meet Germany. 6, asefLegkolthempaition prooaeanda on our agents MP astonishine)7 slight. The morale of the agents and their confidence in the organication could, with very few exceptions, not be shaken. Our agents were stuffed for years by the Soviet Zoos bosses with propaganda based on lies, so this present action did not make a convincing impres- sion and thus blew up. The SSD 9 8 attempts to induce all our agents to report to them was without MOM. Opposition claims that 31 of our agents had confessed in remorse, are Untrue and pure oppOrtunietio propaganda. Not a single case of this is known. Also, no objective proofs could be given by the Soviet Zone authorities. 7. From the technical IS point of dew, the opposition succeeded in 1953 in making some penetrations of our organisation, and in dealing us a number of severe blows. Much at we deplore the fate of the affected agents and their families, it must be pointed out that this had to do only with certain nets, and, therefore, our espionage operations in general were in no way paralyzed or decisively diminished. On the other hand, the penetrations by the opposition should be a force- ful warning to VA and a stimulus to learn more from these experiences than before, and to take more effective security measures in the future, SECRET/RELEASE Lox TO GERMANY ONLY REL Ger Secret 722
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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.