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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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  • p. 46 …lereioe end, ile..hops,,,s friendly end cooperating cmes , Pot our present luer,ore.tica 1itsbnlasts…
  • p. 56 …All preparations and plans for such an • eventuality are made in closest cooperation with the DS…
  • p. 64 …between ZIPPER and the BrIr is deplorable; cooperation is al- most non-existent: ZIPPER provides the…
  • p. 73 …countries overseas; others are recruited for IS- cooperation by Allied IS authorities. Only worthless individuals or…
  • p. 112 …Gehlen who closely cooperates With the Adenauer Government in West Germany and who keeps several branches…
  • p. 116 …close cooperation with the State agencies of security. The papers cited other cases in the past…
  • p. 128 Secret REL Ger intelligence -- 4 • Cooperation is close, without question. The organization has been turning up…
  • p. 135 …Propaganda effect on the people, in order to get them to cooperate lin the untsovering of…
  • p. 170 …Once a continuing contact is established, cooperative work on details will develop. The stress on secrecy…
  • p. 187 …is far outweighed • by the value of cooperation with KUBARK in this field. Thus, the collection…
  • p. 188 …To what extent this will event—: - ually effect our cooperative effort with the ZIPPER intelligence apparatus…
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Observation of locations, training areas, and maneuvers
of the Soviet Army,
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in Its execution, exhibited aetounding speed and flexibility in the
making of deeitions. In the SCHULTZ cace, the action agelnet SCHU12Z°0
wife was carried out withim a few hours after his-arra/A D and the *mai
came thereby into poesession of doeumentary material that waa moat
valuable for him.
In all flaps described in Section B, the enemy attempted to
F0 ° further, and sent individual letters of entortion to blown case
officers in the West, suggesting that they come to the lost Sector with
a promise of complete immunity from punishment. The letters were nor -
mally brought by relatives who resided in the Soviet Zone.
The striking per of the opposition executive is aloe remuurk-
able. As a result of the incident in West Berlin, ERRABDT'reported on
the afternoon of 29 October to his $SD case officer, and the arrest of
all persons mentioned in the personality files (including prospsote)
followed that night at approximately 2400, throughout the entire GDR.
It would be cumpletely wrong, in the present situation, to under-
estimate the opposition—eapecially the SSD. On the contrary, we must
OWSUM2 that the anew is improVing his methods evenings, on the basis of
these enporiences, and is training hie personnel more intensively.
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The knowledge gained by the -enemy in the separate flaps is
sketched in Attachments -I. – 3.
a. Persons
Ihowlidge gained about persons is not treated here. The
probable ocausequenoes have been discussed thoroughly with the competent
offices.
b. am/
it can be assumed that the organization and structure of
our organisation as it existed at the end'of 1953, is known to the
enemy in broad t:rms. The extensive correspondence earned on with the
KLEINBACH office made an important contribution to thip knowledge.
a. Ijkle oULABLOml,
The opposition has almost complete knowledge of our EEI's
for the GDR, as a result of seised documents, e.g.,

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