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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tier SECRET/RELEASELE= TO GERMANY ONLY Observation of locations, training areas, and maneuvers of the Soviet Army, 724 REL Ger Secret SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY 00 \ 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. a. lidiajfino_katimigm_guumisalc_.2LL_Ihnabe,, 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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