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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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A. Onnooitinn Knowledse
The docUments in the field of radio which fell into the hands
of the opposition were especially extensive and detailed. We must there.-
fore begin with the point of view that the enemy,.on the basis of theme
dominants and statements by arrested radio agents, has in his possession
considerable detail On radio activities of the organization. The follow.
lag points are known to the mews
(1) General BEI:
(2) Radio procedure.
(3) Status of radio matters.
(4) Steadfastness in crisis, and related selection of
personnel.
(5) Protection and security measured (Wing of sets, sot
construction, jamming, corer stories used for training).
(6) Course of training.
(47) New °Mandell°
(8) Details on the plaoea in which radios were to be cot up
(Halls, Wittenberg, Leipzig, Koenigetein, Koonigshrueck,
Forst).
(9) The instruction of Headquarters* 0We need more radio
operators".
(10) Equipmentcwith two sets.
(11) Description of the advantages and disadvantages of the
sets (3-WU, RS-6, aid 12-4G).
(12) Burial of radio sets—protection against moisture with
the help of artificial bags, cooking pans, etc.
(13) Headquarters has a department at its dispOsition which
can handle the soldering of radio sets into copper,casse.
(14) instruction for radio operators in times of stress
(article published in Soviet Zone press).
(15) Radio operators aid novices. Training of novices takes
so mush time that future planning should primarily in-
clude former radio operators
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