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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(2) (3) Bkpedient reproduction photos (Behelfsmaeseige Repro- Aufnahmen) Development of latent pioturee SECRET SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY Secret REL Ger SECRET SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY must alse sbe regarded is endangered, at least. In addition to the doom- 1 mente EGVe for the acquisition of documents from the GDR and.Polands the AI in regard to the new PAD (East German identity document), and DOW document instruotione and reports also bseame known to the opposi- tion,. As a result of the loos of the ERI's, instructions end reports, •the enemy was able to gain a platers of Cur work in the d000ment The Mi l s and forms ware already obsolescent at the time of their loss, however, and needed a reworking or s. new edition. The ELI in regard to • the new PAD is, of °curse, current, but the enemy must have known, oven 'without knowledge of this EtI, that every IS is most interested in the atquisition of the new GDR identity document. At the time of the f/aps, now identity documents were issued in Poland as well at in the GDR, and, in this senneotiom, a few general changes were undertaken in the document field. Thus, our documents section would have had to champ its issuance of documents regardless of the flaps. Nothing is known to the oppositio, concerning the status of the new enticns! being prepared by our documents section. In crier to assure as such as possible our continued work in the field of - documents the change in the method 'of work and distribution of M os, whieh was planned before the flaps, was oarriedAhrough - expedi- tiouely. The requirements of security were treated as primary in all measures taken. All false doiumentation, with a few minor exceptions, has been withdrawn. • The same thing happened with all papers . and .reeords, which. have been reduced to a minimum in all field offices. As far as can be determined from reports and from new original material which has gone out since the flaps, neither controls nor other security measures in th,. document fieldlave been increased Uf the opposition. 0. Beecnuaissanee ttotgmrenbr ?he enemy has probably also increased his knowledge about • this organization in the field of reeennaisaance photography. It can be assumed that our wishes in regard to the purchase and acquisition of new Soviet Zone cameras and field glasses were known to the enemy. In addition, the increased use of pre-war cameras has probably become known, the possession of these cameras being more readily explained by 4 cover story theta is the ease with new or West Zone camera. It can further be assumed that the following instructions have become known, either in written form or verbally as a result of interrogationes Contact process with the *T o apparatus (Rontakt Var- fahren mir desa giT u Onset) • (1) REL Ger Secret 732
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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.