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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I Secret REL Ger '0! -PP!: A' SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY 4 January 1954 Me4011ANDUM POR Deputy Director, Plana 6118.44T .?ropatiand Oampaign Agoinst ZIPPER , • . 1. Beakgromnd. Beginning with the flight eastward at the end of October 1953 of a 6oviet-21MR double-agent the COmmuniat Press has been making a full-fledged, effort to destroytha Oehlen organisation by means of publicity. An far ,bank as Jupe 1952 we learned that Gerhard Eisler, than the East German Propaganda chief, WWI in possession of a ubroohure P of thellehlen organization which it wee expected he would.. release. However, the time was apparently not considered opportune for nothing appeared. The Oeyar a pse exposi) vas the opening gun in a 80Tied of release!). It was followed immediately by the publiciaotion of the arrest of Werner Haase for Iaying a wiresorosa the inter-sootor boundary in Berlin. (It 'is suspected that this may have been a kidnapping and that false aharges ware eubliahed me a part of this campaign.) On the whole, prior to those C385d the Amerioan press had been quiet on the subject of General Gahlen. luropean papers hava contained sporadic) ertialea for several yaura, come of than reflecting Communist smear attempts which had appeared in the left-wing.- prese. -Bewever, with the publication of the ADP releasaof 18 Noseber 1953 (Attachment "A") we can expect a rash ot artieles throughout Western Europe and the United States. The ADN article) has a foundation of fact woven into a fabrio made up of several propaganda themuslwhioh we oun expect to appear in western articles. Thu. identity of those themes with the Soviet line should be used to diacrodit any atorias eppearing in the Western prees. (Stemple! Attaohmont "B") • . - 2. Mengege Mom "The Oeblen Organisation; . d. ie.engagad in /laden and anti-democratic aotivities. Following thin line, Oenera1 Oehler is tied in With the BUJ incident and iv aooUsed of continuing its aotivities underground. b; is 1.1Apo1, i.e. engaged in oriminal activities. d. le Bad and contains many Nazis and members of the 83 and 8D among its ranks. SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY' La the German (laurel Staff NTRET REL Get 751 Secret
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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.