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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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In a_dition, Allied ant:-:orities con] be intrumental
in gettin g our 2eople acce-is to reft .gde camos, such as the
foreigners' camp in Wannsee, Am .3-J:nawerjer,.which can ohly
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tion card with ;hotoarqsh . of the hearer Is.e_issned to Inter-
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for the West. Toward Allied authorities they can always prove
their identity by stating the emergency numbsr.
The necessity for such documents results from the fact .
that in pursuit of their tasks, personnel in question must
constantly contact oersons not belonging to the organization,
and on the other hand, from the fact that the people in Berlin i
are very careful and alarmed to be approached by Soviet pro- !
vocateurs.
Corresponding to the West-German identification cards for
interrogators, such should also be made out in Polish, Czech
and Russian.
II. The present status of negotiations on the German level
is as follows:
1. We maintain close cooneration with the ap.encies
handling emergency ::Amieision , roced y res; three interrogators.
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of the B erlin eenate.
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