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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CLASSIFICATION GER tli(E9NLYTO Secret REL Ger 'Miry.... SECRET/RELEASE OISt ATCH NO. E6L.11,--83.2Z_ TO : Chief, DATE. 16 MAR, 1954 ATTN: FROM : Chief of Base, Pullach C014 SUBJECT: GENERAL— Operational/ZIPPER SPECIFIC— ZIP.PNi. Political Reporting 1. ZIPPER' political reporting is certainly the most controversial aspect of ' the German effort. Within both the ZIPPER and PCB staffs the ZIPPER effort in this field has been the subject of continuing debate at both working and top echelons. 2. Several years ago when we first claw) this problem our atteation, it appeared to be reasonably uncomplicated. The =Pat field agencies were preoccupied with the production of information for our military customers and had not been subjected to any pressure to produce political intelligence of the' type which is stock-in-trade for CIC/Berlin. At the headquarters staff level, political information was processed in the Cl/CE office which considered political information only as an integral element of the Cl/CE product. The only political effort in the evaltiation staff dealt with the analysis of high-level and almost entirely overt matorial on the USSR which was carried out by DROUTIGAM, mu head of the Eastern Section in the Foreign Office, or by former Ambasoador von D1RIC.SM, who was eventually dropped by ZIPPER from his consultant status because of non-authorized political activity. OKLAUSNER, ZIPPER I s CE chief, is still responsible for passing 'political requirements to the - field. Because he tends to handle these as an element of his Cl/CE effort, and because he ,does not have much stature with the ZIPPER field agencies, political information requirements have never been accorded any priority in the collection field. 3. Our insistence that ZIPPER establish a more systematic evaluation procedure resulted in the establishment of a political evaluation group at the time that OMANI, became chief of evaluation and Dr. Otto BRAEUTIGIN left ZIPPIR for his present Bonn post. 01C/AUS14112 has managed to retain most of his authority and the respective responsibilities of the CE and evaluation staffs remain =clarified. Uehersickt is the product of an ad hoc committee with representation from all ZIPPER staffs which can in any way contribute; normal 'staff arrangements remain almost as unsatisfactory as heretofore. 4. UTILITY has never shown any intereat in resolving this problem. lie does not believe that the ZIPPER field agencies, i.e., 110 V t 0, lend themselves to this type of collection. In fact, I am convinced that UTILITY rilagia the collectiaL,pS political intellizence on the GDR on behalf of the Americans-1a e ebycobloRq Action Req. • SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY S.. by pouchDistribution: -. EE (DIRECT) 3 - CON 15 March 1954 FORM NO. 51-28ANAL 1949 1Hq Comments Req. by cablo 5*. para ---.... by pouchSECRET CLASSIFICATION 767 REL Ger 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.