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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r, (1) • I Secret REL Ger sEnttSECREPRELEASE rGLA-8122 TO GERMANY ONLY Page 2 The whole problem has been greatly complicated during the past year by the deVelop- ment by UTILITY of a number of "independent" 1111111-type operations which produce a large numbc,r of information reports dealing almost exclusively with political mutters. A year ago UTILITY was providiu_l_p_more important Donn customers, primarilY11111111i, with both '2,IPPER and reports coordinated only by supar- ficial evaluation carried out by t§JSTEURER. This practice produced considorable friction and eventually CMEHNE, strcr_ supported by GHERDARL and probably by dICLAUSINI, persuaded UTILITY that 111.111Datexial.- should be integrated with ZIPPER information by the ZIPPER ovaluation•staff. •These reports, with special red-stripe markings and classified in accordance with UPGROWTH• security regulations, are now received by 0-MUHL. However, neither he nor UCUFA NIE's -operational staff are given source information on these reports. In January 1954, one of these original 'red- stripe" reports came by accident to me. I utilized this incident to take issue with UTILITY on this entire procedure charging that UTILITY was morally obliguted to provide imam with any and all intelligence information on the Soviet Bloc, includins the GDR, that came to him through operations controlled by him regardless of the origin of the funds involved. Since that time,•OMERDAHL has been instructed by UTILITY to prepare carbon copies of those reports which he feels are of interest to KUBARK, and to forward these copies to UTILITY for concurrence and transmisiion to us. Off the record, WYRDAHL told me that he has been receiving U.TDUSK material on the Soviet Bloc, including the GDR, since the first of the year and has, with P314 exceptions, found thee reports to be general in character and of little or no value, particularly since be has Do access to source data. • 1 5. The FOB staff has noted a gradual, if email, improvement in ZIPPER political 1 report(ng during the Fast year and does not feel that any chunge in our present . i procedure for disseminating political EGlis is indicated. It is extremely important i• that politidal reports originating with the UJDUSK operation be considered as a distinct and separate problem. . Although we initially disseainated oeveral or these 11 reports. passed personally by UTILITY, we now simply accept and forward them as raw 1 material from uncontrolled sources, i.e., 1111.1. i! 6. Unfortunately UTILITY occasionally confuses the situation by taking a regular ZIPPER .source report out of the ZIPPER mill and passing it to us with vague reference to none of my own sources." 7. Ma have never been able to fathom what subtle purposes UTILITY may have in mind by his repeated and unprovoked assertions that there exists an unbridgeable gap between his and the ROARK concept of political intelligence. He has repeatedly stated that worthwhile political intelligence can only come from high-level sources and that high-level sources are se sensitive that they cannot safely be identified beyond the immediate agent-handling echelon. Following his proponal regarding covorage of the Geneva Conference (SPULL 7554), 1 expressed to UTILITY our feeling that most of his so-called political reports were in content so general and with regard to source so vague that no responsible intelligence agency could disseminate them to a customer. I referred UTILITY to several specific reports, including the famous red striped one MLA 7201) of January 1954, suggesting that the contents could have been the rosnit of an educated guess produced by any competent student of soviet foreign policy and that the value of subject report was related solely to tho position of the sautes. To emphasize this point, I asked UTILITY to assume that his SECRET SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY . REL Ger Secret 768
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 218 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.