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.
Secret REL Ger SECRET/RELEq TO GERMANY ON RET BOLA-8122 Page 3 office was a political target of a foreign service and that a source, described as "Pullach source," provided a report describing in general terms UTILITY 's thinking on the question of ZIPPER legalization in , including his personal views regarding the relations between. and the three Allied governments on this particular issue. If the source were identified, for example, as QBARTWIG, UTI4ITY's closest aide and confidant, even a generalized report would have value. however, if the source, were any one of the several hundred individuals in the Rqs, who have no access to either UTILITY personally or to his files, it would be most difficult to accept such a report.. yet this is precisely the responsibility that UTILITY eXpects us to assume in accepting most of his so-called political reports from high-level .sonrces. UTILITY acknowledged that our position was not entirely without merit and . immediately retreated into his old argument that there was simply a difference in philosophies which had not been resolved. 8. From the above, which is admittedly a very superficial analysis of a complicated problem, the inescapable fact remains that the UTILITY/ZIPPERS complex can hardly be considered well-equipped to produce for KUBARK useful politi- cal intelligence. At the same time, we feelthatthere in very, little to be gained by passing on to UTILITY evaluations of the typo contained in EGLW 601. PO staff members who have studied analysis of this particular Karlshorst report are in full agreement with but are divided on their views regarding the advisability of passing to UTILITY this type of evaluation which, if one admits to the errors and/or discrepancies which were noted at the time the report was made, is fairly hypothetical and not based upon inescapable logic. I feel that we should indulge in this type of analysis for our own purposes and to build up ammunition but should not pass it on to UTILITY unless we have a fairly strong. ease indicating deception and/or fabrication. We should continue to 'urge ZIPPER to produce a more substantive type of political reporting which uill lend itself to more concrete evaluations on our part. On the working level, we will increase our immediate scrutiny of individual reports by particular sources and, where possible, restate our specific interests in individual qargets. We will try to sharpen further ZIPPER. awareness of reporting techniques Such as the frequently far-fetched "field oomments." Concurrently we will continue to exercise pressure on UTILITY to bring hist/1W •ZIPPER house in order and to create ZIPPER procedures for handling political infor- mation, including more systematic examination of both source and content data. Then later this summer it will again be time to re-evaluate what We are receiving And whether agy improvement has been made. SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY SECRET MUM 769 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.