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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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  • p. 46 …lereioe end, ile..hops,,,s friendly end cooperating cmes , Pot our present luer,ore.tica 1itsbnlasts…
  • p. 56 …All preparations and plans for such an • eventuality are made in closest cooperation with the DS…
  • p. 64 …between ZIPPER and the BrIr is deplorable; cooperation is al- most non-existent: ZIPPER provides the…
  • p. 73 …countries overseas; others are recruited for IS- cooperation by Allied IS authorities. Only worthless individuals or…
  • p. 112 …Gehlen who closely cooperates With the Adenauer Government in West Germany and who keeps several branches…
  • p. 116 …close cooperation with the State agencies of security. The papers cited other cases in the past…
  • p. 128 Secret REL Ger intelligence -- 4 • Cooperation is close, without question. The organization has been turning up…
  • p. 135 …Propaganda effect on the people, in order to get them to cooperate lin the untsovering of…
  • p. 170 …Once a continuing contact is established, cooperative work on details will develop. The stress on secrecy…
  • p. 187 …is far outweighed • by the value of cooperation with KUBARK in this field. Thus, the collection…
  • p. 188 …To what extent this will event—: - ually effect our cooperative effort with the ZIPPER intelligence apparatus…
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TO GERMANY ONLYAgency. The data on Hans LUTZ, head of OV 0, and on KarIGARTEHFSID,
Berlin representative, seem to have been obtained Lithe spring of
1953. Undoubtedly both. LUTZ and GAHM= became known to the op-
position as a result of the years they have spent in extensive intel-
ligence activity. The information on two other OV 0 members was
parently obtained in 1949 and is no longer aecurate. Of the eleven
members of GV 0 identified in the prese articles, six bad been drop-
ped by the fall of 1933; the five remaining members bad become known
partially due te their lengthy intelligence activity and ynrtiallY
due to various security incidents.
In the case of GV 0, ea in the cuss. of two other General
Agents.* it is of interest to note that the . CS staff member was
Identified ae the deputy agency leader.. It has not been possible to
ascertain why these inaccurate designations seen to follow a pattern.
DV 0s main office has been in Munich sines early 1955, as was an.
eurateiy reported in the press. It is not known how the opposition
diecovered this fast.
putriet Aasnor B fiV Ms The law level and .generally
significant information reported in the press on= S was undoubt-
edly obtained through the test Gorman Ministry of State Boouritiy
Interrogation Of Verner HAASE. 'The location of HV E Headquarters,
aid the true name of the leader of Z were not in to HAASE, •
and did not appear in the newspapers. The report identifying Botha
SEROSAW of DerlinoTemplibcd* as a DV IC Wittrainer refers to a DV Z
staff moMbei who used - the** qlleinS HIROMAHM* in 1950 while
training a W/T agent who was later involved in a security incident.
The staff member did net Use the name iBERGHANAM'after 1950, but Its
did remain at the same address. DIPPER is now trying to determine',
how the opposition learned of oBEROMAHN Ial, home address; *BEROMANK"
has been evacuated from Berlin; Three other persona identified as
members of DV B bad been dropped in early 1952 as the result of a
security incident.
Generel'itiener II (QV lilt The information on DV D paraaatel
vas compiled, for tbo most part, aa a result of the Hans4ceehie
WM defection. Bowser, Whom not as yet been determined how
the true mane Of the deputy leader of a II was obtained, or how the
taw and Alsatians of two other DV B membere were learned. ill
possible security measures are being taken to ensure that the ap-
position yill not be able to obtain any further information on the
organisation of DV R. •
The cost complete press reports on
auy ZIPPt activity were those dealing with QV 16 21/11G0s WM- -
Agency. Ascgrete data were presented on the leaders of DV 14 aid
on two of the subordinate offices. Of the nineteen Feinber g of DV L
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