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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. 57 …They have never accepted the fact that construction of Wignal plans and the training of ZIPPER…
  • p. 73 …in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany). Never- theless it will be necessary in the future…
  • p. 129 …he was nothing but a civil servant, never an active party map and simply did vSit…
  • p. 133 …on the part of the affected organization never.1 theless, 412 view of the exacting price…
  • p. 146 …as a flap, the ERHARDT flap would never have arisen, since ERHARlYf would then have been…
  • p. 180 …UTILITY has never shown any intereat in resolving this problem. lie does not believe that the…
  • p. 181 …Ma have never been able to fathom what subtle purposes UTILITY may have in mind by…
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who were mentioned by name, all but three are currently employed by
GV L. As a result of the opposition's extensive knowledge- it will
be necessary to take imbediate steps to ensure that no further dam.
age will he done.
Fivu'members.of OV L were compromised is a reault of the ceb.:,
auction and successful interrogation of. Wolfgang HOMER by the East
German Ministry :of State Security. It has not yet been possible to
ascertain how the opposition learned the name of the other QV 1,1 mem.
hers, and how they were able to determine, accurately, their dates
of birthvaddresses and in some eases, even telephone numbers. In
general, however, certain ninorerrors medwie these Identifications
would tend to indicate that this infonvitgon was obtainetinot by
direct observation, but by verbal rape:tins.
,Drastic measures will be taketeto.inorease the,sedurity of
QV L. It has been ouggeeted that CV L be completely mulmrdsed,
and that each member of CV L be thoroughly reassessed.
Oeneral'Asenev 0 (CV Ott The op
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positiotkla knowledge of CV 0
Immo to be rather meagre. The location of the min office of CV
is not in Stocking, as reported, but in Stockdarf. It is not known •
however, how the'oppositiactatained thie information. The covws
tomes of the leader of UV 0 and of his deputy were mentioned in the
press reports. These names have been used for maw years end there-
fore could have become known to the opposition through any oftt
number of way*.
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