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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 ONLY
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ZIPPER Capability for Reporting on SHAPE Beet dermany Targets.
REP, Top Secret . Document listing East Germany Targets promo , SWIPE Study
1. Reference dooument which consisted of seven peges of detained list.
ing of military air and ground telli once targets in East Germany wee hand
Carried to POB on 1 July by He. identified the document as
part of a SHAPE document that had been handed to by the
clandestine planning committee in Paris to determine "what reporting assets
DURK had which could report on those targets just before and just after the
outbreak of hootilities."
2: We have speculated on the purpose of this particular exercise, since
it seems to duplicate, to someextent, the ICCO target review and appears rer.
lated to 411111111 and other arrangements designed to evaluate the U.S. intelli -
gence capability of providing "early warning" information.
3. Attachment #1 IA a compilation prepared by the Pullen's MARE staff
of ZIPPEtR o s current reporting capabilities on the targets listed. Concerning
this documents .
a. It is very senaitivosnd should not be. passed outside of MARK.
Atts 3
1. ZIPPER Capability, 8 July 54#.0LTS 943 cys of 3 cys
2: Early Warning Study, 29 Nov 53, in duplicate
3.. Airfields in East Germany, Czech, Poland, OLTS MA, 1 07 .of 1 oY
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