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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.

  • p. 6 …Thl_ es however, never developed beyond the paper stem, and at presemt Jee ps to be…
  • 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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• 1. In order properly to aseess the ZIPPER capabilities:"for covering the -
airfield() in the following list at the present time, the POB reports staff
studied the files in POB on sources, target ormage, and recently-produced
reports on the various atrgelds. The evaluation of the coverage capabilities
is a oompOsite of all the materials consulted. The evaluations possible are .
indicated below' •
Excellent. More than three sources reporting regularly on the activities
. .
at the target. The content of the reports indicates that the.
sources have a good Altura potential and understand the nature
of the target.
Good t More than three sources reporting regularly. The content of
the reports indicates a restricted capability of the source
either to report or to gain access to the target area.
1 Fair t Three 'or less sources reporting regularly. Saporta lnklicate
that the sources are not in a good position to report ill the
information desired on a target.
Poor t No regular reporting. Eltetoby .reports.
one i No capability.
Plat Germany
Target Neste
1. Altenburg
2. Altengrabow New
3. Alt-iiinnewite
4, Barth
5. Santana/Litton
6. .Erandenburg/Brieet
7. Brandenburg/Industrishafen
8. Brandin
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Fair
None
Fair
None
Good
Good
Excellent
Good
Fair
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