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.
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SECiCiR T/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY Secret REL Ger d. ZIPPER is in complete agreement that the necessary ( files (signal plans, ciphers, operating instructions, rosters, etc.) to establish a ZIPPER Headquarters and Base Station at any point where it may be necessary should be in safe storage in US hands. They have never accepted the fact that construction of Wignal plans and the training of ZIPPER WIT agents should be directed towards facilitating communication with an American base station manned exclusively by American personnel. See MGLI-5088 and 6574, subject "Signal Plans". e. A ZIPPER outside base station, staffed with a skeletal crew and capable of immediate expansion to meet ZIPPER base station requirements in time of tension or upon the outbreak of war by priority evacuation of 45 available ZIPPER operators . to the base station area, is the optimum ZIPPER aim. The minimum ZIPPER aim is an alternate US developed and controlled base sta- tion with an adequate number of operating positions to be manned by ZIPPER operators to be evacuated from Germany in time of 1 ension or upon the outbreak of war. 3. The U.S. Position. a. Six months of discussion between POR and Washington in late 1950 resulted in a decision to permit ZIPPER to develop an outside base station (OSMOSIS) with only material assistance from the U.S. WASHA-24880 gave final approval to develop the ZIPPER outside base station and laid down the principle of ag . ZIPPER operators in American base stations. A week later, i MGEW-7443 (originating in the CommouOffice) stated "For planning ! purposes it is assumed by the Home Office that, in the event of hostilities, the ZIPPER staybehind circuits will be worked into U.S. controlled and operated bases which will preclide the use . of ZIPPER base radio operators." Feeling that this indicated a partial conflict, tOB asked for clarification in PULLA-1617. WASHA-2/784 in late January stated "pasic volicv t . ,void Z MR tie-in AIE where t•is •ur •es lit e .... 1. . tOi • C). 02.0 es allE irl mTniEtti" : 111 •e b S Zi" .• i i • U .,,:, me e s n I.: i 12111044011., a ay eh n.s permi con ac with base s a on...s O' b n vlanning should provide for such qont mew." b. We have not previously, among POB, Karlsruhe and Washington, discussed in terms of policy many of the broader aspects of the German position. 4. DUring the first half of 1951,11191111,1111,1, the POB Communications Officer has been repo ng his con nuing efforts to have ZIPPER modify its signal plans and procedures SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY REL. Ger SecnA 644 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.