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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Secret REL Ger >se• EC ET/RELEASE . - 5- TO GERMANY ONLY SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY SECRET REL Ger 647 Secret officers on the POB staff have mobilization assignments to EUCOM units. Reliance on their availability is part of our evacuation and subsequent operational planning. Furthermore, if our plans are to work at all, a rather substantial air movement of key [ personnel would be in order. Insofar as we know, no realistic approach to this problem has been made. These are all problems which will require effective staff work and 'workable liaison at the EUCOM and SHAPE levels. We are thoroughly aware of the fact that .COS in Karlsruhe is at present without a staff to handle these problems.. However, they are problems which must be considered and resolved if we are to approach seriously the entire problem of Post-Outbreak-of-War-Operations. . 11. Finally, I urge that the ZIPPER F-Net program not be considered out of context. It is part and parcel of an extensive program to leave us with a producing intelligence organization immediately after the outbreak of a war in Europe. Burials; selection of potential drop areas; preparation of detailed maps, sketches of photographs of selected drop areas; selection of safe-houses; selection of agents who by their occupation would probably become not only observers but also actual penetrations agents of agencies of a Soviet occupier; a highly selective program of recruitment of possible drop agents; the evacuation plan- the base station and the entire F-Net and relation communications plans are all designed to emerge as a single plan tor the collection of information. 12. We recommend that ZIPPER be encouraged and assisted in _the,establishment of the primary Base Station in OSMOSIS; that an alternate station in the Mediterranean area be planned; that at a minimum the alternate station be packaged ready for quick installation and that, within the framework of our ,SATURN effort, . plans be made to transfer communication and operational personnel to OSMOSIS or the alternate Base Station. If and when the status of OSMOSIS within the NATO framework is clarified, the OSMOSIS base station should be reexamined to determine the desirabi/ity and feasibility of establishing a greater degree of direct American control, more consistent with the US-ZIPPER relationship. This is essentially the recommendation in Para. .5 c. above and will / we feel, ensure the most effective utilization of ZIPPER under the conditions that could be expected to exist. • 13. The Outside Base Station ts now being shipped equipment by ZIPPER. Many items, including receivers, required for the station exist in ZIPPER stocks or can be procur d locall . How- ever, suitable transmitters are not available, has in- dicated that the Hallicrafters type HT-4-0 (stocked by Commo /I D ivision) transmitter would be ideal. A sea shipment containing eight of this type is requested; priority handling is desirable. The type and quantity of this shipment indicate our intention of
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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.