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.
Secret . REL Ger VIA: AIR 'NO MLA- (SPECIFY AIR OR SEA POUCH) F ,SECRET CONTROL" US OFt196a/PrrolV TO : Chief, EE DATE 14.Apri1 1952 FROM : chief of Station, Frankfurt__ SUBJECT: GENERAL— Operational SPECIFIC— Definitions in the CI Field. SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY REF: (1) 43QW-12913, (2) M3QA-2554. 1. We submit that theill111111 definitions are not adequate for our purposes. There are basically two problems involved: one of terminology and one of the delimitation of activities between ZIPPER and the BfV in the "CI" (US termi- nology) field. 2. Terminology. Recent discussions with ZIPPER concerning the "modern F-Dienst" (a proposal which would amalgamate counter-espionage (CE) and political intelli- gence into an inseparable definitional entity--rejected immediately by POB and COS) have convinced us of the value, indeed of the neoessity for adhering to the classical definitions in the Cl field. a. We agree with par. 2, ref. (1), in.rejecting, as confusing indeed, the use of "CE" in the dual role of whole and part both. C., ver - sion (MGKA-35039) of the definitions sets up an "intelligence" organiza- tion, which collects "information" from overt sources and highly secret "intelli- gence" (i.e. information) that can be obtained only by clandestine operations, i.e. "espionage". Against this intelligence organization is ranged the "counter- espionage" machine, according to C: ;2 (We believe that the correct label for the maChine countering the intelligence organization should be "counter- . intelligence" (CI)). This countering machine had defensive functions71—riWOur- ity" (internal & civil) and aggressive functions of (pure) counter-espionage. POB Comment: We believe that CE should be narrowly construed as a part of CI and not used as a term denoting both pure CE and pure CB plus security. b. ZIPPER uses the old Abwehr numerical designation "III" to denote overall counter-intelligence; as yet ZIPPER has been unable to come up with a fitting term in words. The ,best word probably wnuld be "Abwehr", but it has acquired an entirely different meaning. At any rate, ZIPPER includes as subdivisions of "III": . (1) "Sicherheit": internal security (formeilly bearing Abwehr designa- tions III-H, III-M and III-N) and counter-Sabotage (formerly III-Wi) and Dist: - EE 2 - COS 1 - SRFG 2 - POE "muma 51-28 .AMAL I 919 SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY „SECRET Ct A'gROL" US ()FFICIALS ONLY CLASSIFICATION 18 COPT REL Ger 649 Secret
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