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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I 11 Secret REL Ger sli--(c.-..:Eas SECRET/RELEASE -2- . TO GERMANY. ONLY 2. To assist you in perusing the attachmente the following remarks are submitted: a. While giving due emphasis to the difficulties encountered by way of intensified Satellite security measures (documentation, border restrictions) and psychological measures of control ZIPPER makes sure to emphasize its difficulties , re access to potential agents. The refer- ence is of course to ZIPPER's non-preferred position in the initial handling and interrogation of refugees in Western sectors, a rather sore subject with the organization. We have attempted to assuage their feelings by pointing out that this so-called "oream of the refugee crop" has not produced any appreciable number of higher-types. • b. It is our impression that while ZIPPER is able to put its fin- ger on the technical difficulties encountered it is not exerting all of its beet efforts to overcoming them (apart from documentation work of cour;;) riFeaaly with respect to border restrictions on the Bavarian- CSR border. Specifically we tee]., that ZIPPER has not devoted sufficient special effort to finding new and improved means of slipping agents into CSR. We feel that all too often the agencies. in the field are left on an individual agent-case officer basis to figure out their specific means of entry. We will attempt to encourage ZIPPER to do some opera- - tional-aids type of research by its headquarters 331 staff (or others qualified for it) into ways and means of physically breaking thru the zonal barriers into CSR. c, Of the 47 agents listed in paragraph 1 of AttachamaltB none were above the low-level category. d. Of the 232 reports listed as being on Hungary including Soviet Zone Austria (para. 2 Attachment B) leas than 10% emanated from inside Hungary. e. B-reports listed as going to 25.50 staff on operational matters have been reported in normal operational correspondence. 1. Look for channel -1-6-thi-Siiitelliteshme)7,13-priinarily to e sparked by 50 F about whose activities in this field Jenricg.will. soon report. g, On reading the attached, ZIFFER's current "Drang nach Osten", • 2,..mottrat_lu.gualanua,becomes quite evident. Rout assured that FOB is following up with a critical eye all such declarations and intentions by ZIPPER toward intensification of Vienna operations. The plans for the build-up of the central MK in Vienna as well as the plans for CM, GV O and UM operations in that city are being closely watched and con- trolled by us. We will exert every effort to insure that ZIPPER does not run over the brim of its small Viennese pot. SECRET/RELEA6E5aRET TO GERMANY 0 4 REL Ger Secret 654
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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.