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 ECRET/RELEASE -3- TO GERMANY ONLY ,3. Al]. in all the picture is no great show of success although'ZIPPER has managed a handful or two of singleton cross-border type operations. Staff-wise and operational reports-wise the handling of these operations • as well as those which didnot Come off has generally been satisfactory.' The SOP for Satellite operations was honored more in the observance than • in the breach. Generally speaking ZIPPER deserves an A for effort, and • about a C for performance. Slow this record measures up to that of others in the field, taking into consideration not only the common difficulties encountered but the speCial ones applying to ZIPPER (not the least of which is the non-affinity of the Satellite people generally to Germans and Germany), is a calculation that we here at POP oannot make. We await word of what you_ can tell us on this scoret. . • . 4. Id a subsequent peach as a logical follow-up to this report we will submit a comprehensive list of all Satellite co-workers according to V ...number, cover name (s), residence, place of work, end , operational area for the same period. 9 Attachmentes As listed above SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY SECRET REL Ger 655 Secret
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