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 c". • • SECRET/RELEASE. - - TO GERMANY ONLY -standable in view of the Polish character which although easily in- flammable for a new idea is also inclined to drop this idea immediately when difficulties appear. For the past 8 years there has been hope for an intervention by the Western powers; although the Soviet pro-. line of hatred always talks about the "imperialistic" war of the Western powers against the Soviet Union and the Satellites, the hope for an early liberation is diminishing. The strong decline of the economic situation, especially the scarcity of foodstuff and the rising prides strongly oppress the population. The struggle for their daily bread keens the people busy from morning till night; there is . hardly any room or time for other theughts. There 'is also less read- iness for intelligence co-operation due to this poor economic situation. Furthermore the efforts of the secret police to establish a. spy-system after the Soviet pattern makes fast progress. Confidence in other persons even in one's own family or among colleagues is shaken. What is more, repeated appeals to all parts of the population are being issued warning them against su pporting the espionage of the West in any way. The rigged spy-trials also intimidate the ponulation. The last trial in Cracow in which, for rather scanty reasons, 7 members of the Polish Roman Catholic hierachy were sentenced, 3 of them even to death, will also have the effect of a strong shock on the people. (4) Recruiting of agents: The strictness of the border controls allow flight from Poland to the Wept only on the part of young and strong persons. The majority of refugees arriving in the West are young men trying to get away from military service. Back in Poland, on the other hand, they have 'no connections to interesting IS circles so that only in a few cases is employment of such persons worthwhile. Persons having left Poland before 1950 cannot be used either as, in the meantime, conditions have changed in Poland to such an extent that they cannot move about with- out attracting attention. (B) In the CSR also, technical and psychological measures of all kinds make all illegal border croasings extremely risky. The CSR blocks itself off particularly against the' German Federal Republic. (1) TechQical difficultles: (a) Frontier CSIVaarman Federal Republic: Barbed-wire entanglements began in 1951 were completed in the course of 1952; all gaps still existing in the difficult area of the Bohemian forest were closed. The barbed-wire entangle- ments were effectively improved by up-ended railroad tracks, electric alarm systems, the mining of favorable crossing points, cutting straight narrow paths in dense parts of the woods, in- creasing frontier guards and the number Of watchdogs, equipping of watchtowers with telephones. The frontier district itself SECRETSECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY 657 REL Ger 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.