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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RE-1:-Ger SECaL SECRET/RELEASE - 3 - TO GERMANY ONLY vas subdivided into two restricted areas; one a dead zone which was completely evacuated and whicknobOdy is permitted to enter, the other a zone whose inhabitants were politically screened and one which may only be entered with special permits. (b) Frontier CSRADR; The Western part of the CSR/DDR frontier almost as far as Komotau is a restricted area due.to . its being a uranium mining district. The patrol measures in connection with the very in- tensive observation of large contingents of convicts (slave labor in mines) are so stringent that in that area no border- crossing operations can be planned. There were a few border- crossing points near .Zinnuald, in the area of the Tetschner mountain, in the "Boehmisch-Saechsische Schweiz", in the Rumburg corner and in the Area of the Lausitz mountains near Zittau. The possibilities in these . places were used, as far as possible, by ferrying-tYpe operations planned from Berlin. However, with the security situation in the DIA becoming more and more criti- cal and with the increasing patrol activities since the middle of 1952 along the above-mentioned border, opportunities here also are being reduced. Although there are barbed-wire en- tanglements and RR-track obstacles only in parts of this border section, it is now a closely guarded area'where the patrols fire at intruders without previous warning. (c) Frontier CSR/Austria: Knowing that a secure protection against "enemy" agents will only be possible when the whole border of the country is her- metically closed, Czechoslovakia has now started to fortify the MR/Austria border in the same manner as the border of the Federal Republic. In the second hnlf of 1952 the technical fortification of the Austrian frontier made fast progress due to increased working crews. The spots not yet quite closed .by winter 1952/53 will be wired and equipped with security in- stallations by Spring 53. There will be up-ended railroad tracks, trip wires with signal releases, increased patrols etc. There will also be the double frontier ame in which complete villages situated in the direct vicinity of the frontier will have to be evacuated. • (2). Technical-nsycholoeical difficulties: - The technical security of the frontier achieved by the measures as indicated above has also strong psychological consequences. The border population on the Czech side is hardly interested in the obstacles, the hermetical sealing-off against the outside world is no surprise and has to be accepted as long as the individual is not directly concerned. •he effects of the restricted Zone II in which peoplelare still living, but only under restricted Conditions, are different. Their freedom to nova about is limited, living in this SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY REL Ger Secret 658
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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.