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 r‹. SECRET/RELEASE - 4 - TO GERMANY ONLY zone is subject to a special stamp 'in the identity card or a special permit, registration regulations are extremely strict and spying by party officials intensive, Everything 1$ done to in- timidate the people living in that zone and to exert psychologicdl pressure on them With the aim of punishing the smallest offence with the loss of freedom or life. The people living in that zone will give no support to transient agents, on the contrary they will do everything to denounce agents to the authorities merely because' of the fact that such knowledge if unreported makes them liable to severest punishment. (3) Psychelogical difficulties: There are also the purely psychological difficulties which are the result of artificially created totalitarian atmosphere in the country. This atmosphere is to alarge extent determinedby the regular rigged spy-trials. It is also an atmosphere of fear, the feeling in each and every inhabitant of being spied upon and observed by unknown third parties everywhere. An atmosphere such as this in which every aspect of private life is under constant control and in which nothing exists which is unknown to the state, is 'extremely unfavor- able and unsuitable for conspiratorial work directed against the regime. Furthermore there are recurrent "disappearances"; exponents of essential enterprises who might co-operate or who are almost re- cruited or already working for us will disappear usually after some weeks, sometimes after a few months or in the best of cases after a year or so with the result that their unexplainable disappearance makes the feeling of insecurity even greater. A typical example of such a constellation is the SLANSKY-CLEMENTIS trial which by one stroke did not only remove several men undoubtedly conspiring with the West but also determined the liquidation of many men who did not appear to be 100% safe to the regime, by the announcement of several additional connected trials. • 0) Intelligence against Hungary and the Balkans encounters the same diffi- culties as the work against Poland and CSR. Intelligence against the Balkan states is even , more difficult as they are not direct neighbours of the Federal Republic or Austria which means that agents have to be ferried via Hungary or Yugoslavia as well as necessitating the maintenance of complicated courier channels. 2.) Difficulties in the Federal area, Berlin and Austria * Another obstacle to the recruiting of co-workers for strategical intelligence is the fact that besides the German IS nUmerous IS or Iluttgag oLthe Allies are working in the same area and W e same types. This makes the basis for work rather small as it is not easy under the present difficult conditions to find competent and courageous men for strategical work. Be- sides, all non-Germans crossing the border from the Satellites to the Federal Republic must be handed over to the nearest Allied authority within a few hours. If they are interesting or competent they hardly get into any con- tact with German authorities. Many of them are interrogated and then SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY REL Ger 659 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.