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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.

  • p. 6 …Thl_ es however, never developed beyond the paper stem, and at presemt Jee ps to be…
  • p. 57 …They have never accepted the fact that construction of Wignal plans and the training of ZIPPER…
  • p. 73 …in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany). Never- theless it will be necessary in the future…
  • p. 129 …he was nothing but a civil servant, never an active party map and simply did vSit…
  • p. 133 …on the part of the affected organization never.1 theless, 412 view of the exacting price…
  • p. 146 …as a flap, the ERHARDT flap would never have arisen, since ERHARlYf would then have been…
  • p. 180 …UTILITY has never shown any intereat in resolving this problem. lie does not believe that the…
  • p. 181 …Ma have never been able to fathom what subtle purposes UTILITY may have in mind by…
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directly sent off to countries overseas; others are recruited for IS-
cooperation by Allied IS authorities. Only worthless individuals or
peaple having nothing to offer on the IS sector are-sent to the refugee
camps. It is our experience that only very few co-workers for the
German IS can be selected from this contingent. In the same manner the
mast essentiaa contingent on the interrogation sector is lost.
3.) It is to be expected that in 1953 the IS situation will be even more
critical. In view of this fact 50/S has initiated the various measures
as indicated in further attachments (Transfer of strategical work to
Vienna and Berlin, finding legal Channels to the Satellite states,
using the nossibilities in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany). Never-
theless it will be necessary in the future also to get a foothold in
the Satellites. In view of the greater risk agents and ferrying agepts
are running, the amounts to be invested will probably have to be much
higher than they are today.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 218 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.