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 P TELEASE TO GERMANY ONLY /431.4- !Y:IK 16 April 1951Chief, Foreign Division M Chief of Station, Karlsruhe . Operational • . JUPITER - Statue Report as of 20 Marah 1951 REPi MOLA4455 • 1: To give a Wear and sensible picture of JOPITER.progress through piecemeal reporting bee premed to be impospible. Time it •has teoomenecessary to choose an arbitrary-date, in this cane 20 March, and strike a balance as of that date, to cover the entire range of JUPITER progress and waoh allied Motors as budget, lessens learned, technique's observed, and the like, mi first JUPITER report, of /ate last year, closed with the remark that no mmmamentel progress reports would be prepared in the future, This cannot be avoided; however, I have attempted to break this present report into a group of annexes, each treating one distinct topic. Yon maybe able to nee it more easily in this fashion, It must be remembered that 'these reports are more orlon" hand-made, in that the data and de- *.tailermust be laborionalymined . Out of a'mountain of operational, :quiver% and administrative ceottvities which taleffbet, comprises .'4UPITER (and, more and moreOUPITER is becoming synonymous:with • the entire Sovsons militame011adtion apparatus). Mr.. PICHRE'end "' qMr, OAY are gradually eitiOR glassifYin6 this datas vivir. • and maintaining it in more accessible form) 11111ftend I have made -aelOtilin that our itatiatioil'aid operational needs viii n the, luture'be met by their estegorieaof data, Still, it has been hand siOrk so Ear. r would SuggeWthetpaftermorretpure to Washington .in. June, I sit down with thvinkiereeted party in your Om ao_VII::P07, pave en outlinefor an SOPotYpe of periodic operational statue're.:. 009ring the Somme apperitus. This could be fired beak to'-: who' aoeld then implement the requirement at reesonahle. rain. 2. In practise, the. 4640 which GAY and' I expended duringi 'March had usefisreide . effeote, 'Resides giving we the materiallor Ay end+Cf»tour report on JUPITER, it canoed OAT to shake hie data into more usefC1 aunditioni'and the -results of our work were pre. aented:by DAY at a joint AMeriaanaGerman operational (Miff briefing on if TOP SECRET SECRET/RELEASE TO GERMANY,pi\W gs-- REL Ger Secret 596
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