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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I I 1 Secret REL Ger (-11 :1"j SEdRET/RELEASE Survey Report of ZIPPER I 's Satellite Operations foTglegrFE1\12 Y ONLY Overall Organizational and nersonnel measures: 1.) GV B V-12 641 was attached as co-worker to staff member in charge of strategical intelligence. For activation of strategical intelligence 11-1198 was attached to leader UV 3200. 2.) GV C Herr T(04 of 50 was attached to GV C GV leader. as assistant deputy of the GV C is presently co-ordinating its staff under command aspects platining to form a command section which will comprise: operations, reports, training, IC and radio. 1 NE Vienna of CV C is to be completed as soon as possible for intensi- fication of intelligence against Poland, CSR and Sovzone forces. BV 7 will transfer its main concentration of intelligence against Poland to Berlin. The possibilities in the direction of Poland in Vienna will be used by committing V-11 730 and V-11 117 in Vienna. In addition an improvement- of Forscher- and interrogator -activities is planned by organizational and personnel measures which are not yet determined in detail. 3.) PE PE has discharged V-21 309 as operations leader in Berlin as being not quite suited for this position, committing instead V-12 805 who had proved himself as an IS leader at CV B as operation leader Berlin. V-21 309 is now working as interrogator at PE. Operational Command Munich was newly established with V-4161 as chief. The latter is a man who knows Poland well from his long experiences as merchant and CI-officer and who recently served as 50/F. The new oper- ational command has the task of carrying commitments to Poland which previously PE himself had been directing in addition to his extensive function. Opprational Command 1721 received as its one and only commitment; Naval intelligence. SECRET/RELEASE - Attachment - H /4 TO GERMANY 011111•■ , , REL Ger Secret 682
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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.