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This Central Intelligence Agency file, declassified in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is a September 1954 routing sheet that forwards a set of source reports. They describe a source's meetings with a contact named Richter from January to August 1954. The source passed Richter reports on émigré groups, including Polish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian ones, and was paid 200 DM a month. The legible text contains no discussion of UFO or UAP sightings.
This is a CIA page from the Michael Korzhan file, volume 2. It was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The page carries a date stamp of December 13, 1956, but the rest of the scanned text is badly garbled and mostly unreadable. It seems to mention UFOs, but the text as extracted does not support any clear subject, finding or conclusion.
This undated, secret Central Intelligence Agency debriefing memo to the Chief, CSOB, records the life story of Clevland O. Hahn, a Latvian born in 1919. It covers his family and pre-war life, the Soviet and German occupations of Latvia, his anti-communist resistance group at the Jelgava Academy, and his post-war activities in Sweden. An appendix gives numbered biographic notes on Latvian emigres, intelligence figures and police officers. The document contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency file from the Ludtke, Wilhelm Karl special collection, declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains a routing sheet and a dispatch from the Chief of Base, Berlin to Chief, EE dated October 1955. The dispatch records an oral contract under the BECRIPPLE project engaging an individual from 1 October 1955 at a monthly salary of 500 DM West, with expenses, per diem limits and termination terms. It does not concern UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains a routing and record sheet and a dispatch from the Chief of the EE division to the Chief of Station, Germany, with a copy for Berlin, dated 6 December 1955. The poorly legible dispatch covers the handling of a source, including whether he should take a test, repayment of missing funds, and a termination gratuity. It does not discuss any UFO incident.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is an Allied Military Government application form, in English and German, for a temporary travel document or exit permit, dated 1950. The applicant is Jon Margarit, who was born in Romania and is listed as Rumanian at birth. The form gives his father's and mother's names and nationalities and lists his occupation as a free-lance journalist. It was declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It contains no UFO or UAP content.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency classified cable dated 25 November 1952, sent from the Director of CIA to a field station. It sits in the agency's file on Boris Ragula. The garbled text sets out operational guidance: headquarters approval requirements, the need for plans for operations affecting third countries, and a reference to penetration targets of greatest interest. It was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It contains no UFO material.
This is a CIA pouch dispatch dated 24 March 1954, sent by the Chief of Mission in Frankfurt to the Chief of BOB. It was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and filed with the Arno Scholz records. It lists special connections that the Mission Project Review Board reviewed and approved for continued contact because they cost little in time and money. Some approvals carry qualifications, including a warning to use caution given the connections' official ties. The dispatch does not discuss UFOs.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 February 1952, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act from the Sergie Shebalin file. It is a poor-quality scan. It says the subject has found work in Vienna and has accepted the cover arrangement suggested in a referenced message, and that documentation will be secured as soon as possible. A note for Frankfurt only mentions documents needed to provide the cover. The text says nothing about unidentified aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency incoming classified message dated 24 March 1953 comes from a file on Sergie Shebalin. It was declassified and released in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It is a brief routine cable in which a source with the cryptonym GRALLSPICE 1 asks that his wife receive 655 DM as an allotment for March. The document has no connection to UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
This is a corrected copy of a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 5 May 1952, declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The OCR text is badly garbled. It relays source information that Yaroslav Stetsko was allegedly trying to enter the United States from Canada. It asks whether headquarters has been able to alert Canadian authorities, and it recommends that any pseudonym or false papers be checked if Stetsko arrives in the U.S.
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 25 February 1971, records name trace results on Yaroslav Stetsko, identified as president of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and chairman of the European Freedom Council, and a former prime minister of Ukraine. It lists his aliases, birth details and wife, reports no traces on one paragraph of the query, and cites earlier agency documents from 1958 and 1960. It does not concern UFOs.
This is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from a Chief of Station to the Chief, Foreign Division, released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It assesses the operational potential of the Hungarian emigre group led by Andras Zako, including its KOPJAS and MHBK elements. It reports that the group passed off refugee debriefings as agent reports, and it concludes that the group is politically worthless and unfit to serve as an intelligence or resistance network. The "UFO" in the text is an OCR error, not a reference to aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 21 November 1960, was released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. It reports a source's trip to Salzburg about a group of Hungarians linked to Andreas Zako. The source said the group's headquarters is in Innsbruck and that the French seem to have cut Zako's budget. It also says the group was selling information to any buyer and working in the black market. In this document "UFO" is the name of the Hungarian group and has nothing to do with unidentified flying objects.
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.
This declassified CIA dispatch, dated 16 April 1953 and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, sets out plans for closing the KIBITZ-15 agent net in Germany. It lists the agents to be debriefed in Stuttgart, Würzburg, the Pfalz and Cologne. It also gives the debriefing questions, the quit claims agents must sign pledging silence, the return of equipment and DM 100 goodwill bonuses. It proposes a special settlement for KIBITZ-150 and contains no UFO material.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency classified cable dated 6 February 1957, sent from the Director to Munich and filed in the QKACTIVE project file. It asks the Munich station to identify and evaluate the sources behind a UFO memo numbered 5-57 and dated 29 January. It also asks Munich to say whether the memo was distributed anywhere else. The document was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency classified cable dated 22 July 1957, filed under QKACTIVE. It was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The message says headquarters received an overt request to hire a person and that records show the person is still on another party's payroll. It asks whether the request has been approved. Nothing in the text concerns unidentified flying objects, even though the routing line contains the word UFO.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency incoming classified message dated 24 February 1949, sent from Heidelberg to Policy Coordination in Washington and filed in the QKDEMON project outline. The cable asks for authorization to pay a lieutenant money owed to him for the period from 25 November 1948 to 25 February 1949. It was declassified and released in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The text contains nothing about UFO sightings.
This Central Intelligence Agency document is an undated secret memorandum about a travel advance. It was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 2007. It records a travel advance of about $48.39 made to Willard M. Staley in London, England, and lists the ways the advance could be repaid or accounted for. It also says that any future advances must be accounted for to the Chief of Station. The distribution line includes a garbled entry that reads "UFO", but the memo contains no UFO content.
This CIA document, from the OBOPUS BGFIEND operations files, is a SECRET covering memo and attached proposal written ahead of a meeting with a cryptonymed partner service. It argues that the Albanian exile National Committee is too narrowly based. It proposes broadening the committee to include other exile parties, and it warns that subsidies would be withdrawn from resisting factions. It also raises possible liaison with Yugoslav-dominated refugee groups. The document does not concern UFOs. It was declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 2007.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 4 December 1953 and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, forwards a letter from Mrs. Page Johnson asking about the wife and son of a cryptonymed individual living in Alexandria, Egypt, along with the reply. The dispatch discusses a customs bill of about 9,400 Egyptian pounds, a reported hostile campaign by Uruguayan Communists, and whether the family could obtain exit visas. It contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, from the OBOPUS BGFIEND operations volume and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains a secret dispatch dated 14 December 1953. It forwards a copy of a letter to a Mr. Yarborough, who is being held in Egypt over customs charges. The letter asks about rumors of a Communist campaign against him and damage to his Long Island estate. It suggests that his wife and son leave Egypt and asks for details of his negotiations over roughly 10,000 L.E. in duties. It does not discuss UFOs.
This declassified Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from the Chief of Base, Munich, dated 15 April 1954, transmits a peripheral report to Headquarters under separate cover. The cover sheet labels the material UFOs and describes the report as an advance copy prepared by a source and possibly of interest to Headquarters. The report itself is not included in the text. The release stamp shows it was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This CIA file, whose date is not given, contains a secret debriefing report on a 1960 tourist trip to the Soviet Union. The traveler, a Library of Congress employee, went to Moscow, Kiev and Lviv in September 1960. The report includes an operational diary, biographical information on contacts, material on intelligence requirements, and transcripts of Ukrainian Radio interviews. The briefer's comments call the operation successful and say the traveler detected Soviet surveillance. The document does not discuss UFOs.
This is a secret CIA dispatch dated 24 January 1961, sent from the Chief of Base, Frankfurt, to the Chief, SR and COS Germany under the AERODYNAMIC project. It plans how the agent AECASSOWARY 29 should operate at 1961 international trade fairs, including those in Vienna and Basel. The plan concentrates on fairs where Soviet Ukrainians would have pavilions, using collaborators to make first contacts and keeping the agent in the background for recruitment. It was declassified in 2007 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and filed under the AERODYNAMIC project, replies to two April 1966 references about Ivan Kolaska of Toronto. It gives Headquarters information from source AECASSOWARY/2 on Ivan Yaremko, a Chicago lawyer who traveled to Soviet Ukraine and suggested Kolaska was probably a Soviet agent. It weighs whether Kolaska's KGB arrest in Kiev was genuine or staged and asks the Canadian service to protect the sources. It does not discuss UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch from the Chief of Base, Munich, dated 2 May 1960, forwards reports by a source called AEDOGMA-1 on the October 1959 cyanide death of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stefan Bandera. The attachments review five theories: poisoning by German intelligence, by Soviet agents, by Myron Matviyeyko, by Mykola Lebed, or suicide. They also describe interviews with Munich criminal police officer Adrian Fuchs, who said the police were convinced Bandera committed suicide. The document has no UFO content.
This CIA file comes from the Klaus Barbie volume of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act release. It contains classified Central Intelligence Group cable traffic sent from Frankfurt to Special Operations. The messages say the French got no satisfaction on their request for the subject's extradition. They also cover the subject's earlier arrest on suspicion of subversive activities, later work for CIC subregions as an informant considered reliable, and investigations into possible links with a German nationalist subversive group. A second message corrects wording in an earlier report.
This is a CIA name trace reply released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, part of the file on Friedrich Berger. It answers a May 1957 request from the Munich base and is addressed to the Chief of Base, Munich, with copies to the Chief of Station, Germany, and the Chief of Base, Berlin. It reports what headquarters files show on several identities. For one it found no probable traces, for another it needs more biographic data, and for others it points to existing dossiers and interrogation reports.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency incoming classified cable from Berlin to Special Operations in Washington, marked SECRET, part of the agency's Bolschwing file. It proposes having the CIC told that the Bolschwing file cannot be located, which would stall CIC action for the required 90 days. It also says no action was taken in Berlin on a related Pullach message. The cable was declassified and released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This is a classified cable from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to the SR representative in Salzburg, dated 1 December 1953 and filed in the CIA's Otto von Bolschwing records. Replying to Salzburg message 1994 under the heading INTEL/GROSSBAHN, it says no action is possible until security checks are finished, which are expected by 4 December. The CIA declassified and released the cable under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This is a secret CIA dispatch dated 31 August 1970. It concerns Prince Junio Valerio Borghese and the National Front. It forwards a memo of a conversation between Charles R. Stout and Borghese, held at the Embassy on 26 January 1970. It also attaches a document Borghese gave to Stout, which was itself a copy of a document that unknown persons had given to General Walters. The release came under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The text contains nothing about UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency release contains an FBI transmittal letter signed by J. Edgar Hoover, forwarded to the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans, along with a November 1969 FBI memorandum about Martin Bormann. An informant of unknown reliability claimed Bormann was living in a compound near Asuncion, Paraguay, that had underground laboratories, and gave his opinion that it could be a base for flying saucers. A second source described the informant as a known liar with a criminal record.
This CIA file, declassified and released in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains German-language interrogation records of Hans Clemens, held in custody in Koblenz in 1962. In the transcripts, Clemens answers questions about surveillance operations, contacts, and cases he handled for the BND while reporting to Soviet handlers. The records also cover a uranium concentrate sample passed to the BND and decoded radio messages from his Soviet controllers. It does not concern UFOs.
This is a CIA official dispatch dated 23 April 1956, sent from the Chief of the EE division to the Chief of Station and to the Bonn, Berlin and Munich bases. It was released in 2001 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The heavily garbled text answers a request for services for an organization. It says a brochure and program material are being forwarded under separate cover and suggests working with a local representative. Here "UFO" appears only in the routing line, and nothing in the text concerns aerial phenomena.
This is a short, undated CIA dispatch cover sheet classified Secret, filed in Volume 5 of the Reinhard Gehlen collection. It says a personal letter to UTILITY from a sender whose name is redacted is being sent separately by true name pouch, and it asks the recipient to deliver the letter to UTILITY. The sheet lists the attachment and gives distribution to COB/H and COB/G. It does not mention UFOs or any aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 5 October 1971 and released in 2005 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is filed in the agency's Reinhard Gehlen collection. Its subject is Gehlen's memoirs, and it forwards recent newspaper articles on publication arrangements for the U.S. rights to Gehlen's book. The attachment went to the base and station chiefs. The dispatch has nothing to do with unidentified flying objects.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, gathers biographical index cards on Albanian Communist leader Enver Hoxha. The entries cover the years 1943 to 1954. They record his roles as Prime Minister, Commander in Chief and party Secretary-General, his trips to Moscow and his relations with Tito and Yugoslavia. They also note rumored rifts with Mehmet Shehu and Tuk Jakova, the 1951 Tirana bombing, and his giving up the premiership in July 1954. The file contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, is an undated interrogation report on Hans Joachim Leyer, a Danzig police and Gestapo official. It traces his career from shipping work to Kriminalkommissar and SS rank, and his 1945 role running an Amt VI Auffangstelle in Danzig for returning Kommandos. It covers his evacuation to Schwerin, the RSHA setup there, his custody, and appendices describing RSHA personnel. It contains nothing about UFOs.
This undated Central Intelligence Agency memorandum was sent to the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in reply to a request for derogatory information on Nicolae Malaxa, a Romanian industrialist. It reviews certified Romanian records supplied in 1949 on Malaxa's behalf. It covers claims that he collaborated with Germany, his links to the Iron Guard and his arrest after the 1941 revolt, and compensation arranged by the Communist-dominated government. It also reports his continued financial support of exile groups. The document contains no UFO material.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 August 1985 and sent to Washington. It forwards news clippings and magazine articles on Josef Mengele, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The attachments include an Argentine magazine report on claims that Mengele lived in La Banda, Santiago del Estero, as Adolfo Gualterio Ascher, along with an interview with the judge investigating those claims. They also include a newspaper article on Mengele's protection in Paraguay and on past efforts to extradite him. The file has no UFO content.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, dated 20 May 1953, went from the Chief of Base in Berlin to the Chief of Mission in Frankfurt. It concerns the LOCASSOCK project and Helmut Ernst Julius Ohlbrecht. It quotes two earlier reports saying Ohlbrecht was suggested to Dr. Otto John to head a special BFV office, and that he was also working as a ZIPPER agent. The dispatch calls the security implications extremely risky and asks for comments. It was declassified in 2005 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
This undated Central Intelligence Agency cable, headquarters message DIR 19374, concerns a person named Ostrovsky and comes from the CIA's records on Radislaw Ostrowsky. Headquarters suggests he visit the United States soon, because the current chief of station is due to rotate out. The cable judges Ostrovsky at least opportunistic. As a basis for any deal, it proposes full control of his operation and agents or complete security clearance of his staff, and it asks for an assessment of his cooperation, including from the British. The text is a poor OCR scan.
This Central Intelligence Agency dispatch dated 16 June 1954, declassified in 2006 under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, forwards two informant reports on Czech emigre affairs from Milosch Svoboda of General Prchala's Czech National Committee. They cover Prchala's refusal to join the ABN, a claim that Vladimir Pekelsky is paid DM 5,000 monthly by a German intelligence agency, the disappearance of Jaroslav Novak, and exile leadership disputes. The document contains no UFO material.
This is a detailed interrogation report prepared in July 1945 by SCI Unit A of the Office of Strategic Services in Salzburg, Austria. The CIA later released it under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Its subject is Johann Sanitzer of the Vienna Gestapo, arrested on 7 June 1945. The report records his biography and police career and describes the radio deception games (Funkspiele) he ran with captured Soviet NKVD and Comintern agents. It also covers arrests he made after the 20 July plot. It has no UFO content.
This is a CIA file copy from the Waldemar Seebode file, a dispatch sent by the Chief of Base, Hamburg in September 1959. It forwards a Memorandum of Oral Agreement engaging a subject as an independent contractor under a cryptonymed project. The attachment says the oral contract took effect on 1 March 1959 and pays a monthly salary in Deutsche marks. It also covers security approval and operational expenses, and notes that no provisions exist for death or disability. The document contains no UFO material.
This is a partly legible Central Intelligence Agency classified cable, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and filed in the Waldemar Seebode records. It is dated 25 August 1970 and sent to the Director. It answers earlier Director cables and describes plans to send cables on 2 September. It also mentions arranging alias documentation as a medium-level KPD/ML leader if needed and making a slight change to a suggested text. The cable has no UFO content.
This undated Central Intelligence Agency cover dispatch, a secret base communication from the CIA Nazi war crimes special collection file on Adolf Slavik, forwards a report confirming a Dutch Gelderlander newspaper article of 8 October 1953 about the Social Movement in Austria. Because the files held no traces on Hans Lorenz, the report and article are also being sent to Vienna, and both Headquarters and Vienna are asked for comments. The dispatch thanks Vienna for obtaining a copy of "Der Aufbruch". It contains no UFO material.
This CIA dispatch dated 6 December 1965, released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, relays follow-up information from the source CASTROP. It concerns Police Officer School students from Berlin/Charlottenburg and Fuerstenberg/Mecklenburg who served in the SIPO and SD Operational Group under von Woyrsch in Poland in September 1939. It lists detachment members, including Heinrich Spiegelhauer, and asks the Berlin Document Center to trace their assignments for war crimes investigations. It also notes Munich file traces on several individuals.