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Record Group 263: Records of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1894 – 2002
This series consists of reports,
memorandums, messages, summaries, correspondence, dispatches, translations,
contracts, receipts, biographies, financial records, itineraries,
organizational charts, lists, minutes, transcripts, tables, maps,
administrative records, legal documents, chronologies, and other records.
Most of the records relate to Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) projects aimed at overthrowing or weakening Communist
governments in Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War.
The CIA planned to accomplish this through
combinations of military, paramilitary, economic, and psychological warfare
operations.
Project files provide information about
the objectives, methods, personnel, training, costs, reviews, reassessments,
renewals, and terminations of the projects; assessments of the personnel,
policies, and interactions of émigré or partisan groups supporting the
projects, and details about CIA creation, support, and liquidation of those
groups; information about the CIA’s interactions with other U.S. agencies and
the intelligence organizations of other countries; descriptions of then-current
events and conditions in the target countries; and historical background on the
targeted countries and predecessor projects.
Many of these projects utilized people in
one, or both, of two categories: Axis Personnel accused of committing war
crimes, or of belonging to criminal organizations, during World War II; and
former Axis personnel who were used by the U.S. or West Germany as intelligence
sources during the Cold War.
The projects also utilized people who were
never accused of war crimes or of belonging to criminal organizations, but who
may have been associated with war crimes as victims, witnesses, investigators,
sources, or officials.
Projects targeting the U.S.S.R., or Soviet
targets in other countries, include
AEACRE, which established a base in the
U.S. in support of operations against the Soviet Union;
AEDEPOT, in which the CIA coordinated with
the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop personnel to be used as part of an
unconventional warfare program if hostilities seemed imminent;
AESAURUS, which worked with the National
Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS);
AEVIRGIL, which worked with the Central
Association of Political Émigrés from the U.S.S.R. (a.k.a. the Central
Association of Post-War Émigrés or TsOPE);
CATOMIC, which was directed at Soviet
targets in West Germany;
KIBITZ and PASTIME, which developed
networks of stay-behind agents in Berlin and other parts of West Germany in the
event of a Soviet invasion;
LCPROWL, which worked with two
organizations for operations in Germany in case of war: the League of German
Youth (Bund Deutscher Jugend or BDJ) and an offshoot of the BDJ, known as the
Apparat;
QKACTIVE, which worked with the American
Committee for the Liberation of the People of the U.S.S.R.;
the psychological warfare project QKDEMON;
and the research project TPMURILLO.
Other projects in this series include
AECOB, which targeted the government of
Latvia;
AEQUOR, which, working mainly with the
Byelorussian National Council, targeted the government of Byelorussia;
AERODYNAMIC, which worked with the Foreign
Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council against the
government of the Ukraine;
DTLINEN, which worked with the Fighting
Group Against Inhumanity (Kampfgruppe gegen Umenschlichkeit or KgU) against the
government of East Germany;
DTPILLAR, which opposed the spread of
communism in Asia by working with the Asia Foundation (a.k.a. the Committee for
Free Asia);
GRCROOND/GRREPAIR, which sought to develop
and strengthen Austrian paramilitary operations in case of war;
LCCASSOCK, which targeted East German
officials and policies;
OBOPUS/BGFIEND, which worked with the
British, exiled Albanian monarch King Zog I, and the National Committee for
Free Albania against the government of Albania;
QRPLUMB, which superseded AERODYNAMIC;
SYMPHONY, which sought counterintelligence
information from Jewish refugees who, aided by the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
escaped from the Soviet Bloc to Austria; and
UJDROLLERY, which covered
counterintelligence and counterespionage projects run by West German
intelligence chief Reinhard Gehlen.
Other topics include the personnel and
policies of Nazi intelligence services; the role of the CIA in the formation of
the West German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND); the Hungarian
émigré organization MHBK (Magyar Harcosok Bajtársi Közössége or Hungarian
Warriors Comradeship Association); and assessments of the damage done to U.S.
and West German intelligence efforts by double agent Heinz Felfe.
The series also includes records relating
to Japanese intelligence operations during World War II.
