• Document No ---·------------------------- e l - lass j LJ - fd · ·r-- - ·v c -1 ·r ··•-- --------· --· --______ _ ' • r 1 17 A0 1 l Q_ ·--- · Y f-1 _ - - ---- 11cti1 1 1 s· T 1980 Date ------------------ iJ i ---- -' t 7J S C st l J •JIA Chief PP SUBJECT Comr ri ssion for the Guidance ai--id Review of 0clcctc- l PP Activities in dest l3erli 11 IBFEiL£NCE Inquir- 1 cf JC t 2J Uovc r b - 55 ccincernine FMN h690 DJ 29945 12 Hovember lSSS 1 GeneraJ Situation Hegotiations are presently in r rogress between CIA's German Station the Gerr·nn Feder-al Ucpublic represented by the Kaisc rEinistry and th G c3t I 3 din Senate aincc ct the formation of a joL'1t 11 commission 11 which would cnerally guide m 1 revieif the o e -ational activitjes of five lest Berli 11 resist3 nce md anti-Cor-rrr unist prope Q onda r roups the CIA qJOnsorship of which has been previously clisclcsed to the lcderal and Berl l1 goverDJT1 ents The overt German eler ient cf this commission CI A would be a silent member uould also fllilction as a buff er between CIA md the German public a 11d press Sane such arrangement has become necessa q because West Gern an pressure on ruid n ttacl s against these groups generally and against one of these groups in particular has reached 2 point E 1 1nn eri -1 their continued eristcnce The 11 Ka mpfcruppe gege n Unmenschlichkeit KcU Fighting Group Ae dnst IillltU la rd ty subsidized under Project DTLINEN has carried· the brunt of the pressure and the commission would initially con-· centrate on this group The other groups concerned are 1 Untersuchungsausschuss Freiheitlicher Juristen UFJ - Investigation Committee of Free Jurists Project CADROI'r 2 TAP NTEL magazine Project LCPAGAN 3 Verband Politischer Ostfluechtlinge VPO - Leaeue of Political Refugees from East Germany C I and l1 llerbebuero Kramer Kramer Public Relations Office Project LCCASSOCK 2 Background a The KgU and four other PP projects in Jest Berlin previously were revealed to the West German and the West Berlin governments as CIA sponsored activities In connection with the acknowledgment of CIA sponsorship the stater 1ent was also made to the German governmental authorities that it was CIA's intent that these projects ·rould eventually become joint German U S operations or that they would be turned over completely to Gcrr an m2J1agement J I I _ _ _ J · -- - 0 '-- ·'-- ti· Q''l r ·ttp•·•»y'- n-i 'c•· cl nt di 'CY'Crl·i - r-p -in c •111 - _ l t-' U1- 1 -- -L - C - -1··· 0 •' 1· c - f· c u_ _ V''l' i Ju 0 cf it 1ot corq lctely cicctroying thc-Ki U I J I - of ths Co i111mist p1·css 2 r1d Sl lu1 tri2 l cl1 1rcus 1rc te Gltbscq_i Lentl T pic cr 11p b r C' J t J ir - ic d J Gr- J C l l i 1 Liicu tiu1-i 1 1 ic 1 c l-1 i _ ed tl1at tl1c U S was inisu il1c l cui scd i1ur' n it -J 'i J _ Ol 8 lliZ8 tio11 fo - l iOYl tGe 2J 1 d sabot0 c L ld tf1at -Ll c r cu JaS ir1sucu ca c- 11d jeopc rrli zed the lives of East Zone recidcnts ThL pulJlicity led to sonc pre S1 U' J for 2 1 1 invcstigJ tion of ICgU by the I3crli11 Parliar 1eut CIA liaison succeeded in squelch Lnf such action on the part of the Parlimnent and va1•ious 3est German covcrm1ent officials expressed official concern to CIA both as to the EgU spccific D ly o n l the revealed project anerally For c 0 9le one hi 6 h Kai mr liinistry official stated that he could no longer dc_ ·end the activities of these groups to parliamentar r co r Littees without EC1'8 lJ1owledge of their activities and policies he also indicated that he felt that CIA was not actually prepared to turn over these ort anizations to the tiest German government or to run them jointly In anothe i - instance the Kaiser Ninistry in a dernarchc to CIA stated that the Hinistry opposed the conduct of administrative harassment operations by the KcU and threatened a public disclaimer of any Fecnlep connection to or endorsement of KgU acti vi ties if these harass1 1ent operations contir ued P Y• _ •- _ J c J i -_ __ _ • t 1 J - i-J -•-· _ _ J '-'-• i _ _J 1 1 c These events uere the prelude to a series of discussions bct1-rnen CIA staff meJ 1bers awl West German and -est Derlin t overmm mt ofiici J ls result in in the proposal of a joint supervisory body composed of rcpresenk ti ves of ti1e Bonn ai1d Berlill governments as overt r 1entbw·s 2nd of CIA as a covert r 1embe1 It is hoped that such a mecho Ylis1 1 1 will satisfy the German authorities as to the non-valiuity of the various char0 es made aGainst the EgU and other grou1 s nd 2 serve to satisfy GeTrcan press and political figures that these groups are indeed responsive to Gen ran public policy and that the German government endorses their activitiec J Present Status From the beginning of the nesotiations the Eaiser Hinistry has supported the cornnission concept Headquarters has previously concurred in principle to the establishment of 2 cor nnissio 1 1U though initia lly reluctant to participate actively in such a cornr ission Jest Berlin Ea yur Otto Suhr has - pparently been persuaded by the Lriser Linistry J nd hi ourc associates to accept the cornrussion concept Ikgoti tions o 1·c n01 r procressin 6 to the point of discucsion of co11 r J_ssion org2n Lzation function mc 1_ procedu ·es FHJJJ L1_G90 IlJ 299 5 represents the Gerrc _ x1 Station's position on these points Headc_uarters position on these terms of rcfcl'ence rnre inrlicJ te i to the Ger r 1o n Stdion in DIR 33891 OU'f 928 1 c 1 l jGC _ 266 3 both atto_ciiecl