VIEWS OF EX-GENERAL HEUSINGER

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02723836
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2022
• Case Number: F-2022-01257
• Publication Date: December 10, 1952

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECURITY INFORMATION
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT 11
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Views of Ex-General Heusinger
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OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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The following represents opinions expressed by Heusinger
Former General Adolf Heusinger thinks that the United State
initiative in the planning for German remilitarization. He
British are making
this planning, and
2. Heusinger referred
every effort to cultivate and influence
implied that the Americans have been corn
to the war-criminal question, which he c
reasons ti at the United States is losing ground. He emphas
steps" ft4 British have taken. American prestige in German
enhanced, ac ding to Heusinger, if the State Department w
clemency for a number of high-ranking generals in Landsberg
Marshal Wilhelm List, General KUnzel and Field Marshal Ge
Heusinger thinks that clemency proceedings in the immediate
importance in connection with remilitarization, and that if
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is losing the
asserted that the
ermans engaged in
aratively aloof.
nsiders one of the
zed the "positive
would be considerably
re to announce
especially Field
rg von Kuchler.
future are of vital
they are considered
they should be carefully timed to coincide with the Christmas holidays and should
be accompanied by an extensive publicity and propaganda drive in order to achieve
the maximum benefit for the United States.
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