THREATENED RESIGNATION OF FRANZ JOSEF STRAUSS

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05234110
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2016
• Case Number: F-2015-02489
• Publication Date: May 2, 1955

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY West Germany
SUBJECT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
Threatened Resignation of
Franz Josef Strauss
Early May 1955
Germany, Bonn
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2 May 1955
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE
1. Franz Josef Strauss, minister without portfolio, has recently informed the
Chancellor that he will definitely tender his resignation unless he receives
a regular cabinet post by 1 June 1955.
2. Strauss claims that Adenauer has promised him the chairmanship of the National
Security Council, the establishment of which is being planned. Should the
Chancellor fail to live up to this promise, Strauss intends to attract
attention to the Chancellor's authoritarian politics and empty promises by
resigning with considerable fanfare. Strauss has obtained the assurances
of his Party that the chairmanship of the parliamentary defense committee
will be restored to him if he leaves the cabinet. As chairman of the
parliamentary committee, Strauss feels, he can do more constructive work than
in his present post.
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5/55
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(b)(3)
STATE
ARMY
NAVY X
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FBI
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EGN-323,
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