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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100340013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: June 13, 1959
• Content Type: PREL

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THE PRIVATE 'LIFE- OF. A NERVOUS, COGNAC-DRINKING WOMAN OFFICIAL IN
COMMUNIST EAST G MANY--WAS DESCRIBED TODAY M1'TUE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF
THE CENTRAL INTEIGENCE AGENCY.
THE LIFE OF EAST GERMAN K31#NISTER OF . JUSTICE HILDE BENJAMIN WAS
PORTRAYED BY CIA OFFICIAL'RICHARD HELMS AS ONE 'OF 'CONTINUAL SUSPENSE
IN A COUNTRY PRIMED FOR. REVOLT AGAINST ITS COMMUNIST' RULERS,
HELMS IN A SPEECH'P$EPARSD FOS THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION'S 12TH ANNUAL-CONFERENCE, INDICATED HIS INFORMATION HAD
COME FROM "REPORTS OF THE CIA; RECEIVED OtEH THE POSY-WAR YEAR6.oe"
TILE CIA- IS BELIEVED TO MAINTAIN A..NETWORK: OF..AGENTS IN IRON '
CURTAIN COUNTRIES.
HELMS SAID THE 'STORY OF ItILDE WAS IN A. SENSE "THE STORY OF THE
WHOLE MOCK GOVERt1MEt$T'OF CAST GERMANY -- THE REGIME THAT THE, SOVIETS
AT GENEVA HAVE BEEN TRYING TO 'CLOAK IN RESPECTABILITY?'!.
HE `SAID HILDE WAS THOROUGHLY'-TRAINED -IN' THE SbVIET UNION BEFORE SHE
RETUdNED TO EAST GERMANY 1N 1949;
o?-SHE HAD LEARNED:WELL WHAT-SOVIET-LAM IS: A COMMUN+I$T SACRIFICIAL
RITE PERFORMED PERIODICALLY TQ REMIND THS MEMBERS Of THE, TRIBE NOT' TO
BREAK THE TABOOS," HELMS STAID.
"'TOVAY,.AS.MINISTER OF JUSTICE, HILDE DOMINATES WHAT-IS LEFT OF
rAST 'aFRKAN 'JURISPRUDENCE, BUT SHE DOES NOT -SEEM HAPPY. SHE HAS BEEN
KN6W,N TO STORM FROM HER. CHAMBERS?AND SCREAM 'AT A' CONFUSED CLERK IN THE
~1'3OM ABOVE HER THAT HIS CHAIR SQUEAKS. SHE POLISHED OFF A 'VERY LARGE
Gi.ASS OF COGNAC AT A GULP.' AT LEAST ONE BODYGUARD PROTECTS HER AT ALL
11MES -= THREE WHEN SHE'S HOWB. THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE IS NERVOUS1"
HELMS" SPEECH WAS BUILT AROUND THE THOUGHT THAT "IF AMERICANS STAND
FIRI IN PATIENCE AND RESOLUTION,. THE SELF-DETERMINATION.OF PEOPLES
V AY SOME DAY COME TO LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE."
RE SAID'"THE SPIRIT OF ?o.. REBELLION' IS NOT DEAD. IT LIVES IN
WJ4(ARY, IN LIVERATED AUSTRIA, IN THREATENED BERLIN. IN THE USSR
X113--JD85iA .
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75.001.49R000100340013-3