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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100050037-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2002
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: May 18, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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2. Possible US effort to obtain. German unification--The Depart-
ment of State has informed US High Commissioner McCloy
if the atmosphere of recrimination were absent.
of its willingness to make one more real effort to unify both.
Berlin and Germany before recognizing the division of the
country. The Department indicates it has little hope such
an effort will succeed but feels willing to go through with it
because: (a) important German leaders believe that Western
moves favoring all-Berlin and all-German elections must be
more than mere propaganda maneuvers; and (b) the French
apparently require positive evidence of Soviet unwillingness
to re-establish Berlin as a unified, quadripartite city before
considering the possibility of making Berlin a 12th German
Land. The Department believes negotiations could be carried
on at first by an exchange of US-Soviet notes, following which
a conference might be held if differences began to narrow and
State Dept-review completed
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3n US plans protest on Soviet Zone police for 25 May--The
Department of State has advised US Embassy Moscow
that the US formal protest to the USSR over the militariza-
tion of the East German police should be made public in
time to receive maximum German press treatment on
26 May, two days before the Communist Youth Rally in
Berlin, The Department suggests that the Embassy
endeavor to coordinate with the British and French in
presenting the protest notes to the Soviet Government on
25 May,
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