MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR, VPL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000500410002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, New personnel assigned to the Ministry of the Interior, YPL between
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on 15 December additional rations for 52 offi-
red collar patcheslwere accoranodated in one of the two law :.~:~i?.dings of
the installation. 1
cars were req r . ese officers almost exclusively .lieutenants wearing
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the 3rd~Guard Platoon, 2
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except- or s o car, move o e es n .about mid--November 1952.
~? After. approximately- 5 Decs~mber 1952, medical corps Major Rippel>reger or
RiffelzCeyer (fnu), who was sxew at the Ministry of the Interior, VPL, held 25X
consultation hours on Tuesdays and Fridays. It could nat b? deterneined
whether this physician also worked for other governmont offices.
4.. On 2 Decezber 1952, a letter and questionnaire frog the 2
"Regierung der Deutschen Demokratischen.Republik, Ministerium des Inneren,
VPL" (Government of the German Democratic republic, Ministry of the In-
terior, VPL) signed by one Kerr Barthel (fnu}. 3
air force construction pro-
December 1952 and Januarg 1953, included the Drewitz, Jocksdorf, Bautzen,
I~amenz, rothenburg, and Pirna projec~s. Other constuctian projects were
Tutow and Oberwiesenthal airfields.
jests which were under wag n e o us- oerlitz-~KKanienz trianglt?, in
C. In December 1952,1 the central supply depot of the
V~'L was located at 47', Rauschwalderstrasse in Goerlitz. ~
Comment. The officers with red collai patches mentioned in the 25X1
present report may be assienec~ to VPI units for political indoctrination __
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Gomtnentb It is unknown where ~Jberwiesenthal is located. The town 25X1
of Gberwiesenthal on the Saxonian-Bohemian border near Annaberg is not
believed to be the one referred i;o. Ro~~henbux~g is identical with Bremen-~
1 other installations are kno~m from previous reports.,
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