BOURGEOIS PARTIES IN THE DDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800380006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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Vi rberrs of the Iibourgeriis parties" in the DI)R are, persuaded, that these
parties are soon to be liquidated. At a session of the "Democratic Bloc
of-Anti-Fascist Parties" on 20 January 1953 there were tumultuous scenes
over the Dertip.ger exrest. Members of the O:A,.tstian Democratic Union (ODLT)
accused Otto Nusbhke, of lacking any political, importance. In ,,the .party, mee#ng
resolutions were' passe . in. fa nor of increased watchfulness against traitors
The :SS's sea;rchtd; the offices of the ODU in Berlin.
2. X116. old dLsagr?eement between Otto ;Nuscha and Gerald a .t tying-, general
senreta:r?y of .the OD 11, has 'become intensified. G5ttthg - went to the Ministry of
State Security to attempt to ring Nus'a hke under control'. N`usch1e 'is. in St. George
hospital as the reau,lt of an accident,, closely watched by S D men.
3. Mi the meetings of the National Democratic Party' (N;DP) on 211. January 1953 in
Berliaa - p on 25 and 26 January 1953 in Halle., arrests were feared.
T.he se c rdp~r de at
`. ,, Heinrich Homarxn, told the Berlin meeting that the party
would not resist an order to dissolve if it were given in the interests of
building a so a:l.ist,, state.
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