NEW SED POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001500430002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
East Germany
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United states, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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11 June 1953
New SED Policy
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Tune 1953 a meeting of the Central Committee of the SED was held
in Berlin, at which the following orders were given:
a. No further agricultural production cooperatives (Produktions.genossenschaften)
are to be established. Existing cooperatives are to.be maintained and regularized.
b. All farmers who have been apprehended while trying to flee from East Germany
shall be released except those convicted of sabotage. They will be en-
couraged to go back to their properties, which are to be returned to them.
This order is to apply also to the owners of large farms (Grossbauern),
and such farmers are no longer to be detained in "reception campsit.
e, No additional farmers will be accepted as members in the production coope-.
ratives which now exist.
d. All judgments and judicial verdicts against farmers will be reviewed.
e. In principle, no more legal actions are to be brought against farmers for
tax delinquency.
f. Credits for working farmers are to be expanded.
The services of the tractor stations will henceforth be made availabZe'for
all classes of farmers.l
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2. Walter Ulbricht is said to have taken part is the meeting and to have made
the closing speech.
3. All copies of the last issue of the "Merkbuch fu-. den Agitator" were recalled
and removed from circulation. A new Issue is being prepaz'ed, which will assert
that the Soviet Union should not, for propaganda purposes, be used as the
only example of true socialism.'
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C-oment: These orders apparently form the basis for the more con-
ciliatory policy toward the peasants which was announced by the Politb-ILVI.
of the SED on 10 June.
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