POSITION OF WALTER ULBRICHT IN THE DDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001500680004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CE.N.TRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
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This Document contains information agecting 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.
East Germany
Position of Walter TJlbricht in the
DDR
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15 June 1953
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Since Walter Ulbricht is closely associated with the repressive aspects of the
policy established after the second Party Congress, he will be completely dis-
carded or reduced to co-membership on a "Troika" team, together with Otto
Grotew:ohl and Wilhelm Zaisser,
2. In the "Troika",Grotewohl, who is believed acceptable to the West, would negotiate
East West rapprochement; Ulbricht would line up the Party in support of the new
polies; Zaisser would manage the security forces and act as Soviet state sac* ity
control director,
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Comment: t: Middle and higher functionaries would at present be susceptible
to propaganda. which aimed at demoralizing them by pointing out specific instances
where "commie" functionaries have been sacrificed, regardless of their own actions,
as an expedient in carrying out Soviet fore policy.
2 5X1 ~Comment* The "Troika" solution is not improbable in view of the apparent
trend away from ongman rule, as reflected in recent articles attacking the
exaggerated cult of individual leadership. There is no conclusive evidence that
TJlbr icht is in disgrace and the official ' silence concerning him may serve to bring
him in focus with the new Kremlin line.
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