POST-RIOT DEVELOPMENTS AND PROSPECTIVE GOVERNMENT CHANGES AND MEASURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001600360009-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
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COUNTRY East '.G irat ~ .
SUBJECT Post Riot Developments and Prospective
Government Changes and Measures
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1. Postal traffic between East and West Berlin had not yet been resumed on
20 June. The curfew was in effect between 10 P.Me and 4 A.M. Three
traffic channels were established at noon of 19 June at Prinzen,
Invaliden and Brunnen Strassen to enable East Berliners to return from
the West Sector. A radio announcement by Police President Waldemar
Schmidt guaranteed unhindered passage. Numerous observations made at
these crossing points indicated that the crossers were immediately
trucked away to collection points at schools and other buildings. As
a result of the examinations made there, arrests were made at the
Stalin Allee building project and the Hennigsdorf steel plant. No
West Berliners have yet returned from the East Sector. A series of
arrests have been made in East Berlin enterprises. Both East Berlin
and the Soviet Zone are suffering from a shortage of foods especially
bread.
2. On 19 June, General Superintendent Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, who
lives in Berlin Weissensee, requested and received permission to visit
Bishop Otto Dibelius. Supposedlyp the Soviet authorities at Karlshorst
had asked' K 'ummadhdr f ?tm rbqupet t.tberrelebtd>s l.Eclat. Nusohke who was
urgently needed for the position of Minister-President in the scheduled
CDU/LDP/NDP government from which the SED was to be excluded.l
3. On 17 June, Hermann Axen told newsmen attending a conference of the
Agitation Section of the SED Central Committee that the disturbances
would prompt the regime to revise its recently adopted measures of
raiding living standards and of striving for German unification.
The government, he said, would not yield to the mob or to western agents
and provocateurs, who had exploited the ideological instability of
numerous workers. The democratic liberties of the GDR, he continued,
would be guarded and the Berlin problem would now be solved as quickly
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DATE DISTR. 24 June 1953
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as possible by any possible means. He called for the elimination of
West Berlin. Axen appeared hysterical with rage and voiced a number
of sinister threats. Walter Ulbricht, who had been scheduled to be
presents failed to make an appearance.
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=nt4 There are some indications that Semenov seeks support
or his new course through the increased employment of the East German
bourgeois parties. Previous rumors had indicated that Nuschke was to
be placed in a leading position. Although it is possible that the SED
may be completely dropped, no confirmation of this has yet been received.
Such a course, as well as the employment of Nuschke, appear still to be
doubtful.
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