MEETING BETWEEN WIRTH AND BERIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700290003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains Information affecting the Pia-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
Ing of Title 18. Sections 799 and 794. of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorlaed person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
COUNTRY East Germazp-
SUBJECT Meeting between Wirth and Beria
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS ON THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
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7July 1953
Dr. Joseph Wirth, former German chancellor, claims that he saw Iairrrenti sera
in Berlin-Karlshorst in Deoeaber 1952. The arrangements for the meeting were
muds by Dr. Erwin Respondek, formerly of the German Foreign Service, who was
also present at the interview.
2. Wirth alleges that he has been asked to take over an important post in a new
East German government which, he was told, will be established soon. He was
tt Ba>t!a that the Russians are planning & new policy toward Germany, and
was asked to collaborate in it.
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