REACTION OF SOVIET IN GOFG TO STALINS DEATH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002000010004-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECtm
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR/Germany (Soviet Zone)
SUBJECT Reaction of Soviets in GOFG
to Stalin's Death
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
This Document contains inforsnst on sl ec' Ing the 11a-
tionsi Defense of the United States, wi hl'ti the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 703 and M. of the J.S.Oode, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person lo prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 3 Aug. 1953
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The day before Stalints death, an order came out in GOFG cancelling all leaves
up to 1 April 1953 and recalling to their units all those away on duty. Those
who had already left their units to go on leave to the USSR, however, were not
returned to their unite by border check points. The order was rescinded on
15 March 1953.
2. Newspapers of purely internal Soviet Army circulation, e.g. Sovetskaya Armiya,
have not lessened their anti-West propaganda since Malenkovte overtures to the
Western democracies.
3. Malenkov's rather abrupt reversal of decisions taken at the 19th Party Congress
had not been discussed in officer circles in GOFG because officers were afraid
to discuss these changes among themselves.
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