DEVELOPMENTS AFTER BERLIN RIOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002000190009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION a;EXItZT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COMM kit Genlear
UUJECT asve1o i anta after Berlin Riat
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THIS iS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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c firing tt:e riots. in past Lerlin and Fast Gerr*n ? Ott 1 -7te-
discontent I of the population in: East Germany.' Letters fro Thuria64efor exa pie, .
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stated that the local population wished to join the West., Walter Ulbrfs:l%. c
ted that these people obviously needed to be flogged with a knout?
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cerried with processing letters of cosuplaint. hid.j ewe bar the hundreds t sii the
na ation were written in a rather frank manner, and reflected Vie eaorm)as
REPORT
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DATE DISTR. 26 k-ust 1953
NO. OF PAGES I
NO, OF ENCLS.
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can tanic3 ' e s,,ei bl ed to enter the Soviet sector.
woh3 had made the request for eiployrent of Soviet tanks a ter lust'yr Jl"- art
der: a=
et the Politbiureau had received word from SE iem,"r, . in West terlf a that
ater Pres ent Otte Groteworl :ias since the riots teen
2- be office of 1ini
3tto Grotevohl sand Walter ilbricht conferred with the Russians in I r1si :st
;vary second night. a craft for the Sovie; red;; nct tau t1e 25X1
est notes b r the Western, Powers in Sep ember _1952 had been Vrepered and emande+d
that a gcwerranent be forne=e froth representatives in Bonn and Pankow &r id b- followed ed :y' free elections It was hoped that the 3?D woult eo.re 3.krge25X1
*tins in the elections for the Bundestag (Lower House)
Jn 20 Ju e, 5ezenoit received lnfluenviai -LepresenUldTCS 6`e` the ttLac rt=' e:-, Fer-
, rrls close to -tto urotewon l s o f ice co tiered th' s an inc ication .l t. o
was looking for new ministers,
j. Preparations for "alter Ultricht's birthday were reduced by the of fine c= I e .
e d t Otte Grotewahl to the reasure which was customary for all ee 7^ 3 of
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Finance 14in3.ster Dr. Hans Loch. would soon be drop
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