BERLIN INTERSECTOR TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003400420008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting 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.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Berlin Intersector Telephone
Communications
PLACE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 21 Jan. 1954
NO. OF PAGES Z
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1.
Aa of 18 Janu ry9 East Berlin postal workers have been feverishly at work trying
to repair the cut cable between lkst and West Berlin. Soldering teams are busy
trying to link 800-pair cables. Competent list postal_authoritie, doubt that the
24 January deadline for re-linking last and West telephone connections will be
met,.
as RTA, P7Z, FQA, Schnellamt on Wilhelmstrelsse, and Fernamt Berlin are to have
night duty officers physically present in the respective offices. Instructions
are to be issued to them as to what to do on "Z-day". The new duty officer has
nothing to do with normal plant security, which continues as before.
Television sets have been set up in 60 East Berlin information centers of the
national front in preparation of transmissions of the Your-Power Conference.
part of the cable runs along Stalinallee. Soviet troops were observed opening up
and checking telephone cables and connections at cable shafts along various East
Berlin streets on 19 January.
3. Effective 20 Januarys all technical offices of the East Berlin post office such
bassy on Unter den Linden and Soviet headquarters in Xarlshorst, The major
2. Soviet engineer troops are engaged in running a field cable between the Soviet
(Note: Wnakington Distribution Indirnted By "X"; Field Distribution By
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