POSSIBILITY OF EARLY ELECTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003900860005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SECRET
East Germany
Possibility of Early Elections
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.B. 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.
REPORT
I 25X1
DATE DISTR. 114 May 1954
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
It is reported that Ambassador V.S. Semenov received Otto Grotewohl on 17 Feb-
ruary '1951 in order to discuss with him.the holding of "democratic elections"
in East Germar{q. Molotov is 25X1
said to consider such elections an absolute necessity, While e bourgeois
bloc parties in East Germany support the holding of free elections, Walter
Ulbricht was allegedly dead-set against them. the
Soviets had demanded that only the SED, NDPD, CDU, and LDP were to be admitted 25X1
for these elections, while of the so-called mass organizations only the FDGB
and`the FDJ were to participate.
ARMY x INAVY
SECRET
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