RECRUITING FOR THE KVP AND VP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004000970007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 6, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/04/22 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA004000970007-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document oo ttalas tntonnrtlms effecting the Its-
tional Defense of the United atates, wtthln the mean-
Int of Title 18. aecttona 790 and 794. of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmieaton or nseetatlen of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthaelsed psson Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this teem Is Prohibited.
SECRET/UON1ROL -- U.S..-OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Recruiting for the KVP and VP
This is UNEVALUATED Information
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DATE DISTR. 6 May 1954
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. A meeting took place on 8 March between representatives of the SLD Berlin
Bezirksleitung, the mass-organizations and the UP. The role of the mass-
organizations in improving'the KVPis political work and the progress of the
KVP1 s recruiting campaign were discussed. The -FDJ hr's 'had a large part of
the responsibility for recruiting and it came out during the discussion
that members of the FDJ Bezirksleitung had been called to' task by Hermann
Axon because of the Party's dissatisfaction w ith the uninspiring recruiting
methods being used, Axon attributed the slow pace of voluntary recruitment
to the lack of qualifications'of the FDJ members concerned with it, In the
future not only will recruiting delegations be sent into the factories but
meetings must be held which will make the idea of joining the UP attractive,
All arguments against the necessity f or- strengthening the KVP at this parti-
cular time must be dealt with summarily, said Axon: It was in fact not a
question of strengthening but of replacing older comrades who had to retire$
and of giving those in mbers who had worked themselves to exhaustion since
17 June a chance to rest.
2 In VEB Funk-work Koe enick, during March 1954, young workers have been called
up a are a committee rlocal SE,) officials and a Volkspolizei officer,
and pressed to enroll in the Volkspolizei. The committee has also confronted
certain of them with remarks they are repay ted to have made during the 17
June disturbances, asking them for an explanation and evidence that they have
since regretted them.
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