DDR GOVERNMENT GOSSIP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004200720002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA004200720002-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SEGREV
East Germany
DDR Government Gossip
DATE OF INFO. 25X1A
PLACE ACQUIRE
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.
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
3 June 1954
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
25X1X (FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. No final decision ha,3.. yet been made on the type of elections scheduled to be held
in. East Germany in the fall of 1954. The same applies to the rumored resignation
of President Wilhelm Pieckowhose state of health has slightly improved recently.
2. Accot?ding to srce} Minister Winkler stated.that,the SED party congress in Berlin
had enhanced the prestige of the SED in the lone. The minister furthermore
expressed the opinion that the GDR Government would make one more effort to
start negotiations with the Bonn Government on the reunification of Germany.
If Bonn should. refuse to negoti4te with the GDR Government even after it had 'been
given full sovereignty by the. Soviets and if it should continue its present
EDC policy, the. GDR would then be forced to take countermeasures and to
organize ;national armed forces in East Germany.