SED MOVES FOR JOINT ACTION FOR REUNIFICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004500040002-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
`East. Germany
SED Moves for Joint, Action for Re-
unification
This material contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws. Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law.
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1. It was the intention of the SED to .proc.-aim a national movement for the re-
unification of Germany. On 19 May, in.the conference room of the new town
hall in East Berlin, Hermann Axen, deputy secretary of the SED Berlin district
headquarters - formerly head of the Agitation Section in the SED Berlin district
delivered a speech before the SED..Organizatjon and top functionaries of the
municipal administration, to say that it was' the intention of the SED to
proclaim a national movement for the reunification of Germany and to fight
against a revival of militarism in Western Germany. His .major der,iinds were:
a.. a plebiscite against the EDC
b . _ a peace treaty
c. a prohibition of weapons of mass destruction.
With regard to the forthcoming elections in West Berlin, he stated that it was
planned to subordinate tie West Berlin SED offices to an independent West Berlin
SED district headquartersDd to cooperate with the West Berlin committees for un-
employed people, with iSocialist youth organizations, and with the older, class-
conscious members of the SPD in the campaign against the Adenauer government
in West Berlin. In this connection he mentioned a joint action of the SED
and SPD in Zehlendorf, which, on 17 May, had successfully prevented the DP 25X1
from holding a meeting which was to take place at an inn called "Zum Reichsadler".
According to him it was also planned to start a joint action with the DGB so as
to obtain a 15% rise in wages for the West Berlin workers. He said that
under certain circumstances the SEA was prepared to dissolve its 6 FDGB offices
in West Berlin and to edvtse,yi,: its members to join the Dc. Axen asked the 25X1
assembly 'to be particularly on the alert on.'17 'June, since Western agents were
expected to carry out se otage. The SED would, however, upset the plans of
these rioters-by hermetically closing the border between West and East Berlin d4,.j.this
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