ORGANIZATION OF KAMPFGRUPPEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900230008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2007
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR1
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
Organization of Kampfgruppen
DATE DISTR: 23 September 1954
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
TH13 DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
1. On 1 June 1954, it was learned that the organization of fighting groups
had been ding on for about 3 weeks in all industrial ei~
of
Kreis Zittau. Such fighting groups were set up-at the 07T ~aenomen
Works, the Zittau weaving mill, and the previous firm of Eernhardt, which
had been nationalized, The recruiting campaign for ;these fighting groups
primarily appealed to the members. of the SED end the FDJ, workers who had
shown their loyalty to the SED regime, former NCOs of the German armed
forces, and men above forty. Efforts were being made to recruit as many
men as possible above forty because they would not be inducted in the
event of mobilization.
2." The strength of these fighting groups will not usually exceed 10 percent
of the total labor force of the industrial enterprise concerned. Training
in firing with carbines and in the defense of factories will be given twice
a week. >?eapons furnished to these fighting groups have been stored in the
individual industrial enterprises in the Zittau area. Practice alarms are
scheduled to be held.
3. Members, of the fighting groups have been informed that they would be trained
as cadre personnel capable of providing leadership to the entire work force
of their enterprise in an emergency/" All candidates recruited for the
11 b a3 k -thw are r to i _ tie u a.list_
property""'. Most of the workers asked did not refuse to join the fighting
groups because they feared the consequences of a negative answer.
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
AIR
NAVY X NSRB
X FBI
H
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