PUBLICATION OF GROTEWOHL'S SPEECH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005900600007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2008
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2008/02/26: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA005900600007-7
CLASSIFICATION
CENT
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
ACQUIREd
DATE OF
INFO.
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1. In the early evening hours of )o November -1'954, the ep*eoh Given
by Grotewohl in _.,oscow was transmitted by teleprinter to the
AD'I news ageLcy. The wording of the report was rather clumsy
because tha text had obvipusly been translated from Russian into
German. The first part o _the.report*-did not oontain anythih.
unusual, but-the conelu$ion ip rather .startling because it
mentioned that the GDR w%u ire forced, to or-?anize a nationals"army
if the Paris azreemev.tp were Watif ied. Bef oce publishing the
startlii part -of the? report, jlaba -Nie,land informed the GDR r : I -?
r'oreien Office, which ?;ypoa. nquiIfy t L'csoow: ius' told -that. the-
report was td be publ.sheui .ia}.,is.etj,re : ` At 2300 hours, 1DIl
thereupon released the nae*944jjart of Gx'o eyotil' speech for
publication. i