FIELD MARSHAL FERDINAND SCHORNER AND OTHER EX-PRISONERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006200230001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION S-E-C-R-E-T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
Germany/Austria
Field Marshal Ferdinand Sch8rner
and Other Ex-Prisoners
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHITHE MEANING OF TITLE 18. SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. 8. COMMAS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
13 PRO lit SITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
with his previous officers and soldiers
REPORT
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DATE DISTR.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
was given the political mission of establishing connections
return from the USSR. He did no
Schoerner, although he had been a rigid
disciplinarian, was by no means as unpopular as the `lest Gerran
tress was vriting.
-right r_an to convince the former Austrian soldiers that the USA 25X1
vanted to make West Austria a bastion of the NATO powers and
thus furtively to brin;r about a new _inschluss of part of Austria 25X1
with ,.Nest Germany. Schoerner was in ormed in i4'oscow that the
execution of these plans would bring about the division of Austria.
2. It was learned that the last German soldiers still retained in 25X1
the USSR because of alleged war crimes would return soon. They
had no longer been treated as TVs for more than a year and were
being trained for important posts in Germany.
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