MIKOYAN'S VISIT TO GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006900700003-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 10, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
1st Germany
Rikoyan's Visit to Germany
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Kremlin when he visited East Berlin and the Leipzig fair.
"Aikoyan prevented the SED frcm taking immediate
political directives for the Soviet Zone governinent from the
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Mikoyan had. brought
counter-measures against the ratification decisions of the Bonn
Lower House and changed the main points of the Covermiont declaration
whieil Grotewohl made to tho Poople?s Chamber on 2 Larch,
which had been agreed upon and which called for a referendum on the
basis the Frankfurt Paulskirche Manifesto in all of Germany,
Central Committee arbitrarily changed the text of :.Mikoyan's directive
a deplorable incident had occurred when the SED
the SED Central Committee made. the statement more unacceptable
to tr) ; ;hest, since Ulbrioht and those close to him feared th..t they
would lose their positions and consequently tried to postpone the
reunification.
When i4ikoyan returned to Berlin from Lei%zi? he was in.forL;ec, of the
changes made in thc; directive he brought from :uoscow by Crlev,
first counsellor of the Soviet -,.mbassy and thr::atc cd a
this incident Mould have serious consequences.
K hrushchav probably would concern himself with this a nuident :Ar.J
it would depend on the political situation and the weir-ht he attributed
to Jlbrioht what the outcome would be. Bulgjnin
Uolotov would probably no longer tolerate any thwarting of their
political conceptions.
4, Mikoyan made Foreign Minister Dry Bolz
travel to ,'arsaw and State Secretary Hrwndke, deputy forei,.,n minister
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in regard to the plarn4d ari od forces in East Ge ^~ nc 1,Oth Prague
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yet overcome doubts in .arsaw abcwL w..s reliability of tho KVP.
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