SOVIET POLICY TOWARDS AUSTRIA AND GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300770009-1
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 13, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY Austria/East Germany
SUBJECT Soviet Policy towards Austria and Germany
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DATE DISTR. 13 July 1955
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1. At the recent Warsaw conference, Zhukov promised that the Soviet troops at
present stationed in Austria would return to the USSR. On the other hand,
he was rather certain that the Americans would not return their troops from
Austria to the US but Tito Northern Italy and principally to West Germany.
Thereupon the Czech Minister President and also Walter Ulbricht demanded 25X1
that troops stationed along the western border of Czechoslovakia and KVP
units in Thuringia and on the Elbe River be reinforced. General Heinz Hoffmann
and Ulbricht even tried to have their old plan of building a sort of "West
Wall" along the zonal boundary approved in Warsaw. However, all these plans
had to be postponed. The Soviets declared that they would not reinforce their
occupation troops in Germany, but that they would not oppose precautionary
measures taken by the GDR Government along the Elbe River and by the Czechs
on their western border, as long as these measures remained reasonable. 25X1
Comment. In spite of press reports to the contrary, no entire Soviet
units have been observed leaving Austria so far.. It has only been notified
that the units which were moved to training areas were smaller than in
previous years. The Soviet reserve toward the proposals made by Hlbxicht
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