WEAKENING POSITION OF LEO-SKRZYPCZYNSKI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000080010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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COUNTRY Germs (Russian Zorn. )
SUBJECT
ORIGIN
fr:.gkenin; Position of
ios Skrzypc?,ynski
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DIST. It etober 1947
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la xring the year 1947, the position of Leo Skrayposynski, presid ant
the Central Administration for lnduatry, has become progreselve?
..y weaker, and it is believed by perscnal friends that he still
holds his job only because of protection from hi a-racking Russians
at Karlshorst The Russians apparently prefer to have the indu; ?-
trial administration directed by a nor-party bourgeois. on the
other hand,, the SED has conducted a continuous behind-the-scene;
c,armpaign against Skrzypcaynski because it wishes to appoint one of
its own members to his important position
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2 A ^ uallys Skrzypcaynski P s work is handled by his vice president,
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.danger, and he frequently does not even visit his office for
--iveral days Boulanger:; an SED rlemberp originally began under-'
truing Zkraypcayn: ki l e position from. p'arsonal ambition? but the ,
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1s no doubt that he is now acting
in conjunction with SE D.
kraypaaynaki1 in consequence,, has no real halide knowledge of
Cefxtral Administration for Indust-1 an-3 is manifestly ignorant FM
concrete facts concerning It., Moreover. his former excellent
personal relations with Walter Ulbricht have now noticeably
deteriorated,
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ra rpez-naki gtves3 as his reason for not resigning his job under
?'-wn unfavorable conditions the fact that imnortant British ant.
ecognition from anochr fti if h bkith th
y-eaconeroe we RUasiane
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Russian cooperation that he could not hone for satisfactory
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:lieve his real reasons are that his personal ambition stands in
..can officials asked him to remain,. His friends however
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.Wpezynskits chief protector at Iarishoret is now Genet' Leonid Greaorit
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value as an informant on German affairs and as a channel of in-
formation to the western Allies, either voluntarily or unwilling-
ly. His favor permitted Skrzypczynaki to spend his vacation in
the American Zone, after Semyonov had refused permission.
Skrzypczynak1's relations with both Semyonov and Koval are no
Longer as good as they were.
document contains info nation
d'fec a national defense of the
t&dted Sta thin tho meaning of the
Espionage Act C. 31 and 32 as
amended. Its tran or the
revelation of its conten any
ma ner is prohibited by law.
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