SED PLANS TO INCREASE PRODUCTION IN THE EASTERN ZONE; TRAINING OF KPD NEWSPAPER EDITORS IN THE WESTERN ZONES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000710009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 6, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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L iNTELLIGENICE GROUP
,;;OUNTRY Germany (All Zones)
SP>1) Plans to Increase ProIuetion in the Eastern
Zone; Training of KP.O Newspaper Editors in the -
Vestern Zones
SUBJECT
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Current SED plans, as outlined by ?falter U1Yr-:teht and Otis Grotawoh1, provide
for a campaign to inereaso production and cor: :at the E,Ia Tang demoralization and
lassitude of workers in the Eastern Zone. In connection i th this, the SEU
-All propose and support laws for the severe punishment of shirkers and 3ab
t rs. -dhen the matter aaa first discussed, Klink of the Econoi is Division of
the Central Secretariat expressed the opinion that ?rork oera.ps would do nothing
to raise the morale of the 'rorkero and little to correct prevalent abuses; his
soon of a sr r~C;'J of bonusesi he~;e'er r:* ;~r ':lady ?e~ected 'h -Y U1br cht ,
Dra itic r-eeasures are also to be taken to prevent compensation deals arr black
_'n irket arc t _vities. At oresen t , between thirty F?nd a forty )er cent
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Be :.veen 10 end 2 October 19 -`t Leap. Etde, mat'rag- ap, editor of
e ~.,LLDedt sch1an, and Span :nberg, er lief of thE. westei?n edltlonR
wil tour the western zones for purposes of collecting; information.
z accordance witri a new 'po1. `ST, whereby three or four edl t Dr `
''' }i he u/t? tern 7One Wi ! I h employed on the paper for e:i C'CT5
AC., T a few months; Bocu:dai. 2 resident of Herne U,52% in st'estph211ac
has been appointed an editor of the N u.e s_I7 ut~^ch pj _~.or eight
i s '`#nas svstefn "ill fore sta-]_..3 ;log 51bi. Ifl :l`.-a es in the ".reat-
$fe n o s. Do ltlcal or ecororn:f.c p'robiems of -(.he wc..,; .ei'S'}. zones,
sauIe i,irne :L--u.rni.shi g western zonei.. rdl,tors ,;A?t;1 val.iai :k..s ~,. ..
: r' era e for their future rjork. Die L-1611 has ordered that the
:tae'?esueutsehland appea.c in an caitior of about one rn1_tl..aoa.i two
hundred thousand ocaples more than half of these 9111 be shipped
(. the western zone
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