SEARCH AND IDENTIFICATION SERVICES OF THE GERMAN POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000810004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 10, 1947
• Content Type: IR

,Is Approved For Release 1999/09/08 CIA-RDP82-00457RO01000 g1
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
COUNTRY Ge y (Rueeiar- ZoDO)
SUBJECT Search and Identification
Services of the German Police
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DIST. 10 November 194?
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The German cal police in each Land or Province of the Russian Zone have
an agency which up to now has been labelled the laud es ehrichtenaentrals, and
is kmm in pol5oe cirolea as "U P. The work carried out has been exclusively
along the lima of searches for missing persons (? Iindung) ,. The Land Se x r
headquarters of the service are located in Dresden.
2. The Dresden LYZ office is due to change its name in the immediate future to
aFahndAU swxjd F. rkenrxxungedienst" (Sea,.vh and Identification Service) and will
supp1' police-units with infornation and wanted list bulletins. The Dresden
office employs three or f ourrpeople and. is considered more important then a
Desernat (bureau).
3. On 15 October 1947 a similar search and indentifiaation service office was to
be eetaWAsbed in the Wilhelcasxauhe office of the CCntx A Minis radon of the.
Interior. The Wilhe rahe office was to be known as *K 7l? It wi,fl. serve as
a coordi sting office, responsible for the -Russian Zone sad looperating w..th the
interzonal Fabndun anat.
~.. An office already knotan as K 7 is in exiatenae In Schwerin in the headquarters
of mad Mecklenburg Criminal Police. The agenoy is, like the Dresden office,
a search section, and is interested alst In people being sought for political
reasons. Chief of the Schwerin office Is Krlmip;L Assistant Sobmidt. It in
reported that the agency works In close contact with the !4VD and the Gentmi
Administration of the Interior of .Berlin.
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