REORGANIZATION OF SOVIET SECTOR AND SOVIET ZONE POLICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001800580007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 27, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
CLASSIFICAIIOIV -, Gr~TL
COUNTRY Gerr;ny (Russian Z
SUBJECT Reorganition of Soviet Sector
and Soviet Zom, Police
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DATE DISTR. 27 Au. ust 1948
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
25X1X6
to Effective 26 Au, Lust 1945 the Gornan Administration of Interior w ll assi
full control over Soviet Sector Berlin Kripo tKriminral Polizei)
i-rhich will be placed directly under the Zonenkrin. nalamt. The B rlin Kripo
will be desi.z?nated as a Kriminalamt with the Ametions and authority of the
I.,ndeskrir._inalamtor in the Soviet Zone. After the :,Jest-rn Allies leave Berlin,
the Landeskriminalarit-Potsdam for Land 3randenburg .rill be di-solved and its
functions will be talon over by the Krirninalamt-Berlin and the Zonenkriminalamt$
25X1 X6 . s These developments are similar to the rre-war police pract 1X6
tthon Dorlin controlled the police affairs of Province '3randenbur.
25X1 X6 &arlin is deli^nated ar. a Kriminralamt, orittin.g the prefix Land,
because. the SED tjanted to avoid the su gestion of a tacit endorserant of the
Berlin iaristrat plans to declare Berlin, in view of its special si,-nificance,
as having the status of a Land in a future Ger.an federation.)
2. Alfred Seh8nherr, for-mar head of Abteilung K, GAI, '.rill set up and head the
Zonenkrininalarit, *.?rhich i-rill be located in Berlin.
3. 11o such action for the 3erlin Schupo (Schutz Polizei) is as yet planned.
25X1 A6a a "'-?- s The above inforrr++lation is yet another indication that the
Sit is proceedin^! on the n uz rtion that the oplit of Harlin i final. Des-
rite loud rrop ands to the contrary, the Soviets, by forcing throu-h roves
on the police and the 1'astrat, are cornitted to irrevocable division of the
city. Tho unifie-1 city adr-inistration and the police are disintejratin7 YAiile
ner;otiations continue in Nloscotr to restore the status quo.)
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