SED MORALE IN BERLIN EAST SECTOR POLICE
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CIA-RDP82-00457R002200720002-0
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RIPPUB
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S
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2
Document Creation Date:
November 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
January 15, 1999
Sequence Number:
2
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Publication Date:
December 31, 1948
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REPORT
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FOAM NO. 51-4A
SEPT.1948
INFORMATION REPORT
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
of the Interior through the summer of 1948. Before each "action."
or "demonstration" seheduled by top SED leadership, the fanatical
Communists and the true SED su-.o.oorters work themselves up to a
fever Ditch. They Velieve literally the party summons to positive
action and believe each time that the revolution -- in this.. case
the se 7i]re of power in. the western sectors -- is at hand. This
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displays the same symptoms observed it the German Admi_nistr t .on
excitement mounts with the successive party communiques on
or ganiza.ti_on of the denonstratinns~ and manifests itSelf in
statements uttered in perfect sincerity. such as: "We shall force
the 'Amis' out of-.erlin:", "In three weeks they'll be gone;", and
the eastern slice w i-1-1 take over in the western sectors!".
The latter statement was heard frenuently' and was thoroughly
believed by devoted party members, in the week_ before the recent
elections in Berlin.. hen, then, the announced plans -- sometimes
even including the scheduled demonstration itself --- fail to
?3:aterialize, a profound depression results.
Since the oarty has been through. this cycle of extreme excitement
n . e theme disappointment three times since the beginning of the
blockade of Berlin (i.e., at the time of 'the imposition of. the
blockade in June, the split o{ the police de 3artment - ann the, dis-
turbances in front of the City Hall in July and ,tugust, and the
occasion of the r