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
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November 9, 2016
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January 15, 1999
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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 S.FIFAION'9 #~ Approved~or a ease 1 /09 : A- - 4 R002200 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 PLACE DECLASS ACQUIRED lass. C1: ln: TS S Di. Anr 77 NO. OF PAGES 2 NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) c SUPPLEMENT TO 4 PORT NO. 25X1A2g 25X1A6a 25X1X6 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