COMMUNIST PLANS FOR A PROVISIONAL CITY ASSEMBLY IN THE SOVIET SECTOR OF BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300310004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Gerr?atiy (Russian Zone~ONF DENNL DATE DISTR. 3 Feb? 3.949
SUBJECT Communist Plans for a Provisional City NO. OF PAGES 1
Assembly in the Soviet Sector of Berlin
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1. Preparations for the calling'of a Berlin city parliament ,,Oro begun when
the Eastern iagietrat was constituted, but were halted after a conference
of top S'ED leaders ('Jilhelm Pieck, Frans Dahlen, and Rans Jendretzky) with
.T?A officials in ICarlshorat on 12 and 13 December 1948. The SED has now
been directed to convince the other Soviet Sector political parties that
the Immediate establishment of a parliament ',ould appear undemocratic.
The "Democratic Bloc" is to be instructed to agree that the extra-parlia-
mentary methods of 1945 and 1946 -- by which a Soviet-constituted i?Sagietrat
governed through ordinances without city, or district parliaments -- could
achieve much more than sham parliamentary measures,
2. The SED, the Soviet-sponsored CDU and LDP factions, and the Soviet
Sector SPD group, had been invited to nominate twenty members each by 15
December for the new, parliament. The additional fifty deputies needed for
the parliament were to be named, on the basis of ten members each, by the
FDGB, the FD:,, and DFB, the Gonsumera Cooperatives (Konsur.;enosaenschaften),
and the Kulturbund.
3. The question of the parliament had been discussed in detail on 8 December
in a noetinn of the "Democratic Bloc". The LDP group led by Frans Gensec1,
particularly, promoted the idea that a provisional parliament could, at least
ex cost facto, legalize the I-iagistrat which had been constituted on 30 Novrem-
1x3r., The chief difficulty, howiver, revolved around the virtual impossibility
of finding suitable candidates for the city district (Bezirk) assemblies which
would have to be constituted at the sane time.
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