SOVIET ZONE GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500190012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized - Approved For Release ' bl4'-RDP82-00457R002500190012-5
CLASSIFICATION o' 25X1 A2g
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Soviet Zone Government Financial Difficulties
PLACE
ACQUIRED
25X1A6a
Retain of testTOY
DATE OF INFO. March 1949
25X1X6
DATE DISTR. 11 March 1949
NO. OF PAGES 1 25X1 A2g
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Officials of the Soviet Zone Border Police have-recently been called to
headquarters at Leipzig and instructed to orient the staffs of their
lower echelons towards an eventual change from the Volkspolizei (People's
Police) to a so-called Volksheer (People's Arrly). A result of this change
would be an increase in the overall police strength in the Soviet Zone,
along with a decrease in policing costs.
2. Sources connect this development Faith what they call serious financial
diff':.culties of the Border Police. They claim that Volkspolizei funds
are so low as to rake payment of salaries difficult, and that garages
refuse to rerair vehicles because they have not been paid for four months
Many higher officials have been raying a considerable nurlber of official
exrenditures from their oun pockets,, sources claim.
25X1 A6a C rt ents It should be emphasized that the above statements
are not yet borne out by other information so far available.)
Next FtoVlow bate: 2
Docum
Dm-AS
Class. CHI
LIDA
Auth: DD
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP82-00457R002500190012-5