ORGANIZATIONAL AND PERSONNEL CHANGES IN THE EAST SECTOR BERLIN POLICE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004500110001-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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PhInamivit-Tiori REPORT
UNFIDENTIALI
Germany (Berlin Russian Sector)
Organizational and Personiml Changes in
the Bast Sector Berlin Policc:
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1. Employees of Section AK (political police) and of the Criminal
Police. within the Berlin Poliz(Aprasidium, are currentiv being screened
in hour-long interviews to test theis suleaoility as members
of the Hauptverwaltung zum Schueze der Volkswirtschaft (sepa-
rated from the Ministry of the'entereor liDdi and given minis-
terial status as the Ainistry for State Security under a law
passed by the Volkskammer of the DDR on 8 February 1950). Those
persons declared qualified for he new ministry will, temporarily
divide their time between their forme: assignments and their new
postions. Source could not stete what future positions would
be open to those who were not aecepted for assignment in the new
organization
2? The duties of lieferat
pr4sidium, with the exception c
associations, police administre.
the reduction of sentences (finE
the eiagistrat, effective date e
taken at a meeting of official
Volkspolizell 27 January 1950.
3, Polizeikommandeur Juli-
command of the Guard Battalion ?
Seelenbinderstr. This unit tot
section of 158, and is deaigne(
guard for official state funct5.
police) of the PolizelprasidluE
over the Guard Battalion.
Administrative Police, Polizel-
f mat ters pertaining to private
Ave 121-v; police injunctions and
ensaeeten) will be transferred to
yet unknown. This decision was
of the HauptVerwaltung fDr
Alfeed Siegmund has been given
etationed in Berlin-Kopenick,
als. 610 mon, including a motorized,
to parfoem the duties of an honor
ens, Abteilung S (uniformed
will exeecise command authority
4, Section KD 1, Criminal Direetioe Unit, Criminal Police .
Department of the Polizeiprdsidium, is now titled Organization
and. Planning, although it continues to exereise the functions
eoneained in its former name, Inspection and ControL
Polizeirat Zahr Referent for. Complaint e (Beschwerdesteele)
aeferat for Legal Affairs in the Seczetariat of the President of
the Volksoolizei ineBerl4n, wae dismised withou notice en I.
February 1950, 'SUeeeSesor-Jee Poli7eimele4ter 'ffnu) Leitheff5.
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formerly with Referst Prafwese; (cha2ged with final review of
all finoncial matt= of the a rlin eolice). It is planeed
to transfer Aeferat Prufwesen ?rom the Secretariat to Abteilung
Intendantur in the near future eorrenponding to the system in
effect in the HV fUr Vo3.kspolirei.
6. Inspoctor Hans Seidel, Polizoikomandour Konrad and
Polizeirat Inge Spielmann, seceetary to Seidel, Abteilung
:ntendantur, were all recently arreeted and charged with large-.
scale black market dealings in cenfecated goods and have re-
cehtly been freed as a result sf the implication of too many
higu ranking police officials Ln the affair for any effective
prosecution.
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