COMMUNIST PARTY FUNCTIONARY COMMENT ON WITHDRAWL OF THE SOVIET OCCUPATION TROOPS FROM AUSTRIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005100150011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
Austria
SUBJECT
Commuhist Party Functionary Cornlaent
on iithdra.7a1 of the Soviet
Occupation Troops from Austria
PLACE
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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INFO.
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REPORT NO.
CD NO.
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DATE DISTR.. 21 June 1950
NO.OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
l:. Richrd : 3vhuellec, editor -in-chief of the Cotnniunist party
organ 'Neste 'i,t in Linz-Urfahr, a a rrsen.ber of the Central
Com.ittesv declared at a conference of the editorial staff
on 2 February 1950 that the Soviets we: a going to leave
Austria only after conditions in the country had chunged,
2, Late in Dece .bar 149 there was a dem.arche of the Central.
Committee in 'ioscow, On this occasion the precarious
situation of the Austrian Cox-.??aunist Party had been pointed
out. Stalin himself received the Austrian representatives
(3chaeller did not mention any names) and assured them
of his fullest support in their democratic fight',
CLASSIFICATION
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Johann Koplenie and Friedrich Hexmann, on the occasion of Stalin's
70th birthday, called on Ualenkov to discuss the situation
of the Austrian Corm.nunlst Party} Ilsalenkov is said to have
promised his support.;
The report to a certain extent is a confirmation of the
fact that leaders of the Austrian Communist Party were
prop:.yed sui q.ort by till undoterrnined top-,hire] repres ^ta
t.ives 1:4 tfa '3ovMIot, r:er'1_,e
Next Review Date: 2008
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
CLASSIFICATION
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STATE
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CONFIDENTIAL
Approved For Release 2001/03/05: CIA-RDP82-00457R005100150011-1