DDR FOREIGN MINISTRY AND TREATIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400050007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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_: in the course of, the summer of 1950, the DL'R will conel. tde a series
of treaties similar to that recently concluded i 1.th Poland with the
remaining satellite countries of eastern Europe '..`ge ehosl v'akia,,
Bulgaria, Rumania, and u gary). Erich Kops, the DDB. ambassador to
Hungary and Fritz Crosse. the ambassadur to~Czechoslovakia, ~.lsitad
Walter U1br:L. nt in Berl h in the week of 12 June to discuss details
of these treaties. The treaty with CzechosIvvac1a will fix the
frontiers at the 1937 border. and will record certain trade agree-
scents. Ulbricht is planning to travel to the above four satellite
states Wing the ;um er of 195O to continue discussions concerning
these treaties. le will probably be accompanies by Crete Kuckho:f f,;
his assistant in charge of economic policy, who was present at the
Warsaw dlsca:ssion:3,.
Rudolf Appelt, the DDR ambassador to the "USSR . was provided with
full authorization to conclude trade agreements, but this authar?iza..
Lion has since been rescThded, apparently because of the objections
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CONFTDENTIAZ
Opinion in the UDR Ministry )f' Foreign Af"la1.rs. coricerning the FDJ
4Vhitsun rally is that it eves a t-emendo'is success, that it demon-
st-ated that all the vnrith of the DDR is enthuusiasticall. T in favor
of the republic.
Personnel of the UDR I'in;.stry for Fore i Affairs are given poli.-
tical and prof;'ess1ona7 t-aininr at thA Ver~F,altur,? y-Akademi.e Y'Ialter
llihricht in Fers - Zinnao There are two courses offered, one last-
ing six months and the other two years. in addition, there are
regular weekly ori.z)ntation seminars xeld ? ithin the ministry it-
self, on rJednesd y rnor.iin.ns from 08115 to 101% hnurs, For this pur-
pose, the personnel is, divided into croups of 15.2.) persons and
different speakers ar provided each week. The seminars tend,
however, to ie perfunctory qu,stions and answers based on the main.
points of the current, SED party liner 50X1-HUM
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