CONFERENCE AT THE SOVIET ZONE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006200560006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFI /COPTrROL - Um S. OFFICLL:LSS of ,Y 25X1 A
ENTRAL NTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION RE-PORT
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Conference at the Soviet Zone
Ministry of Information
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conference in the Soviet Zone Ministry of :i , ra ion on
a moo. 09
was attended by Information x"inister Gerhard E' sle , f'olizeipraesid.ent ..;aldemar
E o ichnidt, Vizepraesident Alfred Schoerherr, four PK-Leiter of the Volkspolizei,
2 viet Army officer ""akarov (fnu), and his interpreter .=ewer . (fnu), two
thpr Soviet officers and two representatives of the Soviet "one German
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Takarov issued an. order that all civilian guards in nationalized enterrises
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c hi and government offices be immediately placed under the Jurisdiction of the
-' o 2 n olkspolizei, but remaining administratively attached to their former employ-
ers . New guards wore to be hired only through the a,_:prcpriave VP offices
z A! w 11 guards who had been discharged from police service after 1.94 for any
a Q o o e a eason were also to be rernc';ed from guard service, All guard personnel were
W z m o he provided with firearms, such as pistols and. car'oines, anal tales part in
v a iwreekly arms instruction conducted by VP personnel. All Eunrd personnel wore
to be issued unifotins as sp.3eedily as possible o r,"a. arov wanted a v,~vr ittc:n state-
ment on the execution of tha?~ae osiers by 1 October 1;350?
3. Durin the subsequont discussion the German participants o