REVOLUTIONARY VIGILANCE AND THE FIGHT AGAINST AGENTS IN THE SED

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006800150005-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT N),
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CON FI DENTIAIQ TE DIST. 6 Feb
25X'h BJEC Pev ,1ution:ty Vi larce and the
Fi?,ht Aga:rst Agent in the SED
a HO refit;:?urant in Ehe:rawa.ide (sic) 'hau maned rx;8entmunt amo;_Fg St,
functionaries and raumerons ;? eaaltafiararas hfivm been addre=,, ed to
Politburo pr?otesting his x??:`.?aase,* *
HO. OF RAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT Nr).
The directive order?iog the purge of Marker nd his grouap has '?c pt. produced
the results which the b eiit ro and the Cow".ral cin iti;ee it wuztl
bring .forth,. This sl}ould bi, attributed to the c.ix atai :s i3 .nce taax~ f.ra al~-:
party discussions conc3rning the directive were overshadowed' y p,~^ep&.ra" .leas
for the October t.ecA t Ir ra, In connection wit,-,h the exch tng .af mrir"bership
books the discussion will "h i rrsaruzed,, erk+ r ~, s app:oin' cent, a,3 rnena ea k,,-f
2. U any inst anew have 4-,o :a no feel where Party units cor $ ncd to R
cztin,` 7 ex,~xac:ts fr r, tri`3 Ci3rtral Cor.rrittoe } e resoluG .ou covie ; ~.:i.Ya'?; I'Ella?
Iiorker, rather than driving fron it an inrulso for indoperoear, rove ,t ?
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tions of no-.,wible agg,,nt activities ithin their own un_Ivs an lants.
3. The forthcoming eachvtra n^ nerber;,hip hook? has already Epro-.ate?~d a foei_
in, of ra.n c ar'onr Party r, J,_-ber r, . This of G3 roasuro b 6Z,
been fostored by throats expressed by fu-ctionarios who have 'ern ;,e? lin ,
Party ner-: r,:, that they would be ousted unless- they porfoi ccrta?n du ,ry_e
with e' pedi+, ion. The ZPKK innts the investiation to '} col d~Yc;{.od in the
chaser of a corredol r convorsaGaon rather than that of a tribtnai.a ; * -;
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:umrc , The investigation, as planned, is geared to identif.r
and render impotent, dissident groups within the SED, ~~icl ? followers
of the Fischer-r1aslow group, Brandler, Thalheimer, the ISH kfounded in
1924 by Leonhard Nelson), the SAP, the Lenin Bund, the KPC and
Luxemhurgians, Beginning November 1950, the head of the Fl.at.ry
Department of the Karl Marx Academy,,.sri:.h Paterna, receiv=d instructions
from the Pulitbt?ro to prepare a lengthy study .f the histocical role
of Ernst,'haelmann with Special emphasis on the damage inflicted upon
the KFD by the grours and factions that separated from it efore 1933.,
Cc nment. See also Max Sense article on the composition of the
Party commissions charged with the exchange of membership rooks,
Td Deutschland, 5 January 1951, page 4
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