EXCHANGE OF GERMAN AND SOVIET CITIZENS UNDER THE NAZI-SOVIET PACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R003100090006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS WF!GATION S 1 T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY USM./Germany
DATE DISTR.
SUBJECT Naahange of German and Soviet Citizens under the NO. OF PAGES 1
Nazi-Soviet Pact
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PLACE NO. OF ENCLS.
ACQUIRED (LISTED DEl OW)
DATE OF INFO. _ SUPPLEMENT ` O
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3.
i June
of the fact that any German Corununists were turned
ae to the Gestapo under the Nazi-Soviet pasta An article dealing with
this subject entitled "1;1 Puente de Bret-Litovsk" (The Bridge of Brest..
Litovsk), which appeared in the Spanish le sage newspaper qJT of 7 April
1949, was shown to source and his comments were solicited. He said thamp
although that matter was news to hi a, he had no doubt that it was based on
fact and entirely in line with the Soviet policy of opportunism and of
sacrificing, their own people if they were thus enabled to further some
desired and.
before the signing of the pact9 no one in the USSR was
m e o marry a German. After it was s& ned, there were many marriages
to Germans of persons who wished to leave the US R, in the hope that they
would be enabled to escape the country, The German Embassy was crowded with
applicants who wished to be returned to Gerrany. A large number of the
Germans as well as of their new spouses succeeded in leaving the Soviet Union
Soviet agents also were sent out in the guise of returnees,
with the siCing of the pacts Gestapo agents were lent to
We Soviet Union and taught their methods to the NXVD. On the outbreak of
war, they were sent to Siberia or to prison in other out of the way :places,
as were all persons of German blood in tha USSf[, even those two or three
generations removed from German,
CLASSIFICATION
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