PRE-BERLIN CONFERENCE DEVELOPMENTS - II

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• Publication Date: January 8, 1954
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
8 January 1954
PRE-BERLIN CONFERENCE DEVELOPMENTS - II
official that the embassy is making considerable preparations
for Austrian treaty negotiations at Berlin, and attaches
great importance to them. At least one member of the embassy
will attend the Berlin conference, and there have been pub-
lished reports that Ambassador Ilichev will be there. Various
Soviet officials in Vienna have hinted within the last two
weeks, however, that an Austrian treaty is still dependent
on a German settlement and that agreement on an Austrian
treaty at Berlin is improbable.
A high SoVi a embassy official in enna has o an American
Soviet embassy in Vienna preparing for Austrian talks:
USSR allegedly favors a study of unification:
lat the-Berlin conference the
USSR will propose that an inter-allied commission "study"
German reunification, A Soviet maneuver of this type is not
unlikely, but probably would be used only after a stalemate
had developed.
I I the East German government
propose, probably before the conference, separate elec-
tions in East and West Germany for two parliaments, and that
a third, all-German parliament be chosen either in the same
elections or by the new parliaments. A proposal along this
line would not strictly conform to the past Soviet position
that a provisional government must be formed prior to elec-
tions, but without a stipulation for truly free elections
it would not represent a compromise;
USSR adamant at reliminar Berlin meeting:
25X1 e ov a elegate at the
preparatory mee ing in er in i not agree to have the con-
ference in the former Allied Control Authority building in
West Berlin nor to a proposal to hold three out of four
meetings in the Western sectors.
This move is not surprising as an initial bargaining
position and may reflect a Soviet desire to use all issues
which may postpone a debate on the German and Austrian problems,
State Dept. review completed
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