NEW EVIDENCE OF DISCORD WITHIN THE SED

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 26, 1947
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CENTRAL I TELL~GE CE GROUP
INTELLIGENt~r.:: REPORT
COUNTRY GWEWW (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT New Evidence of Discord within 4e MD
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D'ST. 39 Septem4 1947
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1. There has er: some discord .!Hong leaacr?s of the SED on t1l:c: subject
of Wilhelm Pieck's frequent appearanct,s as speaker at pu` lie meet-
ings and assemblies in the Berlin disrricts; cn one such occasion
o (D (08 collapsed and was carrieuit out uncoiisclous. Ackermann Mated
t at it is the duty of the i" entral. Secretariat of the party to
ep him from overstrainin? his lhea:.th,, to which %-niffke and Dahlem
_eplied that Pieck had snot :n at hi: own express a=:sire, 'persons
4cquai.nted with the trend cf' affair. in SED circles :air In that
he radical wing of the SE' which :l s led by UlbrichL, w Id wel-
~, ? ome an illness which might serve ti: prevent Pieck fro!. tending
N o he coding party conventic f,. It wa f' anticipated that t dtisagree--
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ent between these to factions of ' l;he party would coke 'L-.o the
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? w Q pen at the convention, pa:~I icularl-' on the question of - bloc
E z o o -i.cy; the lef'.t wing of t..i SED holds that the time L fie ~'r;r
C) w '* he exclusion of th(:~ bourget i ~ parties from all par t icip :Lon iii
o p o
u`. > stern Zom pcl t.Yics. Thl~ group further advocates this'. the
o ussian Zone jo:tn the easte:c:i hatlons and the Soviet Ursi~. it aban-
Q _ Q ? oning the struggle for the .nity of Germany, which now :k~:eflas to
be a lost cause. it demands a more definite offensive ak;.inst the
SPD and sharply criticizes tl, Be.din policy of the SED, which,
it asserts, is too fluctuatif i...
2. An unusually controversial mcc'd. h.= s prevailed at SED cou;ity con-
ventions in the Russian Zone Uu i nt borough conventions .,k Berlin;
even the 0 nti'al. Committee o the i- arty is surprised at ,he discon-
tent In the party rartis. At i conrention in Beinickendo. n' serious
trouble was barely a".oided w._!-n an attempt was made to ra,Erise
forty-three resolutions condo minx; the conspicuous behavior and
mode of life of par";,y leader.. I.13stllity to the SED, as ,he party
responsible for existing cor itions, is rapidly i.ncreesf. ,; in the
Uastern ine; and, since there is ~.o hope for an impr; ve ).ant of these
conditions becaus ; of the co !.tinted d:? smantlings and the oor har-
vest,. SED leader; fear -feat their pew zonal security may be threatened.
3. At the conventio -t in Beinict:endcrf the neD Sokolovsky order on
denazification uurs also di-so-ssed. Several ;QIegates pl.-Posed
yt/h~aet /~ the leftist grouf^psln resot-t to terroristic ry , measures In order
to com.Nat the n uA? czrovth of 1l-a r~Y clsm and reactions .4, iosolution
was passed at 1; e convention to Prenzlauer Berg;, providing for
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the maintenance of close connections with the basic uni?3 of
the other antifascist parties, the S PD, the LDP, and th^ CDU,
in the fight against Naziism.
The central Secretariat of the SED has been varned by the S;:iA
that insufficient progress is being made in the rertern zones
and that every means must be employed to recruit follow'4rs and
to obtain legalization of the party in those parts of GF~rmany.
Ulbricht's trip to Frankfurt.em L ain was made in connec` i.on with
this. At the moment the main subjects of SED interest `fn the
westc-rn zones are the crisis between the SPD and the CD1J in
Bavaria and the Buhr conference. One of the editors of eu
utsch1and, Klaus Huhn, zes sent to the Ruhr area as a special
reporter in order to accompany the "'ashington conference with
corresponding articles.
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affecting the national def Era se of the
United Ste tea within the meaning of
the Espionage Act 50, U.S.C. 31 and
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manner to an unauthorized i,?rson is
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