COMMUNIST AGITATION AMONG UNEMPLOYED LABORERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400330004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CIO he unemployed are subject-, of a skillfully
conducted Coi iL7un.ist propa a,,-;,and,,,,. c~at,.~aai a x;raJ
aL;cnts A mostly yours rmen, talk to the unemployed,,
'ter F3 f;rou F for dlscu slon and taro those tho
stand by to continue the conversation in nearby
restcurant"s a They entertain tlhc..~ and shova? the m
the cl-iusos for the aunori ploynent whichh, they say
lie in the advance ? .r.1c~rlcr.ra monopoly capl?'
talism, in systematic gffor e to make Gcrr:acny a
colony of slaves mild prccone erted attempts to
brln dawn the ~vak;es by eniarc~,in- the army of the
unemployed
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b. ho agitators then duel F,-a e tha-at only the i??PD
is in a position to remove unemployiment 0 Only this
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CONFIDENTIAL In accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
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Germany (Amnricam Zone)
Communist Agitation Among
Unemployed Laborers
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o It was repeatedly reported that the Car munist
Party of ccr any (Y 'D) conducts a systexuatic
propaganda campaign among unemployed workers
rho go on unonplo n ent relief and must report
to the -,'r^nikrurt`:T-'rlabor offices taw,ico a
week.
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party really cares for the unemployed while the
ocia .-Deiaocratic Part of Germany y t -:p/ and the
labor unions stand for the unemployed only for
form's sake.
c a One of the U D functionaries in charge of the
agitation among the unemployed allegedly is, Albert
Letsch, a labor office off'i.cial who was barn
16 eptember 1912 in xIrankfurt/- in and lives at
1 ~ a1ffei ns~,rase:od Letsch formerly was public
prosecutor at the denazification tribunal as a
K D delegate and also was a Co amunist municipal
councillorb lie resigned this position when he
became section leader in the labor office. Letsch
is also said to see that KPD members are given
employment along KPD lines. Ketsch is in contact
with Franz Roellg head of the residance permit
section of the Frankfurt/gain housing office.
Roell acts as liaison man between the IC?]) and
the housing office.
There are indications that Roell forwards to the
KPI) District Board in Frankfurt/Main information
acquired through his activity in the housing office.
He was born 8 September 1898 in Frankfurt/Mains
lives at 26 Flensburgerstrasse, Frankfurt-Eckenheim
and was a bookkeeper before he was employed by
the labor office,
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