STRIKE OF SHIPYARD WORKERS AT WARNEMUENDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002200250031-6
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: September 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S.Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY East German r
SUBJECT Strike of Shipyard Workers at
Warne= .uende
REPORT
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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A general strike in sympathy with the,East Berlin strikers ccmmnenced at.0~10O hrs on
18 June, and lasted until the night of 19 June. Within a very short timea 3,000
Soviet troops and over 200 VP troops, consisting of several officers from the VP
School in Rostock were placed on board all ships undergoing repair, and at all
strategic positions in the yard. A machine g= post was set up at the entrance
to the yard and, up to 20 June,, all sentries, as well as the machine gun post, were
still in position.
2. Minister Bernd Weinberger in charge of the Generaldirektion Schiff ,was sum-
mowed by telephone to Wamemuende on 18 June to pacify the strikers,, but he had
no success. Throughout the strike the demonstrators showed only passive re-
sistance, except for the tearing down of Party notices and posters. A few shots
were fired into the air by the troops., but. as far as can be ascertained there
were no casualties.
About:60 arrestswere made on 19 June, and amongst those arrested was a 30-year
old welder,, th6 son of a man called Fritz Dahlem,, and, according to rrmi.or, he
was probably shot on 20 June as an example to the other demonstrators. Workers
were forced by the'Soviete to return to work on 20 June, but now show Tory little
interest in their employment. Minor acts of sabotage, main3y directed against
electrical installations and piping on board the reparations ships are still being
carried out, as trell as general passive resistance.
The SSD has introduced large numbers of informers as welders., firemen etc,, on
board the ships to help trace the saboteurs..
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STATE ARMY NAVY X I AIR FBI 3r I
11 September 1953
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