POLITICAL - ANNEXATION OF THUERINGEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600150187-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 187
• Publication Date: May 6, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CD NO.
INFORMAfON 1953
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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A large part of the GDR populace regards the four-gum conference [in
Berlin] as a farce at Garsuwy's expense, similar to the Potsdam and Yalta
agreements. The hope for unification, which bad been kept alire until now,
has 'melted away, because no concrete results were achieved after 3 days of
negotiations. The population entertains ideas of flight should the four-
power eonferenes fail, since it is afraid that it will become a Soviet
Satellite.
The Soviet military outposts at the &amsdor-f [possibly L.aedbrf], Burg
Renis [Thueringen], etc,, road crossing received direct telephone connections
to the Western border; these telephone lines are not onaaected with the postal
nyetai. tin the t..., the telephone network is administered by the poet offices?
The, eyoteoatic actions of the doviets iv~ this sector indicate, without a doubt,
that they Antend to apex it [T hu ringe..3.
The population along Thneringen's borders it uaderstendably worried that
the UM will soon annex their area. This 8d'tiet intention can be clearly
seen by the border preparations (laying of telephone lines, massing of troops,
t_rvp menemrnts, etc.).
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On 3 February 1:953, a military train loaded with antitank guns
and two tanks, traveled frca Rodolfstadt o ueriugenI to Neu Bukavf
Mark (in Mecklenburg). Several military trains have been run lately from
Erfurt and Wei= [in T ringen3 to the direction of Bezirk [administrative
unit replacing Laeuder3 IIal1ae.
For the past 14 days (sometime in Jsnuary or February], Soviet troops have
been moving on trucks and trains from Thueringen to Mecklenburg. They are ex-
clu Ively motorised troops, which must have been assigned a special job.
State Security Service agents in the uniform of the transportation police
are controlling and et ching railroad passea&rs on trains
The Socialist Tnity Party hsa tripled its cadre within the $eichababn for
closer control of the population.
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