SOVIET POLICY IN GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790312-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 312
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY '
INFORMATION REPORT
tS UNTUY Germany (Soviet Zone)
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The latest Soviet note is regarded as the beginning of a groat diplomatic
peace offensivo aiming "to oblige the Western powers continuously to parry the
Msotern proposals", and thereby, first, to put them in the wrong before world
public opinion, and, second, to deepen the cleft between the United ;;totes on
one hand and France and England on the other. However, "Fruit does not ripen
in a day." Vietnam is indicated as the next stage. The object: to add to
World uncertainty about Soviet policy and intentions, create fresh political
wmsines4, and split the Western powers internally on questions of policy.
0, an tw subject of the r,.ropean Defense Council (i:DC) informant was told: SUC
Biala war. That is, It will not in itself pause war, but the ballot is openly
ileZ4 in Moscow that the world political constellation formed by 1DC sooner or
Lateir Will lead to war, and Moscow will be in danger of being dragged into it.
3. Two 11nes are ourrontly being followed, both equally serious. ? One is the
sndeavor tnwnrd a gradual simultaneous rectification of world ..onsions
.L (1. With the systematic strengthening of the military and economic
potw11t16ls of the IZast bloc (in which the Soviet Zone is Included).
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Internally the~z ine of Soviet German brotherhood is to be followed further
with the object of making the Soviet Zone Germans ready when the occasion
?s ,eee.for a brotherhood in arms. It was hoped it would be possible after
the 17 Jun 53 to draw all the insecure elements out of the national (VEB)
factories. on the contrary, new resistance centers are formed where the
sp }}~to~$ passive resistance through non-delivery and the like, daily takes
g'~tera hold. The situation in the country is in parts so strained that open
provocations" have to be reckoned with, which in given circumstances could
break out in the immediate future.
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