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1. UPHILL MATERIAL PASSED <SANITIZED> CONSISTS OF FIVE PAGE DOUBLE-SPACED MEMORANDUM
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Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
06766019
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
U
Document Page Count:
2
Document Creation Date:
March 9, 2023
Document Release Date:
May 14, 2021
Sequence Number:
Case Number:
F-2015-02367
Publication Date:
October 18, 1960
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1. %-UPHILL MATERIAL PASSED CONSISTS OF FIVE PACE DOUBLE-
SPACED MEMORANDUM ATTEMPTING SHOW COMMUNIST EXPLOITATION OF MERTEN
DESIRE CLEAR HIS .NAME IN GERMANY. ..upPILL COMES TO CONCLUSION THAT
MERTEN PRIMARY ACTIVITIES DIRECTED AGAINST FEDREP GOVERNMENT AND SOME
OF ITS LEADING MEMBERS. SECONDARY EFFECT IS CREATE MISTRUST BY WESTERN
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ALLIES AGAINST FEDREP AND THEREBY WEAKEN WESTERN DEFENSE LE2GZE AGAINST
comnumm. AJP.RILL CHARGES MERTEN WITH DIRECT CONTACTS IN "EAST BERLIN"
WITHOUT BEING ABLE SPECIFY INDIVIDUALS.
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SOW') HEINEMANN RELATIONSHIP DATES FROM LATE 1923'S. POSSER ALLEGEDLY
IN CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS CONTACT WITH EAST ZONE OFFICIALS THEREBY
ASSISTING.COMMUNIST SUBVERSION SPD AND INFO COLLECTION FROM LEFTIST .
POLITICAL CIRCLES IN FEDREP.
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2. SECOND PART.UpRILL MATERIAL TURNED .OVER TO US CONSISTS OF GERMAN
TRANSLATION OF ARTICLE BY AKROPOLIS CORRESPONDENT DATELINED HAMBURG g
OCT. ARTICLE CONTAINS LINE VERY SIMILAR PARA ONE HAMB .1612. ARTICLE GIVES
THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTIONS OFIERTEN,HHEINEMANN, POSSER, AUGSTEIN, CHIEF
EDITOR HAMBURGER ECHO HANS HENRICH, KLAUS' AND WALTER MENZEL, AND VIKTOR
MARTZ. DOES NOT CLAIM OFFICIAL SPD INVOLVEMENT IN MERTEN CASE BUT
RATTER TRIES MAKE POINT SPD MEMBERS ALIGNED WITH MERTEN BEING
MANIPULATED BY COMMUNISTS.
3, NO ITEMS IN yPRILL:MATERIAL WHICH NOT ALREADY PUBL/SRED IN
SOME FORM. POUCHING UPHILL. FILE ALL ADDRESSEES.
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