1. DERAILMENT OF A TRAIN 2. PARTISAN UPRISING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001800320003-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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a train, travelling between Brest and Yrankfurt/Odes,
was derailed by Polish partisans. Eberswalde has received no cigarette shipments
from the USSR. since 15 June, allegedly as a result of disrupted rail traffic in
Poland.
An uprising broke out in Poland about 19 June. Partisans came out into the open,
joined by Germans who are still residing in Silesia. Some Soviet soldiers
defected to the partisans. Special units were called in from the USSR to hunt
down the partisans. Katowice, Bytan (Beuthen), and Gliwice.(Gleiwitz) are under
martial law..
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1. Derailment of a Train
2. Partisan Uprising
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This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
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CENTRAL, INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Uncertainty in SED Central Committee
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1. A sgheduled meeting of the Central Committee of the SED was twice post-
poned during the week of 5-li July 1953. The reason given is that no
directives had been received and that members of the Committee were
away on agitation tours.
2. Individual members of the Central Committee are refusing to make any
comments on the fall of Lavrenti P. Beriya, until the party line is made
clear to them. The SED organ Neues Deutschland has limited its coverage
of the matter to the reprinting ova- raavvc`a article and TASS bulletins.
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for the Russian zone is the subject of general conversation.
there is little talk in East Berlin about
the Beriya case. On the other hand, the Soviet refusal of American aid
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N eue ei ung of 12 July.
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