REESTABLISHMENT OF ZONAL CONTROLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004201150003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Austria
SUBJECT Reestablishment of Zonal Controls
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DATE DISTR. 1 T =e 1954
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3.
establishment of zonal controls, in all probability
the Soviets will re-establish such controls in the near future.
Soviet com hints a ainst the in erne policy o e
Austrian Government on the question of re-
these controlswill be similar to those in effect
f
Soviet attitude toward the question of controls is a series of recent
defections of Soviet personnel in Austria and an increase in the number
.of successful escapes into Austria, and thence into Western-controlled
territories,,, by satellite nationals from Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
formerly but will be more stringenta The reason for the change in the
Communist Party,, instead of assisting the Soviets in apprehending refugees
from satellite countries, actually assisted these persons in their flight
from Soviet-controlled -areas
as early as January.1951,a disturbing development from-the Soviet point
of view was the fact that on many occasions members of the Austrian
4. Despite this changed attitude on the part of the Soviets
the Soviets would respect the-present arrangement whereby Austria is
officially ? garded as an independent country with a central government
ofitson.
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the inability of the Soviets to rely on any important segment of.the
Austrian populationin maintaining internal control, and the resulting
deterioration of the Soviet position there,- makes it imperative that-measures
be taken to allow. direct Soviet control over the internal situation and,
especial,ly,.,over the movement of Austrian and other nationals between the
Soviet an&Western Zones,
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