SED PREPARATIONS FOR ILLEGAL WORK IN WESTERN BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400530003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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)OU NTRY Germany ( Berlin) -
B JECT S Preparations for Illegal Wbrk
in Western Benin
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i_ The view is not held by higher SED officials and informed
functionaries on the SED Kreis level that the nature of party
work in Berlin will be basically changed soon. These
functionaries poin.' to the recent division of the SED and
X ?D as an example of bow the situation in Berlin will develop.
They expect a clear distinction between the normal SED pa ?ty
work in the Soviet Sector of Berlin and the work to be dune
in the western sectors. This distinction will be forced by
.an outlawing of the party In the western sectors. All
necessary ini.t:l.al ?ar parat ions for illegal work in the
western sectors have bee.u made, particularly in the selection
of pe so rel . 5n Lanue.svc rs i,and of the SED will be able
tmmed_I.ately to deinga tee as tignments to party members who
are known to be reli ?b"e-: ua has already selected safe
houses and clandestine meeting and storage places. The
, andesvorstand's et~ef tc on the western sectors is demon-
strated by its unwili'i.ngnars to allocate money or supplies
to the: One functionary said on this point: "When a
business man sees his bus0ess going broke, he naturally
doesn't throw more Loney into its"
2 The considered opinion amov informed functionaries is that
on going underground the S :D membership in the western sectors
will fall at once to five or ten per cent of its present
strength. The loss in n=.xnbers will be compensated for,
he wever, by more intensive and efficient work tan is
possible with the present cumbersome party organization,,
m The first measures of the illegal party work will be;
ae Intensive propaganda on a nationalistic line, stressing
unity, freeiom, reconstruction, and the two-year plan,
and the "colonial politics" of the Western Powers.
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