TRANSFER OF SOVIET AND GERMAN OFFICES FROM BERLIN TO SAXONY AND THURINGIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800230011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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..' CENTRA INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO,
INFORMATION REPORT CD NOa
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Transfer of Soviet and German Offices
from Berlin to Saxony and Thuringia
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la n June 1950,,
representatives o the IIVDVP made a trip through Thuringia in order
to look for suitable quarters for the Staatlicher : icherheitsdienst
(State "Security Service) (SSD) of the German Democratic Republic, and
for the former K-r5 Section of t La Soviet gone Police *
the Aerations
Division a the Soviet occupation forces Teas located-with the SCC in
;ieir, r (U 51/J 57)? Leipzig (rd 521B 21) or eimar was re )orted
selected as the prospective seat of U. A section of the
former K.5 Department, WiI.helmsruh, has been transferred to
Jueterbog (N 52/E 69), Klosterzinna (N 53/E 69) and Kirchbain
(N 52/A 05).
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as part of a reorganization program which has been under
way for several m nbhs the SCC has (Lifted a number of important offices
from 13erlira Karlshorst to Halle (U 52/D 92). In order tc; nrovide suitable space
for the offices which have been transferred a great number of buildings
and a considerable amount of necessary equipment :.u j oPeaj_v nave ae z
confiscated in Valle. It is reported that plans have boon made_to trans-
fer the entire headquarters of the Soviet occupation forces to IIalle0
It has been said that this transfer is being accomplished because the
Soviet offices in the area of Berlin are too oxoosod to the intelligence
gathering activities of the.',estorn intelligence or&anizations operating
from ;lest Berlin. Both the TIGB and the Razvedka Sovetskoi Armii (I.ntolli--
gence service of the Red Array) (RSA) are to be transferred aa' are per-
haps already being shifted. Similarly the government of the German. Darao-
cratic Republic has begun, to transfer important ru.nistrios from Perlin
to Leipzig. For example, the I.inistry of State.Security and the I.Iinistry
of the Interior, in addition to some unidentified central administrative
agencies, are said. to have already been transferred to Leipzig. This
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tends to indicate that the future seat of the govern ao it of the
German Democratic Republik. may be Leipzi;a The reasons for this measure
re,)ortodl;y are the same as those vthich influenced the Soviets.
3, On 19 April 1950, a man was arrested in Sebniiz by several police
officials wearing civilian clothes. Two Tt,ussians in civilian clothes
wore allegedly in the group of these police officials. The officials
to ;ether with the man arrested left the scene in two cars which had
Thuringian licence plates. Two Soviet officials searched the house
of the ran arrested on 5 F'ay 1950. It is knot n that the arrest as ue11
as the house search was ordered b;; an office in Thuringia, probably
in ';oimar, aebnitz on the other hand is located in Saxony?
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Me o transfer of offices oo te-r,re-rman
Democratic Republic had been planned as early as December 1949.
Though postponed a number of tines this transfer will now be carried
out, T7uhnke is reported to have good connections in the Land Brandon-
burg rii.nistry of the Interior,
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Zone of Gem . Its missions were taken over by the nistry for
State Security and its organs.
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po zei uni .oroitschaften before the Bereitschaftspolizei was assigned
to the ilauptvarwltung fuor Ausbildung (Training Department). No in-
fors:sation is available on his present accignment.
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