RECRUITMENT OF MEDICAL PERSONNEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013400250001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Dr. Ludwig was away from the Ministry, in Dresden, in early June, 1952
and it was understood by senior officials of the Ministry of Health
that he would unofficially take up his Red Cross work in Dresden on
10 June 1952.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Recruitment of Medical Personnel
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
there was a confidential meeting in the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED
on 20 or 21 April. 1952; this was attended by Dr. Ludwig, Frau Jenny Matern
(Secretary of State, Ministry of Health) and representatives of the ZK.
At, this meeting it was decided to build up a German Red Cross organization
for the DDR. The structure of this organization was to be similar to that
in the Federal Republic and it was foreseen that there would be an honorary
President and. a Senior Secretary, Dr. Ludwig was appointed to the latter
post.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 795
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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Since this meeting the following has happened-
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECRET/CONTROL - U,S. OFFICIALS ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
The matter of the Red Cross was treated as Secret in the Ministry of Health.
c. Dr. Friedrich Mehlmack, head of the Medical Department of the Hauptverwaltung
fuer Ausbildung (HVA) temporarily moved into the Ministry of Health in
early June 1952 to work on personnel matters concerned with the new Red
Cross organization.
It is now believed by senior officials of the Ministry of Health, basing
their beliefs partly on Dr. Mehlmackts arrival and partly on hints dropped
by Dr. Ludwig, that the real function of the Red Cross will be to recruit
doctors, nurses and other medical. personnel who could be used by the HVA.
CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY
DATE DISTR. 29 August 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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