POLICE TRAINING IN FURSTENWALDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001900830001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 18, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

This document is hereby re
CONFIDFN `1 AL,4p I$eQ Foth
Diecotor c' Central intelligence .'.'
A.-c;:1ivisi :.; the United States.
SUBJECT Police Training in Frstenwalde
Dcaumer;t No.
25X1pt
ACQUIRED
stbout four or five thousand former prisoners of ~,ar are currently
receiving, i;olice training in the barracks of the former Resettle-
reie:n.t C(Ume iedlerlager) at Filrstenvaalde. The ma*ority of these
men were formerly members of the 'Free Germany Committee (`Tationa:l-
komite Fries Deutschland) in the USSR, and were returned to Germany
within the past six months. The courses are also attended by three
ree pr senti) tiv s from each of the rand i i,stries of the interior in
the Soviet zone.
2. The instruction is given by German and Lussian "? E,rs.on~'el. It is
bath theoretical and r ractical. The training scv ool ha.s extensive
facilities, including a firing range, motor pool, and armory.
0 3. 7During the week of 13 September the Fdrsten ^, lde school was inspected
Z v- b Walter. Ulbricht and Franz Dahlem. On this occasion 11lbricht gave
p a spy-ech grit', approximately the following content:
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police of the ,s
O The .:tern Sane is. being completely reorganized.
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past) tch will be capable, possibly without
the assistance of .Cn occupying power, of protecting the achievement
of the zone to date and also of securing the further development of
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The police will have to assume the tasks which are now done through
the authority of the Soviet 1Lir.my. .`he planned reorganization will
be carried out with the assistance and advice of the Soviet authorities.
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