REUNION OF GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500790181-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 181
• Publication Date: January 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR/Germany REPORT
SUBJECT Reunion of Germany
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Otto Nuschke
declared that the Kremlin has never been inclined
to resign the status quo thesis. Malenkov especially is trying to go down in
history as the keeper of the worlds peace. Above all, Moscow will not depart
from the condition that the German_question is not to be settled separately.
Peace is indivisible. In this connection Nuschke said that in its proposal of
a five-power conference Moscow acted less in the interest of Red China than in
that of a simultaneous settlement of all international problems.
3. Regarding the European Defense Union (EVG), Nuschke declared again that there
is no compromise for the Soviet Union. All Western proposals for a nonaggression
pact between Moscow and the EVG, or a neutralization of part of a Germany
united but for the rest tied militarily to the West, are beyond discussion by
Moscow. Ratification of the EVG will not be a ground for war, but signifies a ?
continuation of the existing tensions, and that is what the Soviet Union, in.the
interest of its tasks at home, does not want.
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4.
Nuschke denied that Moscow would make a separate
peace with the
Soviet
Zone
as an answer to EVG ratification. Only a peace
treaty with all
Germany
comes
into the question. A treaty of illiance with Pankow is not proposed.
Treaties
of this kind have only been made with countries
like Hungary, Bulgaria,
etc.,
with which the Soviet Union lives in a declared
state of peace, and it
will
.4100$11hUo. As a consequence of EVG ratification
there thus remains only an
increased emphasis of the sovereignty of Pankow, such as perhaps
the discontinuance
of the high commission and its replacement by an ambassador, in
which case Semenov
as ambassador would retain certain powers of control.
5. Nuschke asserted that the demand for a reunited Germany not tied to the West in
a military sense was the only condition that Moscow would require for a reunion.
The decision on the internal political and economic forms of a reunited Germany
are matters for the Germans themselves. In reply to a question he declared further
that the "democratization" of Germany, through the expropriation of monopolistic
capital, etc., was a party goal of the Socialist Unity-Communist parties, not an
unconditional demand of the Kremlin's. Naturally, Moscow understands,geographical-
ly,'a reunited Germany to-meanbaly,.thearea west of the Oder-Ueisse. It is clear in
Moscow that this boundary question will present the greatest difficulty of a four
power conference.
6.
About Soviet Zone internal political developments Nuschke upheld his former thesis
that Ulbrichtts days are numbered; that Ulbricht remains in the government and is
still official prime minister, is due to a "temporary" mission to get in hand again
the situation shaken by the popular rising of 17 Jun 53. Ulbricht has received
full power from the Soviet authority to suppress or appease the resistance to the
regime visible since the 17 June 53, by means of the new, half-hard, half-soft
policy. Wheli'this task is finished he will be reduced to a party office along
with the oldher members of the SED secretariat belonging to the government (Ziller
and Wande1).. There is, however, anxiety to avoid any appearance of this being done
under pressure of public opinion or any Western demand. As to Else Zaisser, she
has allieady retired on grounds of "health." No decision has been taken yet about
filling the two planned technical ministries.
7. Arial of Dertinger is unlikely, according to Nuschke, because he is no longer
4Marged with actual espionage. On the other hand, he expects the Hamann trial
,to take place soon, but thinks it will result in acquittal or in a light punish-
ment.
8. Finally, Nuschke said that all remaining prisoners of war in the Soviet Union,
with the exception of a few "proven murderers", would be sent home; more than
12,000 in any case. A political amnesty in the Soviet Zone raises difficulties
and can only be carried through in stages.
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