Doc Ref ID: A4274867 } DATE: 10/08/98 | PAGE: 1 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : NSA RECORD NUMBER : 144-10001-10278 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : NSA FROH : NSA TITLE ; EAST GERMAN PARTY. REPORTS ON REACTIONS TO DEATH OF US PRESIDENT ne DATE : 11/26/63 PAGES : 6 SUBJECTS : ASSASSINATION, JOHN KENNEDY DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : = RESTRICTIONS : 1B CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/24/98 OPENING CRITERI ORIGINATING AGENCY’ § DETERMINATION REQUIRED COMMENTS : DRV FM: NSA/CSS Manual 123-2 Dated: 24 February 1998 Re DECL ON: X1,X3,X5,X6,X7,X8
Doc Ref ID: 4274867 26 Novy 63 ‘L. EAST GERMAN PARTY REPORTS ON REACTIONS TO DEATH OF US PRESIDENT Reports of 23 November sent by radiotelephone from Hast Gesman Seesalist Unity Party (SED) head- | (ART /OC¥ /R284-63 } quarters in three of the fourteen admin= | istrative Giatriets im Eaet Germany have noted initial reastions 4n Bast Germany to the 22 November assassination of President | Kennedy. Extracts from these reports follows Kank Hare Sted’, 0345 §S% 23 November | Rash infomation Feport. ‘me: Assassination of US President Kennedy. "Agcoxding to a report from Kreis (sounty] headquarters Brand-Erbisadorf, streamers of black erepe were displayed this evening in the Kreis City im connection with the aseassination of the Prosident of the United States. ‘tia 19 concentrated im particuler on two thoroughfares . “Srape wae likewise Gisplayed in the show window of the OST (4.0., Sosiety for Sport and Technology] Released on 10-26-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
Doc Ref ID: A4274867 26 Nov 63 on the show windows at the reiigoazd station, on the board on Bahnhofstrasse, on a wooden door at the railread station, in the waiting rocem of the Reichsbahn, and in the witing room of the WEB "tm addition t® this, worker Merkel from Brand-Erbiasderf’ flew the DOR (41.e., German Demo- eratie Republic] flag with red, white, and blue bunting this morning. Responsible comrades held Giseussion with him, — "Tn Karl Marx Stadt epposite the YES Weborete Ausruestung wae smeared in white of2 paints "Hast Germany mourns fer Kennedy." A aimilar slogan was placed opposite the Council ef Kries Karl Marz Stadt Rurad o "Celieague Naumemn of the PGH [4.e., Producers Coop- erative for Handicraft] Frieeure, Ossietzky Strasse, declared: "The wed did 16; there will be a world war for sure. °" |
Doc Ref ID: A4274867 26 Nov 63 Suhl, 0600 ESt,23 Nevenber | Generally the workers in the (Suhl) Boziste (districts) were of the opinien that President Kennedy wee muxiored because he we a supporter of peace; because he was one of the first te Sign | the Moscow (test-ban} treaty; and beceuse he took steps against racial discrimination in the United States. Many workers had arrived at the sone2usion that the aseasaination was carried out by racial fanatics, Ameng older residents of the Reziris, the murder of Kennedy vas cemparad te the ascassi~ nation of Arshduke Perdinand in Sarajeve, There Were alge these who were worried about the new President, Jehnsen, and hew he wil2 act teward the question ef relaxation of tensions, peace, and racial diserimination, an the last fow hours, effects ef the elass ‘antagonists’ activity have aliseady become evident. Frere has been further disoussien to the effet that the murder wae committed by Cenmuniste. in “7nise report is available in sumary form only.
~ Doc Ref ID: A4274867 — « eeRned that these and simi ler By 26 Nev 63 Lauseha, Kreis Neuhaus am Reanweg, several resie dents atated that the asgagsin Spent many yeara in the USSR, stayed next in Cuba, and then was gent te the US with the missien te kill Kennedy. earned in discussion at the places cen- Weetem broadcasts, and sueh argements were them= selves evidenes that these poopie aLevened to Western stations. coLleaguo U Wirdieh n Hote, likewise from the - ghapyara, technical control, said: "Por me it's Lncomprehensible that semething like this can happen in a country. £¢°s my opinion that this ean only be by forces unich were against Kennedy's govermental reform.’ Hemuann Rieck, a wolder at the Peene Shipyard and member of the CODY [Christian Demesratic Union}. |
~ Doc Ref ID: A4274867 Pry, 26 Nev 63 ‘pointed out: "It's sorrowful that such things as the assassination of the President occur An the se-ealied country with the unlimited possi-  pLLacies. ° ttre agsassination vas discussed right at the start of work-day with the colleagues and comrades from the ¢rade organizetions of the Kreis Wolgast enterprises, and 1% was generally stated that it's shocking that in the USA the President was aseassi-o nated and a stateeman 4s pushed aside in such a“ gay. Colleague Regina Dahike from the trade organization Fetolaber Wolgast especially expreas- ged her extrema indignation over such & thing. | Comyade Bruno Wetzel frem the Department of Labor ef the Yeb Holzbau Wolgast io of the opinion thas Kennedy had become troublesems for seme people be- eause he had to advecate evan more the policy of peaceful soexistence, due to public pressure, and on the basis of the peace offensive of the Soviet Uniien. And this @idn't agveo with seme people.
Doc Ref ID: A4274867 26 Nov 63 That Kennedy took such a stand did not sult some pight~wing military circles in the USA, especially with regard to the Cuba question. Now, it 49 ¢o be foared that, with Jehngon taking over as Prose ident of the United States, the world at large has to suffer, in that new contacts have to be made again sothat the peliey of peaceful eoexLstenee ean continue .*