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Xohebe July 52. German Abwehr, outside of the regular East German Forces, Its exavt mature is hard to assess, Since, while it is completely German, it nevertheless is part of the Red Amy, and covers the whole of West Europe plus certain areas of North Africa, This new service, which works with huge sums of money - and which obviously has been under preparation for a long time - is under the commend of German General Bamler, an old officercof German Intelligence in World War II and knom to have been one of the ablest men in the Service, Its efficiency should not be underestimated, The fifth fact is, that the so-called four fold filing which has existed in several crucial points, has now been removed in several places farther inside the Soviet areca, This four-fold filing is as follows : on every person within the scope of So~ viet interest, and this scope today extends to app®oximately 15% of the total population of the_still free countries, a so~ called caracteristic has been made, a mass of filed facts plus an almost psycho-analysis of the person, But this is not done by ome man alone, On each person four Agents, not knowing of. each other, have been put in charge to make a full report, Hence ~ every person is fully studied, From these four independent reports a fifth person, unconnected with the previous ones, makes then up the full picture of the person, which thereafter is checked by another one against the person itself. If all agree, then the picture and caracteristiec is filed by MVD, and the person is completely known and observed, For instance the filing in Vienna. covers thoroughly almost 600.000 people. This tremendous picture, which covers France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, the Benelux Countries, Seandinavia, and to a lesser degree the Iberic Peninsula was concentrated in several places, among them Vienna, Berlin, Leningrad. Now all these files have been moved from these cities, or are being moved to secret country ioca~ 7 tions far ther inside the Soviet realm - far away írom towns where they might be the victim of bombs. ő ; Finally the sixth fact is the economic policy of the USSR. The drive on the Satellite countries to increase the output of their heavy industry, especially of their armament industyy is universally noted in each one of these countries. sg is true in every one of the European Satellites, since it is the consequence of centralized orders, These orders are different | from ;,previous ones sinve they do not so much insist on the fulfiliment of the plan. Under these fulfikiments, it was usual in satellite countries to work hard towards the end of the period, . to over=produce, but not to care about quality. Now the main in= sinstence is on first class quality and on a stready flow of goods rather than on the fulfillment of records. In the same spi6.