INFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000900410001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
25X1
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its tr&nslp.ission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT NO. 25X1 A
SUBJECT Information and Propaganda Services DATE DISTR. 20 April 1953
COUNTRY East Germany
25X1 C
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. 'RD
REFERENCES
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Representatives of the East German government and of the Soviet information
services are'said to have made an agreement in Moscow on, 19 Deoembei 1952
under which the TASS agency was to take charge, as of 1 January 1953, of all
the information and propaganda services of the,3D.RD including the ADN and
the Office for Information." This would leave the DAR government dependent
for its information on TABS, over which it has no control,
2. This agreement led to the abolition of ;the Office of Information as such;,
although some of its services, of a formal or semi-official nature,# were
continued. by the Press Office of the Minister President, under the super-
-vision of Dr'o Fritz Geyer. The ADN will become a branch office of TASS,
headed by Mrs, Deba Wieland until a representative of T&SS arrives from
Moscow. Services of "general. political propaganda" and of information
control, and public-opinion surveys, previously part of the Office for!
Information, will be put under the Central Committee of the BED,
3o A commission appointed to execute the agreement will settle personnel
questions arising from the changes. It is reported that 26 employees''
of the ADN and 187 employees of the Office for Information had been dis-
charged up to the end of January 1953.
4. These changes are supposed-to have been made because of dissatisfaction
with the "propaganda work done hitherto by the Office for Information, and
because of the fear of a repetition of certain cases when important infor-
mation leaked out to the West, presumably from the Office for Information,
Security considerations became all the more significant with the growing
strength of the East German army and with the increased probability of the
ratification of the defense treaties in Bonne
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