STAFF OF THE OSTERREICHISCHE VOLKSSTIMME

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000190004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 24, 1947
• Content Type: IR

POLICY D1, : CTION.
sari;b d as very a,nte.Lugent, polite, ,and agreeable.
Ott A,,tor have the greatest influence on policy.. :.pie is de- ?
i eu at ine ? earl ;4r meeting. Of the three
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U 2 i_me ~, fficea- and issues ingtruet ,aaas to.h .s staff _
Pgg?Isse`, tollow1ug which Zucker-S th li .n?g returns o th
3 $t 4 They i eet at the VVaLfiJA,iniis`J' Vd,1l.ices inf tim..~w
-; an or the E1.0, Friedi Faruber , first ecretary of the
Daily editorial policy for:, the central organ of the. rsus-
trian Com unist Party, the Gsterreiohische Volksstimme
r, Lu aanaiuerea an. aoJ.e writer and is author of most -
Of t4 e, Vol k63 im met-a_ ixaportarit articles on ecoznnmi_c: 11h_
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meetings, Dr. Arpad Haas and Dr. Ludwig aoswinsk 7:erty
'economic expert, are. occasionally invit.(-' ;:, to. sit in as
_ Vhen economic. questions, come up for discussion at no l
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at the- Soviet Legation in Vienaa and txe ?t;ises supervision
Lyssin (or Lissin) acts in the capacity of rrASS At;t a^hA
Foliowing are. personalities on the edito:l?f al staff of the
yolks ttme.
(alias Zacker-80h )
in-Chief.. Paradisgasse 51/4, Vie.,ina X: n
Erwin pucker, an .ustrian citizen, was born on 15 A o.st
_ 1903 in Vienna. fie learned the trade of a laeehanic, but
never used this skill.. He joined the Cc . auni st. 'arty in,
his youth.and worked as a journalist, cap-,,Ang into cons lic t
with the .law on numerous oocasicins. He .;Lsited Moscow
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sevorul tin--s .;,nd was associ..tvd -.iitii Jorui::r :ind i:.opieni .
In 1923 he .w :;itii trve:scn by :iustrian uutiiori-
ties, but nothin- scei.is to a:avu ca::+ of tiiis. .,fill abr.,ud
.juc kor l1:3: th. of ;chillin3. .,iaenuvur returned
to Vicnnz, from 1iG al-;:uys travc:l1::d vi:A aiurliri, ti,here
;se stay d :it .,lcx:.:nd.sr.,tra:3si: 25.
yr,
It is rc;)ortod . tat Uuct:er ~:~~E;at:.Jrt:d ti: v;-,r s .rs in ..:oseorr
11th i isc:lor, ...d ..'.y aavc diruet .:d r:.:dio b'o;:.C;Cast:S to .+.ua-
tri-a under thu nann, -f Franz iCilillia ,. huES :i:r :;as (A`uCted
to the Central Coruaittou of t.1e on _ 1.9 ... .s )ril 19,16, and
is Ito -)rea:adviser. _fto is said to be a of Ilya
hhrE n::urnn, -nd is also beliuvod to :lave had d(;alin,3 of arl
il.:ibi'~uous n. tu_? .:itli -iofr.%t giber of fife Valks_ rtei )re. s,
.:,uc.:ar vas the co-.. erei:al director of tile; Globus Vert:;,; un-
til ree:;i}tly, -..'hen t.l t position teaa3 ton over by )r. :icin-
rich I:a 1 r.
uucker is 3t ;)ru_,(rlt livin.. '.iith 11 u Lorc.;ui Barbara
nr:e Koch (it i,, not known whether t:.uy z :....z?rie after
t:~cir divorc:; in 1939 or 19:3')) and z; i four-yu.rr-old son at
p rad13gas3e 51. Until rec..ntly `tiiuy lived in luxury -,nd
entaart..i: d r.i_.ny ..u ;5ts (_.1l Uo,,x.uni3ts) , but of i i e they
so 1--m to :i?iv.: roduc::ad their seine of livirng. ;it:;; ar: on
vory ^ tovns .:ith th :.o :f1uni3t 'olio . Vic:. :'rc::aid:;nt _
,it,'obl, 1:;tio live; in tho ua_ houa::.
Dr. :jic; -fried Klausn,- r
:o rita ,
local a itor of Vol ::sstis'nu a 1u . ,d i t or of 'o .nbla tt a--,, -'o
Vereinsr,.:ase .12/153 Vienna II.
:i journalist by ?rofession, Klauoncr is ra:xrri d but :::z:s no
ciii1da? ;r.. i'rior to 19 8 ho editor `.adi . arager of Telc
. tile, luadiri,_; ViE?un., ~.vc,nin , a)er. c.rir., this tL.ie
;io viau a ,.iocial-L:;_ ocrat, .Nell ..no.?n or :1i3 unti-hazi vicars
and nc.:o.l:; )C r editorials. Upon tilt'o, a nu;l_ation of .,uotria
he .,as forced to floe c; it i his ,...ifQ to avoid intcrn:..xit.
j.11 'l1s )ro_)erty v:as tant for the York 0?erl.ian-xirierican. ,c
nov ''Jork3 for Globus Y::rla au is, also a i..Er:lUt r of t 1w
Vol'_sstf'y editorial staff. ii'rei in ti(: r:n.is
of the ;,t~U ?
I;ax G ur u
It is rorported t;izt Guru is ..ditor-min-C:;ief of the Coi nu.nist
pati' ers Dic tedou1ie :1r;Ci t_iv cri...;r,onic Dcr
--uitor ems thc !-"? ..tt ::...- .-olita err.l,r Uh f -,ditor of
the .dencir iovuc, lnd Gulturui -.ditor of the Volksati;:u.ie.
Urtti z'c Guru .. was onr_i:od in the illy a . ubla. $m.n.- of the
();;te?'reichisca r neobachte,r and ?::eue, it! ,
He served in" t %w' i'ti an rc rw;t~ Turing he near and became a
er.if2unist _lftcr c n ptu:r.?e of Vienna. Ed, w is thirty-two yea]
a Ic r::ian na L Lana' from Munich,, rind the on of a Hamburg
old 2%
o2era liner.
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ilul:l lic.1J t,JV~ili ~..:U.lti lc.:a 1~:7 the YV_L1?~:.i:7t.~.a .Lit t iiuc1:rsker. lie
ruturn.,cA fro.-: ustr,3li z in 146 :pia livos in a rvr0 board-
in houNC .
horbs_r, a fori.i~.r Kraft .)urch Frou(Ic :1tr:ibei?, is the official
cartoonist and stri,x:Jrlter of the Krli, ju., only on., Oyu.
Korber .as ):.,inted a .ortr :it c r:onL,v. u fry:.-,aoxLt ~?-)viot
lea;a : ua rter;; in Vi onn:. _an"' is .. i t l ::ax
Guru.
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alu_?~arin is t:i., :.ia is critic of t:i . Volkstir: niz otile r
Co:;inunist )ublication.,, fo _.::r ;di por t ien';r : (;vue,
a--W sub-.:c;itor of Die tedoutu. iC ;'1ori:. ci or u .c: tile
fir~2 in unt 1?~7, carie buck to _:ustria and on
the Iron Cross (1st class) on. t! .,o front during;
star. Hu is a ,.ioderute- Co-inuniot :.:rid rlovos in intel-
lectual and social circles for thu r'arty. Irothur of
-::in .,aldriann.
yrz,in Jaldrnann
It is reported that :.rwin . uld3ann is the o:.nur of t:,,; Go::t-
r'?uriis t `fhcater an _Irator sterri, L:iiien -.:33 lain by Ate
t;o.ir.tuni:st .'arty Co: nittee of t:;le II. 3ezirk. fie; pl,-_yo tile
toady to .uckor-ochillinr..
roachiri Dr :n :r
Olzoltrasse 1, Vicn...a ill
-Jre-aur is said to be uu:i)1oyud by tiie Intern::tion;:1 :.au':s
rvice. ..e boasts t_"at he aecur,eej, b d sm.issal of h s
first (anti-uoviot) ou:>arior. its connections
:1ith the i sterraic.lisc,::; c na s file ar of a nun-
b~er of 'tuns yin ofi.eers.
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docusu::t contains information
affW"W fr'i national defense of
the Uni Metes within the mean-
ing of the h ge Act, 50, U .S .C .
31 and 32 as ame Its trans-
mission or the revels of its
contents in any manner to
unauthorized person is prohib
by law;
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