USIA MAINTAINING PRESENT STATUE UNTIL FUTURE ORGANIZATION DETERMINED

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001500220005-0
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 12, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL Gi la. AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY Austria/US.
SUR.IECT USIA 1 aintainin ; Present Statue Until
Future Organiiaation Deternined
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AS O':FNEO MUCESJA7T BY INN RtCEIVING AGECCY.
DATE DISTR. 12 Tray 1948
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
USE OF TRAINED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
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A recent order Issued by Islavin, head of U"IA Central HQ, to the effect that
UrL4 will be split ur Into to series of vertical trusts with overall control
fron 1.10 scow, has now boon sucy. ended. Until the future of the organization has
been decided, USIA . dill rem in,, as before, centrally controlled fron Austria.
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2. In rursuance of this policy: the U7I:1 authorities have abandoned nenotiations
Tsfriiich they had opened for long leases on certain of the prerlisera held by then.
U'~I:1 prs ieers are being retained, and new preniaos requisitioned, on a mili-
tary baois.
3. The Trattnerhof headquarters of IT "14,9 which had been the subject of sous nego-
tiations, has nou been sirply requisitioned as t"Girr-an nmperty".
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Ccnm.ent: It has been learned that the Trattnerhof building was fornorly
the property of the Trieste 4ssicurazioni Generali, an Lta.Lian insurance coin-
pa which was tiaimn over by the G,-;i-S;-3to in 1910.
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i-ialavin is also conducting a drive to oleata up USIA personnel. Arped Haas;
Austrian *o is one of the orrnizers of the Aktionskor mr:?ittee in
the factories and adviser to USIA on personnel, has been ordered to r-move and
send home all subjects of Soviet satellite states anployed in USIA factories
and to transfer rL31 Cor inist party netnbers employed in ad.r:?inistr?tive posts
in USIA to more active posts in USIA-controlled factories. If replacerients
are reau#red, Run.t;ians will be onployed.
5. Great care is Winn taken to see that all Russians, particularly in hih r osi-
tions, who have becone infected ':Ath any foin of "capitalist corruption" are
returned to the 11M. ?
6. As of 1 Larch 19/8, Cosbanks suorended all cash credits to USIA-held factories.
No fresh replacer-ants or transfers of machinery are being made for the titer
being. -
CLASSIFICATION 51,IC 'T COI7PmL U.S. OFFICIAI/S 011?Z
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