DEVELOPMENTS IN USIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200230004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 15, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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CLASSIFICATION
COUNTRY Austria/bSSR
SUBJECT Developments in USIA
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The following report concerns developments in UrIA since the return from
Moscow on or about 6 Decenber 194 of Malavi3t, head of USIA Central Head-
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to After 1Wav1n.l s first staff r^eetins*, Yefimov, chief of the German Property
Division, confined previous in.tractions that work in his division be di-
rected toward uncovering "easily accessible values". lie stated that the
Gerr:an Property Division vas no loner concerned with & all ratters. Yefi-
mov is a--parent].y attempting to uncover an poscible leads to profitable
clams. le requeoted an estimate etatini how much t It uIll be necessary
to alloy to com-rlete the work on all cases n.]w pendin Cam:
About 3,500) and was informed by the Austrian real estate expert that the
project would consume about five months. It is not known whether or not
the estimate was satisfactory to Yefimov.
2. -~alavin requested the following from the Vienna i section of the German
Property Division:
a. A list of all firms in Vienna I with part German ownership.
b. Amounts owed-to German creditors by various firms in Vienna I.;
c. A 1. of the fires whose status as German Property has been changed
c ae : Austrianised) through Austrian Government action.
3. The Soviet director of Brown Boveri has been appointed director of sierrens-
Schuekert and nor functions as plant director of both these concern..
C1,+ tom: This in an example of the trend toward a reduction of the nur- rya o
Soviet C"I:l pla
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rectors,
4. Since early December 194, Soviet technic!ana examining German airplane parts
stored in I' 'IA ten"hr,rmQ ewe ..,a L_-- -
-t y. ?~ -v wvU a 4;vup Gin!; To collect par
for use in assembling conrlete planes. : Informant claims he
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observed several such planes being assembled at Fischamend. This attempt
to salvage planes confirmathe present USIA trend toward the liquidation of
all ready assets.}
5. The Soviets are collecting for shiTnent to the USSR submarine parts and
blueprints which are still on hand at laagraer-Biro and `4iener Br+ ckenbau.
b. A series of conferences began on the afternoon of 14 December at the Imperial
Hotel for all Soviet heads of USIA departments and ~ Conferences
mare still underway on the evening of 15 December, Cos The stir
acrd excitement produced in USIA by these conferences indicates that the probl o
under discussion my be more far-reaching than. those which usually come under
consideration at conferences held at the end of the year.)
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