USIA PLANS FOR 1949

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400360001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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shortly boforeChrist *r 148 a twwen pt-four hour noeting time held et L,) Zt
headquarters, Trattn .cof 1, ich was: attended l Soviet department ohiefs
of USIA and voviet direcstors f all USA-controlled time. Also, severe,
ropreaentativea to t 'I soon ro ellegbdl r' present.
2. The pricnry pur ose of the n tis woo to inmeee MIA chiefs with the urgency
of cutting production Costs 4d adw tretive overhead, and of in icie
production. It its *tot;ed dt ins the nesting that Moscow we considering) the
advieabtlit~ r of dscreiaeing po onnel at Trettnerhof and of cutting; the salaries
of those rocrzinivg. s According to .nforiut, the average aalarj -
of all tNt of pe c'nnil, inoludir Austrian , is approxiapate],y 4,000 schill-
inge per tlaaanthe )
Other tatters discussed were
difficulties encountered in
duetion plan for USIA fires
hot ri et'lnA'. disauarfon of
detailed plane ant dsic sione
USIA directors and I aloccw a rep tnsentativee. The results or the latter meetings
are not yet known,
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meeting held on 16 D$o01nbe9r
attarx"ied by repr entat.ty? ;
Georgisv of the ILIA limit
USIA plants which are sow
state treaty. The prahleu
emphasised in the Tr*ttnerho
reduction of personas l,n-drit.v
the developti ut or row rice
or not the Four Pove e a
easona and remedies for production bottle necks,
rhating certain USIA prroducts~ and the 1949 prop
genef'nl. Cower,: At this first Tratttn
problem zaeontioned above rtes quite general. but
eve been nude during subsequent meetings of top
other sources oo3ntains a report on another
the Coopas Building at Wipplingerstrasre 22,
the Austrian Can-mniet Par C 3. Con~Ettee,
:tries "Admiaistratioxe, and Austrian di,rec rs of
d for Soviet reteftion after the signing of a
scuesed which were approodaastely the sane as those
discussion described above, pointed to a general
toward 4reater efficiency and higher production, aid
by USIA enterprises in 1949, regsrd1 sss of whether
-ae on the terms of a state treaty for Austria.)
1This do cum t is here y rcy`1^ to
C?Nr1D NT in acccr c ~y"ii the
letter of 16 toter 1tr3 froii the
Director of .Cen I inteligenceto the
Archivist of the `ted States.
Next Review Date: 8
CLASSUFICA
Approved For Release 1999/09/09: ILIA-RDP82-0045IRDO2
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