EXPANSION OF THE GERMAN NEWS AGENCY, ADN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005000680009-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Gerrar y (T{:usssian Zone)
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1, The Soviet-licensed General Gory eusService s Allren,einer DeutschsrNachriehtendienst
(ADN) has lately expanded its Article Contributions Department and its Russian
Division and also established an Information Department. The rootsy former Gor-
man-Asiatic Bank building, which was assigned to the ADN by the Sr'A, iu now too
snail; and the question ;whether to assign to ADN part of the building ano
cated to the DER (the former ?iitropa), whioi is directly across the tlittelstrasse
from the ADNI, is being considered.
2. The expansion of the AN Is related to the suspension of the Berlin Service of
the Soviet Information Office (31M) s, in that ADN is to take over a part of the
STll t ss functions. Srsecificaliy, the ADN is to ass responsibility for both
coil action of information for the Russians and dissemination of l susssian
propaganda.
3. Since the ADN had a big deficit in the past year, the question has arisen
whether it should be made good by the ADN subscribers or by other sources,
4. The new Information Department ( "Inforbmationsdienst") of the AD11 operates behind
locked doorsso ADN editor Herzberg has been made Chief of it, and he in 'eneral]y
considered a reliable Co!smunisst. He also attends to the matter of ADTI repreeenta-
tion at the Berlin offices of the western Allies. Supporting him in the Informa-
tion Department is the journalist Appelt, a son of the pressent* Chief of the DDR
tli scion to Moscow.
5. The foreign representation of the ADN has been considerably reduced. )Mrs. Kroner
has been withdrawn from Bucharest, where dhe ha d been unsuccessful; Schreiber vas
withdrawn from Budapest and replaced by a native Commminist, whose material is
understood to be worthless. The only remaining foreign representative of the
ADN is Kahane,, formerly of Reuters, who, atilt maintains his position in Pras?uo.
The desires of ADII to send, representatives to Moscow and Nazew have so far not
been complied with by th3 competent authority of either city. In the case of
Moscow, it was stated that the T ASS service should suffice.
6. Schreiber has again taken over the Foreign Desk of the ADN.
7. The editor-in-chief of ADt1 is Georg Wilhelm Tiansen,, who is said to have been
especially trained for assignments in Germany during his period of exile in
the USSR in the Hitler era.
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8,, The demands of the SED that everyone who is a resident of the western sectors
of Berlin be discharged from official positions in the eastern sQotor have so
far not offocted the ..ADNI, About 60 percent of the AM's editorial staff., In-
cluding Herzberg, lives in the western sectors of Berlin,
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