BERLIN OFFICE OF TASS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009100410006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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SUBJECT Berlin Office o
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DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 30 October 1951
NO. OF PAGES 2
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The Berlin office or TABS, the official Soviet News Agency y is lmated in Be 1
Niederschtinhausen, najakawskistr. 11. Chief of the office is "Vodyan Budakhin,
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Assistants to Budakhin in
this office aret
a?, Hermann Gurjanow
b, Mikhail Panshin
Bucialchin
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was with the Tess agency during the
Nazi. period. Bis predecessor in the Tass office in Berlin was (fnt) Sitnikov,
who is now on duty with the Soviet Embassy in East Berlin. Sitnikov lives with
his wife inside the Niederschanhausen compound. Line,Sitnikov formerly worked as
secretary in the Tass office but has now given this up.
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The offices of Radio Moscow and the representative of the nose= newspaper. Pravda
are located at najakawskistr. 12. In charge of these offices is ?aul Naum
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His assistant is a
German =man, the wife of Rudolf Herrnstadtl editor-in-chief of Neues Deutschland.
Comment: Nikolaevich 3udahin
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dent slated to attend the I.G. Farben trials in September -1947 is presumed to be identi-
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