THE DDR INFORMATION OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009100460004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 3, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION WW-00457RO091tet N4 CENTRAL AG CY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
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INFO.
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Germany (Russian Zone)
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3 Nov. 1951
The DDR Information Office
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Control Section (Abteilung Inforziationekontrolle), the Press Section (Abtei-
lung P~resse), and the Peace and (Five-year) Plan Propaganda Section (Abtei"-
lung Friedens and Planpropaganda). The Information Control Section operates
under special security directives and is closely affiliated with the SSD.
It is supplied with reports on the mood of the population by the offices in
the various states. These reports are in turn forwarded to the SSD, The
Peace and Plan Propaganda Section issues directives covering the propaganda
work of all other sections of the Office. Among its main efforts were a
concentrated campaign against remi.litarieation in Western Germany and the
implementation of a so-called letter-writing program under which as many West
Germans as possible were to receive propaganda letters. The Office also in-
eludes an Agitation Committee which is headed by Inge Lippmann and whose mem-
bers are given weekly indoctrinations."
The passes of employees of DDR government agencies are stamped with,a black
identification number, about 15 mm. high. Those of the Office bear the iden-
tification No. 26 and those of the Goverment Planning Commission No. 6, The
official stamps of the Office and its sections are consecutively numbered,
with the Cultural Affairs Section (Abteilung Xulturelle Fragen) having No.7
and the Administrative Section (Abteilung Allgerieine Verwaltung) having No. 9.
ten departments or sections.* It maintains an office in each state, located
in Schwerin for Mecklenburg, in Halle for Saxony-Anhalt, in Dresden for
Saxony, in Erfurt for Thuringia, in Potsdam for Brandenburg, and in Berlin
for Gross-Berlin. The organization of the offices in the various states
corresponds to that of the zone-level Information Office.
The most important sections of the Information Office are the Information
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