CENSORSHIP OF SED PAPER; BERLIN NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200630005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 16, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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Approved For Release 1999/09/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000200630005-
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
.COUNTRY
Ce /rtussian Zone
SUBJECT 1 Censorship of 35D Paper; Berlin
Circulation
16 Janus 1947
#MENT
is reriorte . that the officer in charge of the German press in the
}:soviet Sector of Berlin, Yajor Oav1deriko, has gone to Moscow alleg-
edly on leave, His work is being handled by Lt . Colonel Koltypinv
# .. Relations het''een the editorial staff of Neues Deutschland and the
m-sussian censors are very strained; the staff ha.s lout a.lrl inc epen-
d Unee in any important questions. The censors are accused of using
-. ty methods and chicanery. a The main objection to the censors is
; lat they will not allovi objective reporting on conditions in the
O-. 1~ October the Neu Rjs^ i land censor cut out an entire article
t~P an order of SbdiA Berlin dated 12 October. On 23 October mention
,?ij' t1 qt at ?rankfurt/1"Main was deleted,, On 24 October the censor
. =~ :ted an article bla. i .rz the Bevjag for K he lack of ? lectr c power
in Fs .ix 86.000 copies of one issue, shortly before 20 October,
3?ar confiscated because of a sentence dealina, with the change in
rF1s.Ayoa s on the basis of election results.
.; The following figure. on. the circulation of Berlin papers at the end
of October were received from a reliable source:
.. ,+ TRIgliche Rundschau
Neue.s Deuts
-bland
is CHANGE
k DEC'LA.'S-_~ ~
+;ortf=1r s
Berliner