CHANGES IN THE ADN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400200001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLA.SSIFICATiON SECRET
SECURITY x 'OR3 T1ON .
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REF
INFADRONAMION REPORT CD
4ESi..I
East Germany
Changes in the ADT
DATE DISTR. 3 April 1953
NO, OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
tUSIEU BELOW
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
l?!. i'F COH6AII a FORYATI090 AFFECYINCS THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
E. t -: STATES. WI H1E1 THE I86AVIRG OF TITLS IO. SECTIONS 793
.=fter the Taegl. the Itundschau had started criticizing the ADN several
i, eels ago, persons familiar with the situation expeete;l that the ADN
Ltd which had the publishers of sixteen newspapers as rartn9r.s would
a dissolved and be converted into a nationalized information apparatus
"ter Ve pattern of the Soviet ".lass agency. Some also believed that
the ADS would possibly be merged with the AFL. The A.DN personnel was
checked by a commission.
wwere wou_.d be some postponement because of difficulties re7arding the
personnel, especially as a rough analysis of the personal files and
cuestioires indicated that about 70 percent of the personnel did not
beet the requirements of government employee . He commented that no editor
Jiving in West Berlin as well as no editor
British cc French PW could be era to Ted.
Ithe organization would 25X1
loliow qe pattern or the ass agency, with tie foreign editing office,
for example, subordinate to and responsible to the foreign ministry.
3., On 19 December 1952, the board of directors of the ADN convened for a
meeting which had originally been planned for January 1953 and there.2ore
carne as a surprise. A member of the AFL, which had of yet been dissolved
at that time, also was present. While the deactivation of the ADN Ltd, which
was exnected 7eeting was postponed, since 25X1
the problem of personnel cos not 25X1
o solved that expe , sous y, preparatory measures to this effect were taken.
The most surprising of these was the discharge of Hansen. The day after the
ma=ting, the ADN informed all its subscribers by a circular letter that
Hansen's application for discharge had been accept.:d and that the board
appointed Mrs Deba Wieland as his successor 1
~~. Sn 20 December 1952, Hansen, in a farewell address to the ADN section chiefs,
V a.ved that hu was given a now assignment which was of smaller scope but 25X1
called for ten times nore responsibility. He said that in his new capacit
he would continue in official contact with the ADN.
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On 21 December 1952, S:rs. De'oa Wieland,who had been Gerh- rd 'isl r"s
deputy prior to the dissolution of the )fr.ice for Inrormatio.apresefited
herself to the ADN personnel. Im a speech she made to t ie section chiefs
she briefly mention~d that the work of the A TI would be more centralizer
in the future.
UNCQ?~
Gom: ent A're Delia ,'ielgnd nrah^ W. is Erna Iii "I 7?Rs,~~
Information (A 'I).
She was w.no as deputy chief of tP~ e Art fuer
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