THE INFORMATION OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004800500007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
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COUNTRY Germany (Soviet Zone)
SUBJECT The Information Office
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l. The Information Office (Amt far Information), headed by Gerhard Eisler, which
is located in the Thalmannpiatz (Wilhelmplatz), is not in a position to ac-
commodate all its departments in this building and must seek rooms in various
other buildings.
2. Before taking over the Information Office; Eisler had a long conversation
with Nalenkov, the chairman of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
3. For the year (sic) Eisler has at his disposal for his work 20;500,000 east
marks and five million west marks. In connection with this it must be borne
in mind that the costs for the five so-called state information offices (Tnivies-
informationiaiter)must be borne by the Lander concerned.
4. Daily at 2:30 P.M. there is held a session for the issuance of orlers (Befehlsausgabe)
at which the editors of the East Berlin papers must be present.
5. Subject to the Information Office are the press, cinema, theatre; cultural or-
ganizations, all intellectual groups, the DEFA; -radio, the universities, and
Various smaller organizations.
60 There is a special bureau for Western penny (Sonderdezernat Westdeutschland)
whose job is to inject fa/se news reports into the neighboring West German papers;
which must then be retracted. Thereby it is hoped to destroy the credibility of
the West German press.
7. Tasks of the Information Office are:
a. The stabilization of opinion in German politics with especial consideration
for the attitude toward the Soviet Union.
b. Reorganization of propaganda, centralization of the existing news sources,
roified direction of the propaganda means, exact control of all political
. currents.
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This document is hereby regra&nd tOi
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United Sta:es.
Next Review Date: 2008
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c. Ideological aid (Betreuung) to the Communist Party in the western zones.
d. Preparation of the SED for acceptance into the Cominform as the twelfth .
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8. Especial Importance will also be placed upon the bureaux (Dazernate) for de-
fensive and aggressive propaganda. The bureau for defensive propaganda must
repulse all Western attacks and present challenges in return. The special
bureau (Sonderdezernat) for aggressive propaganda will give special considera-
tion to events in the western zones. It will carry on attacks against the
wast-zone rtime? against the occupying powers, and against the Marshall Plan,
and exploit various disagreements between the western zones and the conquerors.
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