WESTERN EUROPE DIVISION OFFICE OF REPORTS AND ESTIMATES WORKING PAPER DIVISION WEEKLY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-01090A000400020007-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 15, 1949
• Content Type: PAPER

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WESTERN EUROPE DIVISION
OFFICE OF REPORTS AND ESTIMATES
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DIVISION WEMM'Y
NOTICE: This document is a working paper,
NOT an official CIA issuance. It has been
co-ordinated within ORE, but not with the
IAC Agencies & It represents current think-
tug by specialists in CIA, and is designed
for use by others engaged in similar or
overlapping studies a The opinions expressed
herein may be revised before final and offi-
cial publication. It is intended solely for
the information of the addressee and not for
further dissemination.
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The now Austrian Cabinet premises to be a more
efficient governing body for Avatria then its predecessor'
Pour former Ministries have been abolished and their
functions absorbed within existing Ministries, thus
effecting a beneficial amalgamation of previously over-
lapping rospaas abilities t Within the economic Ministries
there has been an increase in Socialist participation,
which improves the prospects for a more efficient manag*e-
ment of the nationalized industries. Final17, the now
Cabinet does not include some of the former I $ni.sters who
had shown themselves politically inadequate for their
posts
The reorganization of the Cabinet was made with
an eye to conclusion of the treaty and the integration
into the Austrian economy of the many Industrial plants
which have been under Soviet control With :hose consid-
eration; in mind