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    "ocrText": "SECRET\n- 5 -\nA similar tendency is to be found in comment for Turkey and Iran which\nmore often than not is mainly directed against \"reactionary\" and anti-Soviet\ninfluences in those countries. At the same time, the Azerbaijan National\nRadio, with its powerful transmitter at Tabriz - a parting \"gift, \" it was\nstated, of the Red Army - has been broadcasting intensive propaganda in\nTurkish Azerbaijani against the Iranian Government, and this station\nalso broadcasts in Persian, Kurdish, Russian, Arabic and French, \"to enlighten\nworld opinion on our national aspirations and achievements.\nAs in the case of Greece, transmissions in Turkish tend to pay great\nattention to internal politics and to stress the \"absence of freedom\" in\nTurkey, a familiar theme which Moscow's Turkish commentator Erdem has\nrepeatedly embroidered in connection with the elections. For Arab and\nIranian listeners, on the other hand, Turkish policy past and present is\nstrongly attacked, and in Middle Eastern transmissions for all destinations,\nanti-British propaganda is marked and listeners are intermittently warned\nagainst the activities of Nuri-E1-Said, of the alleged implications of the\nAnglo-Transjordan Treaty and the nglo-Egyptian negotiations, and of British\npolicy generally.\nBroadcasts for Germany and Austria:\nAlthough similar in treatment to broadcasts for the Soviet sphere of\ninfluence, the Moscow radio in German provides certain individual aspects\nwhich merit a more detailed examination. With the emergence of the Berlin\nradio and its satellites insíde the Soviet zone as the mouthpiece of Soviet\npolicy in Germany, German broadcasts from Moscow have lost most of the personal\ncharacter they displayed during the war, when broadcasts under the aegis of\nthe \"Free Germany Committee\" proved a most effective propaganda medium.\nMoreover, the amount of time allotted to broadcasts for Germany has been\ngradually reduced since the end of the war. A large proportion of these\ntransmissions, as in the case of other languages, is now devoted to publicizing\nall aspects of Soviet life and progress, and to the Soviet line on interna-\ntional affairs through the usual medium of long extracts from the Soviet\npress, commentaries and carefully selected and arranged news items.\nRelatively little time is given to German domestic affairs.\nStrictly German features are limited largely to local reportage on\neconomic, political and cultural progress in the Soviet zone, attributed\nto\n\"our correspondent\" and duplicating to a considerable extent the much\nwider service of the Berlin radio. Such commentaries as are addressed\ndirectly to the German people are delivered anonymously and follow the\npropaganda line of the Berlin radio, although with a more stereotyped and\nmonotonous presentation.\nBroadcasts for Austria contain very few reports originating from the\nSoviet or other zones, apart from extracts from the press, mainly the\nCommunist papers. These broadcasts differ in tone from the Vienna radio,\nwhich is no doubt under Soviet censorship but not apparently under direct\nSoviet or Communist control. The subjects treated in the anonymous commen-\ntaries addressed to Austrian listeners and the propaganda trends are in\nthe main those ventilated by the Austrian Communist Party, but with some\n300 and 5(3)\nC.I.A LTR 12.10.720\n1.15.13\nSECRET\nNLT"
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