Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 300-3

Title

German Affairs

Date(s)

1953 - 1973

Description Level

Subfonds

Extent and medium (processed)

45 Archival boxes, 5.62 linear meters

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

The records includes daily press releases, newspaper clippings from German, and periodicals, transcripts of the monitoring of the Czechoslovak Radio and Television broadcasts, Background Reports Situation Reports and RFE Research Reports.

Includes extensive information related to agriculture, armed forces (Warsaw Pact, NATO, ), political parties (large section on the Communist Party, the files on the Central Committee are from1946), opposition, economy, culture, industry and state apparatus..

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

Unknown

Languages

English, German

Notes

Note

Trudy Peterson, former executive director of the OSA knew from discussions with Bill Robinson, who had worked for the Radios for many years, that in the late 1950s and early 1960s there had been a small group who studied East Germany and people who tracked the “International Communist Movement" all over the world. The relationship between these groups is not clear.

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by Pavol Šalamon, July 8, 2003.