Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11

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buildings Of the County Eco
nomic Enterprise on Koenig-
ShainerStraSse.
Attention 'Glauchau - atten-
ton Glauchau!
1.-THE SSD lSecurity Officey is
located in the villa formerly oc-
cupied by factory director Goer-
mann. on Plantagenstrasse. The
head Of the Office is. 7.
Attention Calau - attention
Calau, Niederlausitz! Senften-
berg as head Of the works police
at the Use Mines"
Batting Average Is High.
RIAS works in cooperation
with allied intelligence services in
Berlin. But much of its informa-
ton comes from visitors" to the
station itself-people who have
lied the East Zone with vital
bits of information What they
have to say is carefully checked
before it is broadcast and RIAS's
batting average for accuracy is
high.
The effectiveness of the OPP
Grafton is indicated by the test
mony Of refugees and the re-
action of the Communists
themselves. For the last year,
red tanning stations have been
making determined effort to
block RIAS broadcastS to critical
areas. concentrating especially
in the vital industrial sections of
East Saxony around Dresden and
Leipsig. Where these efforts are
sufficiently concentrated, they
are effective.
On the other hand, the RIAS
people are not at all worried
about the expensive and wholly
futile advertising campaign that
the Communists have staged
against them. Handsome. four
color posters. denunciationS on
Radio Berlin. newspaper hlurbs
branding RIAS as a spy-center
and "a paid. sinking news-ulcer
owned by foreign monopoly cap
italists and criminal warmon-
gers"-all this is good for bust
ness.
key Personnel Guarded.
The threat of more positive
retaliation by the Communists
can never be entirely ruled out.
RIAS is probably one of a very
few radio stations in the world
which has its own private police
guards to patrol the building.
Key personnel are provided with
armed escorts to and from their
homes. Kidnapings have hap
pened in fairly recent weeks.
And in Berlin. kidnapings are no
joke.
It is one of the more impress
sive bits of evidence of relaxing
tension between the two sectors
of the city during the Big Four
conference that these security
precautions have been largely
dropped. RIAS legmen who ordi-
narily would never venture near
the sector boundary now fegu-
larly attend the briefings at the
Soviet press center. Even the
RIAS technical truck. with the
name of the station painted on
the side, has made occasional
forays into enemy territory for
on-the- spot broadcasts, creating
quite a stir among the East
Berliners. ..,-s..... 4.
Aims to Maintain Morale, 49,
In the directors office on the,
fifth floor of the RIAS Building.
Mr.. Ewing. explains something Of,
the pitch being made on the
four-power conference.
Our big problem is simply the
one of maintaining the morale
in the zone ana sometimes it's a
little tricky. to figure out what
line to take.
In the past, the people here
have been riding a sort of emo
tional see-saw. Each new inter-
national conference that came
along pushed their hopes way
up. What followed always came
as a terrible let-down. A good
deal of our job right now is to
try to keep our listeners from
getting their hopes up too high"
Even in West Berlin there is
some evidence of over optimism
among the people. Real estate is
normally hard to dispose of.
Most people would consider it at
best risky kind of investment.
Within the last week. a German
friend of Mr.. Ewing's has had
five separate offers on her home