Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: In order to support his family he took a job as a writer for the Prussian intelligence agency Zentralstelle fÃ 1\/4 r Presseangelegenheiten which was meant to influence the press towards the German nationalist cause .
Simplified: In order to support his family he took a job as a writer for the Prussian intelligence agency Centralstelle fÃ 1\/4 r PreÃ angelegenheiten which was meant to influence the press towards a German national cause .