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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The parent agency of Voice of America said on Friday it had provided termination notices to over 639 more staff, completing an 85% decrease in personnel because March and efficiently spelling completion of a broadcasting network founded to counter Nazi propaganda.

Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, stated the staff decrease suggested 1,400 positions had actually been eliminated as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's program to cut staffing at the firm to a statutory minimum.

"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent to 639 staff members at USAGM and Voice of America, part of a long-overdue effort to dismantle a bloated, unaccountable administration," Lake said in a statement.

She stated the agency had been "filled with dysfunction, bias, and waste."

Lake stated the relocation meant USAGM now operated near its statutory minimum of 81 workers. She said 250 staff members would stay across USAGM, Voice of America, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which transfers news into communist-run Cuba. She stated none of OCB's 33 workers had actually been ended.

The move likely marks an end to VOA, which was founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, run in almost 50 languages and reached 360 million people a week, lots of living under authoritarian routines.
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In May, almost 600 VOA professionals were dismissed.
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Some Republicans have actually and other openly funded media outlets of being biased versus conservatives, and called for them to be shuttered as part of wider efforts to shrink the federal government.

Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has currently been reduced to skeleton staffing, said in a staff email on Friday that it was carrying out extra furloughs in its human resources, ordinance, reporter security, and research, training & evaluation groups.

Various court cases are in train versus the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)