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<br>WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The parent company of Voice of America stated on Friday it had actually provided termination notifications to over 639 more staff, completing an 85% decline in personnel given that March and effectively spelling completion of a broadcasting network founded to counter Nazi propaganda.<br>[freshsarkarijobs.com](http://freshsarkarijobs.com)
<br>Kari Lake, senior consultant to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the staff reduction suggested 1,400 [positions](https://www.execafrica.com/about-us/) had been gotten rid of as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's program to cut staffing at the agency to a statutory minimum.<br>
<br>"Reduction in Force Termination Notices were sent out 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 declaration.<br>
<br>She said the agency had actually been "filled with dysfunction, predisposition, and waste."<br>
<br>Lake stated the move implied USAGM now ran near its statutory minimum of 81 staff members. She said 250 employees would stay across USAGM, Voice of America, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which sends news into Cuba. She said none of OCB's 33 employees had been terminated.<br>
<br>The move likely marks an end to VOA, which was established in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, operated in nearly 50 languages and reached 360 million people a week, many living under authoritarian routines.<br>
<br>In May, almost 600 VOA contractors were dismissed.<br>
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<br>Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has actually currently been decreased to skeleton staffing, said in a personnel e-mail on Friday that it was [implementing extra](https://www.execafrica.com/recruitment-services/) furloughs in its human resources, regulation, reporter security, and research, training & evaluation groups.<br>
<br>Various court cases remain in train versus the USAGM cuts. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)<br>