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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The moms and dad company of Voice of America stated on Friday it had provided termination notices to over 639 more personnel, finishing an 85% decline in workers considering that March and effectively spelling the end of a broadcasting network established to counter Nazi propaganda.

Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the personnel reduction indicated 1,400 positions had been removed as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda to cut staffing at the agency to a statutory minimum.

"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 take apart a bloated, unaccountable administration," Lake stated in a statement.

She said the agency had actually been "filled with dysfunction, predisposition, and waste."

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

The relocation likely marks an end to VOA, which was founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, run in nearly 50 languages and reached 360 million people a week, lots of living under authoritarian routines.

In May, nearly 600 VOA specialists were dismissed.

Some Republicans have implicated VOA and other openly moneyed media outlets of being prejudiced versus conservatives, and called for them to be shuttered as part of wider to diminish the government.
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Another USAGM station, Radio Free Asia, which has already been lowered to skeleton staffing, stated in a personnel email on Friday that it was executing additional furloughs in its human resources, regulation, reporter security, and research study, training & examination groups.

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