FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SEVICE NEWSLETTER

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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Foreign Broadcast
Information Service
Edition 85-2
1 March 1985
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NEWSLETTER 1 March 1985
requirements.
ANNERP, MILAN PRESS UNITS APPROVED
All necessary approvals have been obtained for FBIS to establish two
Press Units in Western Europe, one in Antwerp and one in Milan. The Antwerp
Unit will open in early April 1985 and the Milan Unit in late 1985. These
sites are expected to provide an excellent opportunity to collect and
exploit new open source information, primarily on scientific and technical
developments. They will offer good access to publications such as trade
journals, conference reports, and research papers published not only in the
host countries but in other West and East European countries as well. In
addition, the Press Units will establish online access to foreign automated
data bases and retrieve economic and SUIT information responsive to IC
cargo firms.
TELEVISION DEVELOPMENTS
At the request of DI offices, FBIS is setting up a project of videotaping
newscasts and special events daily from the television services of five major
world capitals. Beijing TV will be recorded at Hong Kong Bureau, Tokyo at
Okinawa, Jerusalem at Tel Aviv, Havana at Key West, and Bonn at Cologne. The
tapes will normally heyforwarded each day to. Headquarters via commercial air
MOD has had discussions recently with officers from both State INR
and USIA in regard to accessing Soviet television from the Washington area.
Both are looking into the economic feasibility of using a rooftop antenna
for the purpose and were asking for informatio et TV programming,
the satellites involved, and on FBIS's plans.
monitoring for DI offices. Activation is expected in July.
FBIS is moving ahead toward installation of a 10-meter satellite
monitoring, dish adjacentto..the.,North..ParkingLot in the Headquarters
compound. The antenna is being installed to provide live foreign television
SUPPORT TO HIGH-LEVEL CONSUMERS
A copy of the Chernenko electf6n speech, which appeared in the 25
February USSR DAILY REPORT, was passed to the President for his reading,
according to a PDB staffer. The staffer said that Secretary Shultz had
suggested the President read the speech and that both National Security
Adviser McFarlane and Vice President Bush included it in materials passed
to the'President. This is a rare case o ou knowing for certain that the
.President has seen a DAILY REPORT item. --?
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The White House Situation Room asked the Wire Services Staff to
provide NSC Adviser McFarlane with relevant items from Soviet media on the
arms talks during his discussions in Geneva. FBIS routinely provides such
services to the Secretary of State during such conferences. AG also
transmitted analysis notes to the delegation during the conference.
On behalf of Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam, the Director of
Public Communications in State's Bureau of Public Affairs requested a. copy
of the video recording of Gromyko's 13 January press conference. The
Moscow TV tape was converted to U.S. standard and hand carried to State
along with a transcript of the press conference from the DAILY REPORT and
a TRENDS analysis of Gromyko's remarks. The State director called to say
that Dam greatly appreciated the quick and thorough service.
For Ambassador Hartman in Moscow, the Wire Services Staff refiled to
Embassy Moscow texts and summaries of a number of inflammatory Soviet radio
and TASS commentaries suggesting that the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal,
India, had been engaged in secret research on chemical warfare agents prior
Differing treatment of Chernenko in two editions of the Soviet military
newspaper RED STAR on 15 January, reported by PMU and noted in the DAILY
REPORT, was a key piece of evidence used in an article in the President's
Daily Brief on Chernenko's physical and political health. An editorial in
the first edition effusively praised Chernenko. In the second edition, the
accolade was deleted and a reference to "other party and state leaders" added.
This editorial doctoring, along with evidence from other sources, was seen
as indicating that Chernenko's political position was weakening. Monitoring
of satellite facsimile transmissions of RED STAR enabled FBIS to distribute
the information to analysts the same day. F7
Top-!eve,t change, at Binh Howse wee announced in January " Managing D.ilcectorc
Doug.ta.s MuggeitLdge ne.,ti ted a6-ten a tong ittnms, and wa teptaced by Austen
Kanfz, with Chki.6topheh Be,U becoming h.vo deputy.
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NEWS FROM THE BUREAUS
PHILIPPINES RECEPTION SURVEY
Okinawa Bureau has conducted a radio reception survey in the Philippines
to update our knowledge of.mediumwave broadcasting in the Manila area. The
survey was made at Clark AFB and at Baguio. Clark provided the best reception,
with signals. from 29-AM broadcasters and 22 FM stations being heard. Because
most Philippine broadcasters specialize in music and entertainment, an FBIS
operation in the Philippines would not likely significantly improve
collection at this time. In an emergency, however, it may be useful to
send in a small monitoring team. A new reception survey of the Philippines
from Ishigaki Island, Japan, is scheduled for the near future. F
Construction on Swaziland Bureau's "Kelley Hill" remote antenna site
is currently underway with completion estimated to be in mid-March.
Earlier reception surveys from the proposed site indicated that the bureau
can expect appreciably enhanced midday and early evening reception of the
radios of Harare, Lusaka, Blantyre, Maputo, Antananarivo, and Windhoek.
There are also plans to monitor South African television (SATV) from the
site; initial reception checks are promising. The Swazi Government relay
transmitter used for SATV is nearby and in line-of-sight of the "Kelley
Hill" remote site.
SPECIAL SERVICES
At the request-of the U.S. Embassy Moscow, London - and Okinawa bureaus are filing program summaries which include U.S.-related items shown on
Soviet television. Of particular interest are interviews with Americans,
any coverage of the United States that could be construed as positive,
and Soviet broadcasts of joint telecasts. The Embassy's request was
occasioned by recent developments, such as negotiations on a new bilateral
exchange agreement, which have heightened interes the way U.S. domestic;.
and foreign policies are portrayed on_Soviet TV.
In response to a request by the Office of the Director, USIA, London
Bureau provided VOA London with the tape of a Moscow World Service feature
London PMU received congratulations from Headquarters for its speedy
handling of SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA's 15 January report on the postponement of the
meeting of the Warsaw Pact Political Consultative Committee, received via
pressfax. It was a "clear scoop which rang telephones around t nd was
also indirectly acknowledged in an article in THE ECONOMIST.
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Australian Ambassador Gordon Jockel, dean of the diplomatic corps in
Thailand, told the deputy chief of Bangkok Bureau that he had obtained
from the American Embassy the FBIS version of a particular article in order
to have the "definitive translation." He also praised FBIS translations at
length. adding that he had been seeking them out for more than 30 years.
Embassy and local military consumers requested Seoul Bureau's assistance
several times in January in locating items of interest from French and
Soviet media. At the bureau's request, London PMU translated and filed
several articles on DPRK-French relations from French dailies; and London
Bureau provided material on General Vessey's visit to China.
At the behest of USIA/Radio Marti, Key West Bureau has begun daily
mailing to Radio Marti of videotapes of all Havana Television casts
monitored by the bureau. Program summaries of selected Havana Radio and
Television casts currently wirefiled to Headquarters are also being sent
electronically to Radio Marti on a trial basis.
In response to various requests from local and Headquarters consumers,
Panama Bureau supplied consumers with audio cassette tapes of Fidel Castro's
11 January speech at the inauguration of a sugar mill in Nicaragua; the
Spanish-language version of a U.S.-attributed article on "Cuban diplomatic
couriers and subversive activity in Latin America" that appeared in a local
Panama City newspaper on 14 January; and a two-part interview with the U.S.
ambassador to Costa Rica published in a Costa Rican paper.
With open watches on Bolivian and Paraguayan media, Paraguay Bureau
kept senior Embassy officers continually informed on developments concerning
the tragic crash of an Eastern Airlines airliner on Mount Illimani, Bolivia.
There were no survivors among the passengers and crew, who included
Marian Davis, the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, William Kelly,
acting director of the Peace Corps in Paraguay, and Sgt. Jonathan Watson of
the Embassy Marine Security Detachment. The DCM, speaking for the mission
and the Ambassador, expressed to the bureau chief his personal. appreciation
for the Bureau's efforts in keeping all informed. Other special services
by the Bureau included filing to Embassy Santiago a statement by the Ambassador
carried by Radio Chilena, at the request of the office of the Ambassador. The
bureau filed directly to the State Department's Southern Cone Desk a
vituperative commentary broadcast by the radio of the Paraguayan ruling naarty
attacking two U.S. Congressmen who recently visited the country.
Tel Aviv Bureau's services to Embassy components included providing
texts of various Jerusalem radio items for the office of the Ambassador, the
DCM, and USIS. It also translated for the Embassy security office a radio
item claiming the Embassy is looking for a new site in Tel Aviv and a television
report on new security measures at the Embassy. The bureau supplied
duplicates of the Political Semis file to the U.S. team present at the
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On 13 December Swaziland Bureau processed from South African television
an interview with U.S. Assistant Secretary Chester Crocker at the request
of the Embassy in Pretoria. On the 27th, the TV carried a special program
on Swazi-RSA relations-following the signing of a trade pact between the
two countries. The bureau processed the program at the request of Charge
-Charles Lahiguera, who, along with UK Acting High Commissioner Michael Cox,
visited the Bureau on the 28th to view the taped program. BBC carried an
interview with Swazi Prince Dumisa, in exile in London, in which he announced
formation of a "Swaziland Liberation Movement." Charge Lahiguera was
.alerted to.-the item and picked up a-cop from the bureau next morning, along
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The Abidjan Bureau.chief paid a courtesy call on 12 December on the
chief of the GOIC Foreign Ministry Press and Information Service. The official
expressed-gratitude,for the French-- and English-language items passed twice
daily to the Foreign Ministry and voiced interest in receiving the file more
quickly. The bureau chief offered-to explore the feasibility of running a
ponyline to the ministry. During Embassy staff meetings, both Ambassador
Miller and DCM Cundiff called attention to the bureau's contribution to the
mission in Abidjan. To further enhance its services, at the end of January
the bureau began electronic distribution of its file to mission consumers.
At the personal request of the head of the U.S. Trade and Development
Corporation/Asia Region, assigned to the Consulate, Hong Kong Bureau
translated into Chinese the text of an agreement between TDC and the Govern-
ment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. The U.S. official had learned only
late in the afternoon that the Shenzhen Government wanted the agreement in
Chinese, and the signing ceremony was the following morning. Senior Monitor
Francis:` Ng 'produced the" documerit"iu beautiful calligraphy': ""The bureau chief
received a commendation letter from=the Consulate?Economics"Section thanking
the bureau for its'quick assistance in tracking down requested articles on
PRC'economic reform. The letter expressed"appreciation for the "invaluable
support" the-bureau provided through-its "voluminous .and accurate translation
of the Chinese press" and its "cooperative and professional on-the-spot
responses to nebulous requests."
VISITS, BRIEFINGS
chief of
Ambassador to Panama Everett E.:
Briggs, DCM William T. Pryce, and
political officer Donald Winters
attache training at the DIA Defense
Intelligence College, visited
Abidjan Bureau on 10 December-for
a briefing on FBIS field support
for the post DAO.
Janet Sanderson, State Desk officer
for the Arab Peninsula, visited Gulf
Bureau on 15 January for discussions
on the bureau's coverage and selection.
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visited Panama Bureau for a briefing
and tour on 30 January. On 24 25X1
December, Army Capt Larry R. Santure,
JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina, toured the
bureau. He was visiting Panama as
part of a graduate course being
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a major FBIS consumer.
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DDI analyst) (visited
Paraguay Bureau on 13 December for
orientation and to brief the bureau
Four participants in the Cuba-
Caribbean Analytical Symposium,
hosted by U.S. Forces Caribbean,
James Todd from USINT, Havana, Capt
Ben Hill, From USCINCLANT, and
of DDI,visited Key West Bureau on
13 and 14 December for orientation
and briefing.
Barbara Shrage, chief of the
Consulate Political Section,
political officer Pat Delveccio,
and Roberta Chew from the
Consulate in Guangzhou visited
Hong Kong Bureau on 7 January
for a brie ing.
Vice Admiral Edward Burkhalter
and aides visited Okinawa Bureau
on 24 January for an orientation
briefing. The admiral was also
accompanied by BGen Donald
Snyder, Commanding General,
313th Air Division, USAF.
Darryl Johnson, political counselor,
Embassy Beijing, vis cok ted Bureau on 4 January.
A large Japanese Air Self-Defense
Force delegation headed by Major
General Takei, J-3 of the U.S.-
Japan Joint Staff, and including
also colonels and commanders from
Japan's Ground and Naval Self-
Defense Forces, was briefed at
Okinawa Bureau on 13 December as
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orientation tour of U.S. facilities
in Okinawa. They were accompanied
by USAF Col Neil Weatherbie, J-6 25X1
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Other recent visitors to Okinawa
Bureau include: S/Sgt J. Hawthorne
and other U.S. Marine Corps
noncommissioned officers affiliated
with the III Marine Amphibious Force
Camp Courtney, on 7 December for a
briefing; Dr John P. Slocum, Tokyo
Embassy, on 18 January for orientation
and consultation; Lt Spear, Torii
Field Station language training program
officer, on 24 January for a discussion
of FBIS monitoring of PRC television.
PRODUCTION GROUP ACTIVITIES
The DDSFT, R.E. Hineman, and his deputy, James V. Hirsch, visited,
ELAAD on 2S January to observe use of the online commercial databases.)
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The Fall 1984 issue of STUDIES IN INTELLIGENCE features an article
explaining the crucial role played by open source reporting--supplied
mainly by NEAD--in solving.the Vietnamese Order of Battle puzzle. The
exploitation of OB information from Vietnamese publications, systematically
collected since 1976, resulted in a large number of breakthroughs in the
Intelligence Community's understanding of Vietnamese military force .
structure and the publication of a considerable number of pioneering studies
from 1982 to 1984 on the Vietnamese OB.I
According to the Latin America Chief in the Strategic Intelligence
Office, Drug Enforcement Administration, the important contribution of
FBIS Foreign Press Notes, especially those on narcotics in Latin America,
was mentioned at recent interagency meetings on narcotics issues. As a
result, he requested a meetin between Production Group officers and chiefs
of DEA regional units. 7
JPRS staffers participated in a briefing of Deputy Under Secretary of
Commerce for International Trade Olin Wethington and Assistant Secretary
of Commerce and Trade Development H. P. Goldfield on Japanese attitudes on
future automobile exports to the United States on 8 February. Wethington
said that Secretary of Commerce Malcom Baldridge and Under Secretary
Lionel Olmer had read a JPRS typescript on Japanese attitudes toward extension
of the voluntary restraint agreement on automobile exports and found it very
useful for formulating policy options on the issue. The typescript was
originally prepared at the request of Assistant United States Trade
Representative Jim Murphy and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade Robert Watkins.
The Foreign Language Service Center (FLASC) produced a translation of
an almost illegible copy of a long letter by Norway's imprisoned espionage
agent Arne Treholt which accuses the FBI and CIA of complicity in his
espionage work
A NEAD officer recently located the first clear, easily mensurable,
open source photography of China's new submarine-launched ballistic missile.
Prints and viewgraphs were distributed to OSWR, NPIC, DIA, and other
components which expressed interest.)
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NEAD received a letter of appreciation addressed to the.~Cfrom
Lt Gen Richard D. Lawrence, president, National Defense Unii3s ve ity, for
briefings provided to members of the Institute for National Strategic
Studies (INSS) on developments in Asia and the Pacific. The briefings were
designed to provide background material and insights drawn from the
printed media to a group of INSS Fellows who were preparing to brief the
Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of Tnint Chiefs of Staff on
U.S. policy toward Asia and the Pacific.
At the request of the Chairman, Joint fiefs of Staff, Mitsuyo
Endicott provided interpretation services for General and Mrs. Vessey
during the two-day visit of his Japanese counterpart, Gen Keitaro
was able to fax back answers to 50 queries within 12 hours.
For the first time s`ice TSS acquired its facsimile machine, on 29
January FTD faxed queries for the ACIS system from Ohio. The TSS staff
Watanabe.
PUBLICATIONS DEVELOPMENTS
now.
The USSR report TRANSLATIONS FROM KOMMUNIST is now,beingon by a JPRS
Independent Contractor on diskette, received at JPRS via mpde On
an experimental basis, with the help of the DI's Analyst S ~o Group,
softcopy versions of these translations are being transferred into the
VM/AIM system where they will be available for search by analysts. The
IC is also now producing an index to the report using his personal computer.
This is JPRS' second indexed report, the TAP CHI CONG SAN subtitle of the
SOUTHEAST ASIA report having been computer indexed for several months
in January. Extra copies of this very popular report are available on request.
The first 219 pages of the Soviet Military Encyclopedia Dictionary,
comprising Cyrillic letters A-G were published in a two-volume JPRS report
the previous edition.
A JPRS reference aid, TERMS USED IN THE VIETNAMESE PRESS, was published
on 9 January. It contains 7,100 entries, an increase of 70 percent over
The final version of a 142-page Swahili-En lish glossary was distributed
as a JPRS reference aid dated December 1984
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ANALYSIS GROUP ACTIVITIES
At.the suggestion of the PDB Staff and with the concurrence of State,
AG prepared a I. -p ckage" of FBIS materials, including significant
media texts and~aly~'sts, for new disarmament negotiators Kampelman, Tower,
and Glitman, The package was reviewed by the new ambassadors and their
:staff, who asked to become regular recipients of relevant FBIS materials.[
The PDB Staff advised that an AG Special Memorandum, "Selected Soviet
Statements on Countermeasures Against SDI," had been passed to Secretary
Shultz during his visit to Nassau and that the document had also been
passed to Secretary Weinberger, General-Vessey, and National Security
Adviser McFarlane. The PDB Staff described the memorandum as a good
introduction capsulizes the Soviet position on countermeasures
against SDI.
Other AG products recently distributed to or used in briefings for
Vice President Bush, Secretary Shultz, General Vessey, and NSC Adviser
McFarlane include an article on the Shultz-Gromyko talks published in
the TRENDS, and an analytic wrap-up of the current Soviet position on
prospects for the Geneva arms control talks.
Ambassador Hummel in Beijing asked AG Korean analysts to compile a
full account of what Pyongyang's propaganda has said regarding the Korean
peninsula since Kim Il-s ' visit to Beijing. The Embassy wanted to
use the analysis-as a basis f r discussing Korean peninsula questions with
Chinese official's: F'
PERSONNEL AWARDS
ne t iAed iShom Pno duc tI o n Group, was pre s en ted
the Inteet Bence Commendation Medan at a cetLemony on
6 Febnuany 1985 by DDS8T Evan H-.neman.l
Communicati,on4 Section netiltee, was awarded the
Cext ieate of Merit on 12 Feb'uany 1985. The ph.e.en a Loii
was made in a ceAemony in the FBIS D-vtec to/L'.o o64ice.
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