FIRST PROGRESS REPORT TO OCB BY THE BROADCAST EVALUATION SECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000300060036-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: October 3, 1955
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3 October l95"\\ 5
MEM ORMi SUM FOR: Executive Officer '
Operations Coordinating Board
StJCT: First Progress Report to OCB by the
Broadcast Evaluation Section
1. A Broadcast Evaluation Section was established in the
Office of Scientific Intelligence to give effect to a requirement
imposed on the Central Intelligence Agency by 24SC-l69. The latter
paper prov ides that the establishment of the Evaluation Mechanism
by CIA is to be "in conjunction with the Department of State, the
Department of Defense, and the U.S. Information Agency, and under,
the coordination of the Operations Coordinating Board."
2. In view of the latter statement, I have had prepared the
attached "First Progress Report" for the information of the Board.
3. You will note that this report covers a summary of
activities to date, the principal problems encountered, and measures
taken and. contemplated to obtain answers to them. It also ircludes,
in Part II, an estimate of the technical effectiveness of U.S.
broadcasting to Iron Curtain countries in general terms as we now
see it,. with a feu examples of specific determihations. The general
estimate is that in spite of the effort put into the jamming of
U. S. International broadcasting, the effect of the jarrming varies
widely with frequency band, geographic location, and target language;
and the programs are frequently reaching wide sections of the target
areas. It is not feasible to make this estimate cover all aspects
of target areas, frequency bands, times of day, sponsors, and
languages because of the many combinatic5ans possible with differing
qualifications as to certainty of the. conclu3ion. Enough examples
have been Included, perhaps, to Indicate the kind. of specific
questions which might be levied on the Broadcast Evaluation Section.
i~. An Important section in the report covers the question of
interpretation of the statistical reports of the BroadcastraluatIon
Section. Since the figures are derived from monitoring observations
in a very special way, they iwit e used with understandings and
since the monitoring observations- themse ves_ e.re Asa ect-to se ?al
qualifications, these figures must be used wi caustic as wel? well.
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? SUBJECT: c'Irat progress Report to OCB by the
Broadcasting Evaluation Section
5. Subsequent progress reports could be made annually if the
Board feels such reporting is desirable. In that event, I would
be glad to have the Board's suggestions as to the nature of future
reports. ire order to make them as useful as possible.
eRBERT SCOVILLE, J.
Assistant Director
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