FIRST PROGRESS REPORT TO OCB BY THE BROADCAST EVALUATION SECTION

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• Document Release Date: July 13, 1998
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
1EI OB TM FOR: Executive Officer
Operations Coordinating Board
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
iMosed on the Central Intelligence Agency 'by NBC-169. The latter
paper provides 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 bad 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 includes,
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 few examples of specific determinations. The general
estimate is that in spite of the effort put into the jamming of
U.S. international broadcasting, the effect of the jamming 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, time of day, sponsors, and
languages because of the many, combinations possible with differing
qualifications as to certainty of the conclusion. Enough examples
have been included, perhaps, to indicate the kind of specific
questions which might be levied on the Broadcast Evaluation Section.
An important section in the report covers the question of
interpretation of the statistical reports of the Broadcast Evaluation
Section. Since the figures are derived from monitoring observations
in a very special way, they must be used with understanding; and
since the monitoring observations themselves are subject to several
qualifications, these figures mast be used with caution as well.
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8UBJE T: First Progress Report to OCB by the
Broadcasting Evaluation Section
5.. Subsequent progress reports could be m4e 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 in order to se them as useful as possible.
MMM SCOVILLE, JR.
Assistant Director
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