JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE CHIEF FBIB

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 5, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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SEE I VFRSE FOi DLCLASSIFICATION ACTION
Chief, Personnel Branch
Attertiont C.lasrifioation Section
5 April 1948
Chief, FBIA
Job De.criptior: for the Chief, 1`BI
Peruuaxit to your oral request, the following information is considered
pertinent to the job description for the Chief, FBI! In addition to that which
it contained in the job description at now written.
Under general direction of the Assistant Director, Office of Operations,
P-8, has complete delegated authority for planning, organising, and directing
the world-wide functions of the Foreign Broadcast Information Branch which is
charged with the responsibility for performing "all Federal eonitoring and
processing of foreign and clear tenet radio broadcasts and such monitoring of
foreign wireless transmissions in recognized international codes as are required
for the collection of intelligence information related to the national security."
To accomplish this mission the Chief, FBIB, attends Secret and Top Secret
ituation Lectures by Research Specialists, Ambassadors, Military Attaches, etc.
and reads Secret and Top Secret Situation Reports in order to keep abreast of
the world situation. By knowledge gained through this means and by maintaining
and directing liaison with top-level officials not only in CIA but in the State,
Navy, Army and Air Force Departments, establishes inte.ligence objectives to be
accoakilished by the monitoring system. On his own responsibility and initiative
directs the activities of the organisation to as to obtain the maximum intelligence
information in accordance with the knowledge gained through the method outlined
above.
F81B is the sole unit of the U.S. Government which is charged with main-
taining, for the Government, up-to-date data on the foreign radio stations of
the world, and for the analysis of each station to include the total number of
hours broadcast each day, the percentage which is devoted to items which may be
of intelligence value,language and frequency on which the station broRd"s,
who controls the station, and its characteristics.
Having studied the above, the Chief, YBIB s"Iect,,g -p1r trans, Lt . its ed
and directs their coverage through chiefs off s located Tokyo,!
Japan, Kau&i, T.H., Portland, Oregon, Silv il]q,'fir y , 1AwA _ l nd, \
and Cairo, Egypt,, these chiefs of stations\bbeing dtrecotlq _ros.F~ible to he
Chief, FBI8, in Washington. These stations` are ?ptmtled wi' '4rlaio engineers,
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linguists, editors, analysts, and administra~ti`re' an A sopsrvisory personnel..-
numbering from 30 persons in Tokyo to approxlmtrt 1) ] in.Cfjro.
The selected programs are intercepted by '':thus rtEdio. st f'f, monitored,
recorded and translated by the linguistic etas' , ?.?ew t analyzed by the
editors and analysts, and the copy selected on A. biaais of targets furnished
by the Chief, ?BIB, transmitted daily via teletype to rssington. When
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requested, and at the direction of the Chief, FBIB, Field Stations furnish
special services to U.S. policy-making officials and intelligence agencies
located in their prosisity. At present the Tokyo Bureau, furnishes an average
of 9,300 selected words per day to G-2 Far last Command in Tokyo; and 4500
words per day, principally of intercepts from Northern Korea, to the Commanding
General, U.S. Armed Forces in Korea. The Aawaii bureau furnishes the Coazaanding
General, U.S. Any Forces, Mid-Pacific in Bawsii with some 20,000 words per day.
The London Bureau furnishes a summarised daily round-up to the lsbassdors and
11111tary Attaches in London and Paris and to the Commanding uaeerale of the U.S.
zones of occupation in Germany and Austria. Special studies have also been
prepared in Landon for the Secretary of State during the London Conference and
daily round-ups for the representative of the Secretary of State now attending
the Freedom of Information Conference in Geneva.
Of approximately 10000000 words broadcast daily by 2,000 foreign trans-
mitters, ThIS field stations, together with BBC in London, monitor approximately
2,)O0,00O words per daay of which a selected 100,000 are filed to Washington
which office is, as well as the field stations, in operation 24 hours per day,
7 deyc per week. In Washington, a selected 15-20,000 words are transmitted via
teletype to the International Broadcasting Division of the State Department in
Now fork.
The Washington office selects, edits and prepares for distribention
api roximately 75,000 words per day for the 78I8 Daily tteport and Weekly Surveys,
which Surveys constitute a factual analysis of U radio broadcasts. Some 1300
copes of the Daily Report are published daily and 350 copies of the Weekly
Sur'vt-y are published weekly.
Special Reports which constitute factual analysis of the large volume of
broadcasts on a particular subject are prepared and issued as dictated by world
affairs and events. These are prepared either an the initiative of the Chief,
FBIB, or in reply to specific collection requests calling for handling of
highly classified information. Such special studies have included furnishing
the Secretary of State special reports prior to and during the Moscow and London
Conferences; special reports prepared for the Director of CIA for transmission
to the President on reactions to the President's speech of lurch 17th, and many
other important subjects such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, *to.
The Chief, F8I8 is responsible for the personal inspection and direction
of the field stations and their coordination with the other intelligence activities
of the U.S, and British Intelligence Service and Broadeastinng Cora oration. Such
responsibility entails high level conferences with such policy-making officials
as G-2, Far Eastern Cosmaand, ?okyro, the Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces,
id-Pacific, Port Shs,fter, T.14., the Ambasvadors, and kilitary Attaches in London
and Cairo, the Colonial Governor and staff on Cyprus, the Director of the British
Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, representatives of the British
Intelligence Service, and others.
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The Chief, YBIB is responsible to the Director for the selection of sites
for new ststiona, for supplying the technical advice for planning and construction
of such stations, for the selection and staffing of the stations and transfer
of personnel, equipment, etc., thereto in order to implement the operation. One
such station is near completion at Reseda, California, to which the present
Portland station will be transferred in the near future. Three additional
new stations have been approved by the Director and are to be constructed during
the next 12 monthat one on Okinawa to replace Kauai, one on Cyprus to replace
the one in Cairo, and one at Redgeneck, Md. (near Fort Washington) to replace
Silver Fill and coMbine, in the interest of efficiency, certain parts of the
operation now in the Washington office. This involves the expenditure of
approximately $2,000,030 during the next few months, in addition to the norasi
FIB expenditures.
TSIB monitors a total of approximately 30 language, has a total of 350
employees including foreign nationals, and spends approximately $2,10W#000 per
year.
Upon the Chief, FBIB falls the ultimate responsibility for this satire
operation in all of its detail.
L. K. SITE
Chief, FIB
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