VALUE OF LONDON ROUNDUPS IN WASHINGTON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200020089-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: April 26, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, FIll
Acting Chiet, ?BID
value of London Roundups in Washington.
1. lat.rnal Fgll~ s
a. To Editorial Division, roundups arc eo o top
broadcasts to insure proper treateaut in Daily Deport,
b. To Special Saporta, hussisn Roundups of great value on Thursdays
and Fridays as last-hour ahsok on significant dcvelopsusntsl on a daily
basis it is also the Only source of information an multiple beaming of
Soviet broadcasts.
o. These purposes would be served squally well by a log of the London
file transmitted every eight hours similar to the East Coast and Western
aureau logs, provided that data on multiple beaming were included, lush
a substitution would presumably effect a Saving of new-hours in London,
which night well be utilised for editorial i*provsa nt (rather than
addition of woriagss) to the file.
8. User Offiosis
a. IID insists an getting terse Russian roundup by wire, agreeing
reluctantly to airmail for the otherse
b. A survey of rsoipients of the restricted Drily Hspert shows only
scattered interest in the roundups swing isstorn Buropean desks. Eastern
E'uropssn divisions, however, are umsaimous In preferring the roundups in
present or modified farm to inor.ased textual wordage. A heavy incidence
of voluntary oaaoant and suggestion indicates genuine interest.
3. Conclusions
a. From oonsumer standpoint, roundups west be oontinu.d?
b. The oonswser survey did not differentiate aasng the Russian,
Germa and. satellite roundups. .narks and consent, however, suggest
that osmolmsiea s nay apply categorically only to the Mussiaa roundup,
and that a compromise .liainatien of the satellite roundup, or oven of
the Gorms-n, would not be a serious lose to oonsumers. Definition of
this possibility, however, would require further consultation with user
Offices.
o. A more complete swwary of survey r2s4 a to being prepared for
dispatch this week. ? ',o
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