REDUCTIONS IN FOREIGN BROADCAST MONITORING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200050117-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: February 25, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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Assistant Director, ORE 25 February 1949
Assistant Director, 00
Reductions in Foreign Broadcast ionitoring
1. The Read of the B.BS konitoring Service has informed iihief,
FEIB, that budget limitations require the Service, among other cuts
in its operations, to reduce its coverage of Finland, Scandinavia
and the Russian Baltic states, and to discontinue almost completely
its monitoring of voice broadcasts from the western zones of Germany
and Austria. FBIB will be able to make compensatory increases in
its on monitoring of Scandinavia and to a smaller extent Finland,
but cannot monitor the Russian Baltic states nor the German trans-
mitters at any of its locations.
2. Although the reduction of coverage is regretted, this
office believes that the present significant yield from these seg-
ments of monitoring is not great and that if cuts are necessary
the areas in which to make them have been well chosen.
3. Your comments on the above reductions are requested. With
regard to Germany, it should be noted that full coverage of the Soviet
Zone will be continued, and monitoring of DANA and DPD Western Zone
news services will be maintained.
/j/
GEORGE G. CAREY
CG/ri3f .Z
23 i h 1949
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