Meeting on Reciprocal Radio Agreements

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S05450A000100160017-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: May 6, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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SUBJECT: Meeting on Reciprocal Radio .Agreements
-pcE: 6 May 1955
1. In accordance with your letter to Mr. Botkin of May 3) on the
subject of reciprocal radio agreements, I attended a meeting in the office
of Mr. Botkin yesterday morning.
2. Present at this meeting were:
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Mr. Harold M. Botkin, Chairman, 0DM
Mr. Fred C. Alexander it
Mr. Wm. E. Plummer
Mr. Paul Barringer, Department of State
Mr. Robert G. Kreer, it
Mr. Walter F. Wood, F. B. I.
Comm. E. M. Webster, FCC
Mr. Ed Allen, it
Mr. Dean Garner, Department of Defense
3. The need for reciprocal radio agreements was discussed at
length.
Mr. Kreer and Mr. Barringer presented the State De-
partment's requirements. There was no opposition to consideration of
the subject. Comm. Webster pointed out some of the difficulties in-
volved in regulating and policing stations in embassies of foreign
countries, but was assured by Mr. Barringer that any agreements entered
into would spell out, specifically, the terms and types of operation
agreed on, and that the State Department could police such agreements.
To Comm. Webster's specific question to the State Department as to
whether the operation of a diplomatic network and the granting of re-
ciprocal radio rights to foreign nations for the purpose of strengthening
the network was in the nation's interest, Mr. Barringer said that State
felt that the operation of such a network and the granting of reciprocal
rights were truely in the national interests of the United States of
America, Comm. Webster said that he felt that such a firm position
by the Department of State would carry considerable weight with the
Federal Communications Commission.
4. t was decided that State ould prepare a
paper on t tion to Mr. Botkin, who would refer
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it to the TPC for consideration. As Chairman of TPC, Mr. Botkin said
that he would ask TPC to refer the paper to an appropriate panel or an
ad hoc committee of the ?PC for study. The TPC would then make recommen-
dations through him to the NSC on the subject.
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