PROPOSED VISIT TO EUROPE OF MR. J. L. HORNUNG, OSI (P&E)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00765A000100030111-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: June 13, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Foreign Broadcast Information Division DATE: JUN 13 1955
FROM : Chief, Electromagnetic Warfare Branch, P&E/SI
sUBJacr: Proposed Visit to Europe of OSI (P&E)
1. This is to advise that subject officer has been
designated to conduct a seminar in Munich, Germany, for the
Standardization and Coordination of Technical Monitorins
Methods and Data for Broadcast Evaluation Purposes add for
determining the Technical Effectiveness of International
Broadcasting.
2. The seminar will be conducted during the week of
18 July 1955, ending 22 July 1955, for monitoring officers
of VOA, RFE, and Radio Liberation.
3. Arrangements have been made throudk
to visit the BBC facilities at Tatsfield and Woofertoin for
purposes of familiarization.
will be accompanied by
4
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of OCD also for purposes of familiarization with re;;ard to
the BBC monitoring activities.
5 re expected to
arrive in London, England, on the 27th of J.me, 1955, for a 25X1
stay of approximately three (3) days.
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RE UR 075 CAMPBELL. CLARK AND LEAN SUGGEST LETTER OPEN BY
REGRETTING NECESSITY THIRD APPROACH ON SUBJECT ALREADY BROACHED
BY LETTER TO FOPEIGN OFFICE LAST YEAR AND VERBALLY TO FIELD
MARSHAL ALEXANDER AND DIRECTOR GENERAL JACOB IN LONDON IN
SEPTEMBER. MONITORING NOT OBVIOUSLY A PERMANENT INTELLiO NCE
ACTIVITY OF ALL MAJOR POTERS AND IN COLD ''AR HAS SPECIAL
POLITICAL IMPORTANCE FOR WEST. THIS SEEMS SORT OF POLITICAL
AND INTELLIGENCE FIELD WHERE ANGLO AMER I CAN COOPERATION SHOULD
BE RECIPROC?.L? NO MAJOR COSTS INVOLVED AND SEEMS ECONOMICALLY
SENSIBLE LONDON SHOULD COVER EUROPE AND PART OF RUSSIA IN
RETURN FOR UNITED STATES COVERAGE OF REST OF WORLD.
FOR SO',"ETIME DETECTED TENDENCY IN B3C TO SHIFT MAXI:SU'cI
DUTIES TO UNITED STATES 's'JHILE IBC REDUCED COVERAGE0 IN MARCH
CAMPBELL AND LEAN NOTIFIED SWEEPING REDUCTIONS OF COVERAGE IN
WEST AND EAST EUROPE B3C ASKED WHAT HELPFUL RESPONSE VIE COULD
MAKE TO THIS AND TO FURTHER REDUCTIONS CONTEMPLATED. UNITED
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO MAKE A COPY OF THIS MESSAGE CCPY NO.
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STATES REPLY BOUND TO BE THAT COVERAGE 19ILL BE 'M'ADE GOOD BY
UNITED STATES EXPANSION INTO SPHERE HITHERTO COVERED BY BR6TAINa
THESE REDUCTIONS AS UNACCEPTABLE TO UNSSTATE'S, AS THEY
MUST BE TO GENERAL INTEREST OF UN I TED i( NGDOyi AND ~SH TO
REGISTER GREAT CONCERN AT SUGGESTION OF MTED i:INGDOi6 THAT
"'E F:rEND OUR PRESENT ACTIVITY BEYOND EXISTVNG SAT;SFACTGR'"
BASES AND CONTP,NUE TO EXCHANGE FOR RAPIDLY D'W,YMD4,ING BE;C
COVERAGE.
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