COPENHAGEN RADIO PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500730162-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 162
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGEN AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Germany (U. ^ one)
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Frankfurt
593 Kcso
Stuttgart
1061 Kcs;
Munich I
1554 Kcs.
Eayreu th
54B Kcs
Berlin
611 Kcso
DATE DISTR. / .March 1950
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Nuremberg and Hof 160:: (at prest3nt ?50) oolver 20.
Bremen 1358 (at present 527) power 2.
RIAS 989 Kcs. power 100 kw.
RIAS over Hof 719 Kcs. power 20 kw.
The Voice of America will be broadcast over Munich on 1196 Kcs.,
power 50 kw.
The transmitters of AFN (American Forces Network) will broadcast
over:
operation.
Frankfurt 1439 Kcso (at :;resent 1435 i-cs.)
Stuttgart 575 (at present 574) power 100.
Munich 728 (at present '74( Dower 100. 1
The following information was monitored from Bad Vilbel, DPA, G6i-man
Press Service transmitting in German Hellschreiber for Western Zones
on 13 March at 1816 0T:
.Frankfurt,-- A spokesman of the United States High Commissariat
today announced the following wave lengths to be used by the
broadcasting stations in the United States occupied area from
15 March when the Copenhagen wave length plan comes into
NAVY
AIRI
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power 10 ktiw
power 50 Inr
power 100 kw
power 10 kw
power 1 kw
frequencies with a very
entire area jcupied by
small radiation
United States
The Director of the Office for Public Affairs attached to the
United States High Commissariat, Ralph Nicholson, in a statement
to the press said that the Copenhagen wave length plan failed
to do justice to the requirements of the United States Zone
!and Sector of 3erli.n,0 The United States of America was not
Further 3 number of other
area will be used for the-
'Forceso
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signatory tc the and i:._d in fact raised objections on
is conclusiion r+s ~ ell as on later occasions.
Under the 'rrpenha;^en i'lan the United States territory was
to have received only two wave lengths, Nicholson drew
attention to the fact that the new ,rave lengths now allocated
were '.einr used Jointly ,rith other uropean countries --
only those Ito be used by Nuremberg - ! of and AFN Berlin
are in accordance with the Copenhagen Agreement. Every
effort would be made to avoid :interfering with foreign broad-
casting statiions ., "irection-t1 aerials were to be built,
for instance, to this and. The Jnited States was willing as
far as possible to remedy the clashing of wave lengths in
cooperation'' !with the European countries,
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