INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT FOR THE VOICE OF AMERICA WITH REGARD TO SOVIET JAMMING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00400R000200030020-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: January 3, 1951
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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IAC-D-111
3 January 1951
INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT FOR THE VOICE
OF AMERICA WITH REGARD TO SOVIET JAMMING
1. The attached memorandum (TAB A) to the NSC has
been prepared to cover all of the aspects required in the
assignment regarding Soviet jamming and assistance to the
VOA including the recommendations of the USCIB Report.
2.. It is recommended that this Report be approved
and transmitted to the NSC with the USCIB Report as a
detailed study on some of the aspects.
Acting Secretary
Intelligence Advisory Committee
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SO AB A
MEMORANDUM FOR: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL
SUBJECT: Intelligence Support for the Voice of
America with regard to Soviet Jamming
Reference is made to my memorandum of September 7, 1950,
on the above subject, forwarding the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee
on Voice of'America Jamming, and noting that Recommendation 3 of
the Report regarding establishment of an additional monitoring
facility would be referred to the U.S.C.I.B.
The Chairman of USCIB has now forwarded to me the attached
report which recommends, in brief, that an additional monitoring
facility be established
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delineates the requirements in terms of facilities, personnel and
equipment for the establishment of such a facility. This U.S.C.I.Bo
report and its recommendations have the unanimous approval of IAC.
In the light of the USCIB report and further consideration
of the problem, the IAC now submits, for the consideration of the
Council in connection with NSC 66, the following final recommenda-
tions which incorporate the recommendations of the USCIB report and
the recommendations of the earlier IAC report, appropriately revised:
1.; That a readjustment of priorities among existing intelli-
gence tasks or a reallocation of the use of existing intelligence
facilities should not be undertaken.
2.. That there should be established an additional monitoring
activity to obtain and provide information on current Soviet radio
communication activities which will assist the VOA in its program
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and assist other US Goverment communications services in combat-
ting present and future Soviet radio interference, and that this
additional monitoring activity be established, coordinated and
operated as follows:
a. The initial program for this activity should be under-
taken along the lines suggested in Enclosure 2 of the USCIB
Report of 28 November 1950.
b. This activity should monitor and locate Russian
jamming signals and other interfering transmitters and should
convey promptly and continuously to the VOA and other interested
US communications services such resulting information as will
assist them to improve their reception.
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3. That the CIA assume overall responsibility to:
a. Coordinate the collection of information concerning
Russian jamming from all non-monitoring sourceso
b. Serve as the collection point for this information
and assure that such of this information as will assist the
VOA and other government communications services to improve
their reception on a daily basis is passed promptly and con-
tinuously to these services. The CIA, with the assistance of
the Special Assistant, Intelligence, Department of State, should
determine and establish such security arrangements and channels
of dissemination as may be required to pass this information
to the VOA; these arrangements and channels to be determined
in the light of materials made available.
c. Undertake, in conjunction with the other intelli-
gence agencies, a coordinated program for the collection,
evaluation and dissemination of such information as will be
useful in the long-range analysis of Russian radio inter-
ference and in the development of counter-measures,
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PROPOSED REVISION --IAC-D-11/1
INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT FOR VOICE OF AMERICA
WITH RESPECT TO SOVIET JAMMING
1. The following revisions are recommended to clarify
the paper and CIA's responsibility to this project:
Paragraph 2, line 3, strike "radio communication,"
substitute "electromagnetic warfare."
Paragraph 2, sub d, should read: "This activity
should be thoroughly coordinated by CIA with existing
non-AFSA monitoring activities."
Paragraph 2.e., strike in toto.
Paragraph 3.a., strike "non-monitoring."
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