REPORT OF ACTIVITIES OF LONDON BUREAU COVERING MONTH ENDING 15 JUNE 1948.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00557R000100030004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 28, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
LONDON BUREAU
1 Grosvenor Square,
London, W.I.
28 June 1948.
Subject: Report of activities of London Bureau covering month
ending 15 June 1948.
Tot Chief, FBIB.
From:Chief, London Bureau, FBIS.
I. Implementation of recently proposed plans and policies.
The Chief, FBIB, concluded his discussions
the month and returned to Washington. The opportunlTy or scuss ng
with him London Bureau problems afforded by his visit was extremely
beneficial to this outpost.
Representatives of Fiscal and I & S also visited this bureau
during the month. With them a complete examination of administrative
activities and procedures of the outpost was conducted.
II. Accomplishment of overall mission including firmly established
individual objectives.
The volume of wordage filed to Washington during the month
dipped slightly to a total of 835,993, as compared with the previous
month's figure of 851,094 words. Of this 835,993 words, 833,161
words were transmitted via Army Signal Corps facilities, and only
2,832 via Western Union.
G?2 EUCOA1, OIC OMGUS, and ODI OMGUS each received 111,510 words
of the gntput of the report section. The American Embassy in Paris
received 44,720 words.
A total of 186,601 words of was Also
relayed to Washington during the month.
III. Proposals for improvement.
The general review of reports, mentioned in
this section of last months report, was continued. Although this
survey is not yet concllided, on the basis of information to hand
G-2 USFA was eliminated from the distribution list.
An analysis of the London file was received from Washington.
Close study is being made of this analysis, and it is felt that
improvements can be effected in the daily London file as the result
of. this valuable guidance.
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