PROGRESS REPORT FOR AUGUST 1953

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• Publication Date: September 9, 1953
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:Assistant Director for OpOatiett
Acting Chief, FBID
Progress Report:for Aligust 1953
.-ADMINISTRATION
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,l. 'A molded Table of Organization based?Abon.the allocated. FBID
ceiling at wila sObmitted to' the 50X1
Ashistant Direetor for Operations. "-During the non. h'ohe person entered
on duty and for were terninated,:teducing the Onsdntyllgore ton7 50X1
SeVenteenLapplicatione of,prospectivejennloyees,Pro in protest:,
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'2.--;.-06hatrifotion of the new West .Coast Bureau Station at Santflota, i
California, prodeediedsatisfeetorili..iFoundationa for-the operations
building were poured, and reinforcing Steel is being itetalled,forjthe.
concrete floor.' The:auniliaryladildingeonerete floor was poured end
the walls are complete.': The antenna field was surveyed and hardware
on all antenna poles was inatalled: Arrange/tents weteucomOleted through
OA for teletyWcommunicatione vie Aungfr,signala between Santallotai,, ?
Reseda, and Washington. Service mill temnenco'inspprOxiMately two wean.
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't 3. The Cfilef,-DkindwaPoreau, Acopptedithe first group of eight:
ffiervenenthoutos from the contractori. subject tel the contractor's respenti-
? bilityarHany-datageS redultingfirom teelteiinuntested electrical in.
Stallatienn. ?Electric mains will to 'ingtalled Open? receipt of wire from
. the U. S. inSentenber. Funds in the Anpuntra t4,500 were authorized
Wthe-DD(I):for'installation of venetian blinds inall 16 newboo:See.
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,Contactuithofficials of theiDireitorate of installations, USAF,
on 27 August 1953 revealed that there has been no Change in the status
..Of the USAF Bolo Point AirJleid?project. The project still awaits epsf
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,proval[Of the allies of the Secretary:of Defense., "
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5. On 00 initiative:the name of the Ppedial Reports-Brandh was
changed to Radio Propaganda 'handl.? .
JOPERATIONs
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4. 6., Investigation of thitiiigata area aweivalternate mite for the
BehRtido Bureau continued.. It was estahlishod..that the nal" wells in
the antennaliad are tn. fact gas wells whichirill not constitute toarced
? :of reception interference. It is reliably reported that one of-the in,
? ?^toriering power lines in the area will be removed in 6.6*4 1954 rupon con.
? 'Clisitin of the current drilling program. Further studyamens of
elininating reception interference from another power line, which'eppears
to be the sole remaining technical obstacle, is continuing. Appropriate
? instructions have been furnished Chief?ohyo Bureao to conclude all in.
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testigation8 in order that a depision'may be made.
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SECURITY. INFORMA1IOr:1
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7. Two Ruesian.language PerSonnel-of 0#2* first Cavalry DiVieion*
? have been 406igned to the FBIS Hokkaido Bureau on Willis monitors for
? %the month of September as the result of areqUest to HQ; AM; through
the Chief* Tokyo.Bareau. At the principal objective IA to batter the
? :Staff pending Arrival of now manitorrecrdito* the possibility of fur..
? ther,aesigtment is to be reviewed'in10 days.
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8.. The Chief* Okinawa BUreeue departed 18 August on 4 recruiting
triptoSeutheast Asia in search of MineterEurMese* IiVionesion; Thai*
and-lhulpian monitor candidatedi ;Preliminary report() indicate satisfac-
tory results to date and little need for extending the trip to Indonesia*
? Australia or New Zealand.
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9.- At the requestOf Pp* techniCaI observation of -"Radio liberation"
-transmissions to the USSMiwas:inaugurated. Weekly reports, continuing ?
into September, Are being made. All of the transmissions are
heavily jammed. A166 at the request of Pp the Mediterranean Buteau.hae
-.undertaken extensive special 'recording Of'Redio tbsdow?brodattoth to tit
Middle &stand-South AMA in Arabic* English* Hindi* ad-tend:1.
10. technical observation of newly inaugurated VOA megawatt trans-
mitten at Smith And Okinawacieheing tenduetedbythe?Mediterranean
and Okinawa Bureaus respectively* the former to assist the VOA
-tration Of Soviet jamming And the latter primarily for protection of
FBID inter este. Agreed to regaieWtests of the Okinawa 'VOA trans.=
, :Atter subject to the provision that testing deast,immediately upon
local,notification by !BIS of impairment to mpnitoring coverage.
11. $ix waks of coordinated interception of the Kyreniasiondon '
file by the Batt Coast Bureau With its riev' triple diversity-receiving
? synterahaVe:tetted an Average reduction in relay ofthejile-by London
Bureau amounting to apprOximatelione4thind* or nearly 10,006 groups-
per day. 7 This entails duchsiderable"saVing in traffic space end average
reduction of one hour per message in transmission time. The latter
greatly facilitated prompt ,reporting of the Iranian coup : on 19 Aug-est
'When Radio Teheran broadcadts.werefor 4 Considerable period the solo
source of informatiOn,onthis subject.
I2? -A project for probe clipping and analysis Service At the German
Buteau,in support of BI(E') requirements was Approved by tho Project Review
Committee on 2 September 453.. Arrangements are being made with MID ler
transfer of a classifiedemTloyee to Frankihrt to Organise and initiate
the Service. ,
13. A special report on 'i!Menitoring services of Foreign Countriet"
wee prepared by the Broadcast Information :Section at the request of OCT.
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SECURITY INFORMATION Le,
?,11t. An extensive language recording project 'principally for training
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pUrPoses has been requested%of MID through OCT. Sine& its scope extendsi
to praCtically every audible broadcast language; and Since a large'velume
of tape recordings is involved; FRIO agreed to'cooperate Only On a nen-
" firibtity basis withno time limit. This conditiorrwas acceptable to all
concerned; 'A survey of available.1anguageS is beingUndertaken as the
first :step. .
190..DAD/C requested spacial high-quality recording and tranolation
of,Aioscowts'Worth American Eervide to include hal totting of dimdayet
broadcasts; It is expected that the project will he completed by the.
East Coast Bureau mtd.transmitted to Cid before mid-September. 'A:tore'
? eXteneiVe terting projectextendingUver six Menthe was CoMpleted by
the West Coast Bureau; involving transcription of 29 RS disc record-
ings requested by Contacts Division.
- '160 Four reports were issued in the last half of the tenth under the
? newmPropeginda RepOrtnt title; oil Lout falling into the Intelligence
? Probleis Series. They dealt -With the Soviet nationalities policy; the
pkincipleuf:"Cellective leadership"lA the European Satellites; the .
North &reeds leadership purge; and the Soviet thermonuclear announcements.
Earlier; a spot report *Showing po'le Change in COmmuniat comment On Iugo-
slevia hod been issued as a Supplement to the USSR'Survey.',. /
174 Contributiona to estimates on Tropical Africa and Indonesia.
were Subtitted in typeadript to ONE.
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16. Typelciipt reports Were Prepared for .00I-OWittediate foreign
radio reactions to the Iranian coup. and On indications in Worlds's/id? non- '
.Communietbroadcasts,Of factors effecting U. S. prestige troad'sinee
?:1 March 1953.
? 190 An examination Of the answers to the 1953 cOnsumr questionnaire
on Radio Propaganda Branch publications shows a majority of recipients of
? the USSR Survey preferring the "Propaganda Report" type of study if both
:types cannotbepublished. Recipients Of the Far East Suriey;'.howeter; do
not agree; presumably because few Far East studies Of the new type have
? been issued. +Tabulated results: are as follows:
USSR SURVEY
?Piefer new ty?55, including 19 indicating "great" value
'Prefer Sunni ? 'la; including 15 indicating "great" value
.No indications ' 6, including 2 indicating "great" value
Prefer new type:
Prefer Survey: '
Re indication:
FAR EAST SURVEY
21; ittelhding 5 'indicating "great" value
32; including 8 indicating "great" value.
7; including 1 indicating "great" value.
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ail averages of Field Bureaus ROGER 0. SEELY
'. Local Services by Field Bureaus
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. Daily Average of Field Puteau Production, AuOist 1953.
Averages computed on basis of 5 day vreek.
HOURS
81.1 A8 M8NIT0RED
Tokyo
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Okinawa
Saigon
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East? Coast?
Loadoh
Peri,Art,
Auttria
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.Totals
87 34,000-
1.31 3/4 32,800
280 1/2 50;100.
7 1/4 8,0002v
;61/2 ?51,20o?
,64 - ,410.03 238
746 219,862
950
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totlea. Servi.cei r tta byMA Buret
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Daily *Ph ef iSlay6citeilito :Ott .tior*so bro6,4ottotb are :tteldtvoSit
si.?milers in liOndon:saft-?Ident by 144re to :oototta.-1-- welotora- ? - -
to metiers& Ds 'en .6174:iced' le London; ?ant .The .i
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..Ortpaisationt.and SflAPS. AftQ,'OOO.mortutoloetion-!treit Botriet icon'. Satellite
broadoest-c !initiator-ea at Lonion aM the K itez'ranetn DfAroau Sc troaraitted.
.6atty, W tare- !erstVitidori to the Munich Ina- of the Voice of Aner10.. and ,
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to the -,Gettat 131-iroau for -trantnaiits1 to lthe !Mee ?.CcrooSite-Chtup,- Prank.;
cfult Plilitasvy 'Peet .Joitc-otber 'Um/ tentitthers-
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?All ;igietietleed naterlakiit 'Alen to iltiCeS.lin Bonn eM Prenicissit aid to .
7997th_oinvornta ierouti, Piantrisit lillitety Pont. * Tientelrolgs iitteateciiit
are ?Guyed to the thialel OtittiOS of the Voice of Anieticai
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broacaeail Isiterial St Ilitse. tablid i Af l'o.2113 biiiiiion? filal.o-
tart. Pr= this office it is ditte#cotdit to G42, USAPt-end the US Conatilete
in sal.thurg. The complete ti1 ,is ;b1so relayed to the Mlle Intottotion
" Divisions Deiecnarters, USAF, iSalseburerthe Dailit:Press Soviet it Int-piled
to the Political Division, US tsot 13y eta the tenthly Seonlitit
Report Ito the Baporta end Statistical Branch, US Spatial. Middies for EdbMuliC
CoatzteratiOW, t :Mt
' tvietalraiiih lialilage intercepts ere aisttha to the .Amoticat :lathaSaies
in Botbatal and. iBehbran. Sttharide of toriet4curitibh lontooge brOtseteaatt .dha
*toccata Arabic eaterial Srcia Iran,,- Jordan, St, ana Syria ,are cent to
the -American itobectr, B ? Selectee ao.l1in mitt:Trial is siltation to the
American ssy in Athens. .Procested Stens 'elating to Cyprus :are sent to
the Colonial Secrete.* in ilicosis. Monitored .sur#arieS and fproccos...ftd taterial
Ixtm all Soviet regional stotions adjacent to Pakistan are Jaifteiled to the
An1cth Thfbanny rachI"
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Drotenced 'intercebta are :filed to Tokyo for 'PM staff ,sectionm
a?.iiiCe3reta ltatieriat Is filet to the US 'Etshatay, Pusan.
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gelected iteng ontormunist 'China home, regional ark humeral code broad-
caritt are filed to Saigon for the French Monitoring Se.rvice. All South
Korean laterdepts are teat to 0-2, Eighth Amy end FEAP. Weekly shalneti
of ?Canitunist China international and regional 'broadcasts are filed to
FEC, iTorizro . Legs of Vietnam News Agency (Ho Government) and iGHM (unidentified
_Communist station) Items, arid. ell Coeds/ National Retistanbe Front material
are transaiitied.\to FBIS, Saigon, for local disseniaation. Selected Pychgvang
?PAking and Vietnam material is transmitted to 13-2 rtruktud Commbhd.: The World
Health Organization Epidemiological Bulletin is transmitted to FPAP; Tokyo
weekly. UN programs beamed to Karea'and,China are 'eported once a 'month to
TEC and MAP,- Tokyo: Daily reports oh the behavior of the Republic of ;Korea
and Voice Of Baited Nations radios are 'filed to :EEC, To1:70: ?
Saigon BUreat
All iiiroCeited material if; filed to FEC, 'Tay* slid taisissa. the American
Ef al:darned in Siagen and !Planta Penh, USIS iSaigon, and the Any Attache in ,
Saigon. ' Selected material is furnished the 'Poreiga,Uperationa Adtinittratich.
Information ,Division, the Military Assistance Advisory 'Group and the American
'Embeds? in Seldom.- '
:Te1(yo_Saretit
? All proceabed intercepts are sent to staff seictioria of Me All
?Japanese snd Mongolian materia.l. from Peking, and Korean and Mandarin
'material from Motcov is furnished Far East Air Force. 'Korean material is
filed to the Eighth .An and the'Americon Embassy in Pusan. Selected
timaterial is furnished Civil ,Infortation and !Education Section,US Civil
AdminittrEitioa, Vomitus. lE4 progam'r t beamed to Korea tad Chia ere
Sported once,a month to PEC and FEAF, TO*. Selected ChintS interaft?
tional Service material IS filed to USIS, Port ass. All material monitored
in :Japanese it furnished the Americesi?Embassy, in Tokyo.
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Hokkaido 'Bureau
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An proeeteZ*1 intercepts are !furnished Readquaitera,HPEC and MAP in
Tokyo, !end 0???2 let Cavalry Division, Can -Crawford. 'Weather reports from
USSR Set-Dial Catering? Tare furniahed Field Research 'Unit; PEC. All au=aries
of Ulon 'Bator Russian Broadeasts are farhiShed Docautente Retearch Section,
FEC. Solt recordings of sblected rtutpitinregiotiz* broadcasts are Made and.
de/ivered. to FEC, Takyo.
Wett_COarit :Burkett
Selected, material is filedto EEC to. PEW, Tokyo The en' tire I:ARABIA
!file intercoted at the Vett Coast Bureau it teletyped. th MAP, SOW?.
East Coast _Bureau
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tasty dittribUtiOn of an epidemiological iriaIetin of the %Mad. Health 1
Organization it Made to OSI.
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FEID?EONTHLY PERSONNEL REPORT
August, 1953
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Effective Date
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Name Title Grade Assignment
West Coast Bureau
13 August 1953
parations:
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Assignment
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Resignation
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Bast Coast Bureau
Office of the :Thief
Resignation
26 August 1953
Radio Propaganda pr.
Resignation
7 August 1953
Engit1'erLn1 Staff
Resignation
21 August 1953
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3.. Promotions:
!aici Ass4gnment
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Clerk-Steno Intell Asst
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Editor
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Nati-Monitor
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Info Spec (Fgn Erdest)
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Electronic Eng
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Publications Editor
CS-13
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16 August 1953
16 Lug.t 1953
16 August 1953
6 August 1953'
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Reassignment :
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New Grade, Title, Aaaigment
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19 July 1953
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Editorial Branch
Toles Typwr Opr, GS-5
"Librarian', OS-5
2 August 1953
Meet Coast Bureau
West Coast Bureau
Electron Eng, 08-12
Blectron Eng, GS..12
1 August 1953
Bast Coast Bureau
Okinawa Bureau
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Acting Chief, FBID
.Acting Administrative Officer* FBI!)
Notes for Progress Report o August
31 August 1953
to 1955 Budget estimates and supplemental Budgetary. estimates
for spedial_projects, 1955 werflompleted.
? 2. A revised Table of Otianitation.based upon an allocated
coiling of ponitions was pit:vase& 50X1
Action was taken to TOVOke travel plans ofirected personnel.
.3.. During the month one person entered on duty and
sighationtwore accepted, bringibg the an duty figure to
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