LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300150026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 23, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chiefs, FBIS Field Bureaus
FROM: Chief, FBIS
SUBJECT: Letter of Instruction
GENERAL
23 January 1957
1. Liaison Officer will leave at the 50X1
end of January forte. tour of the West Coast and Far Eastern Bureaus.
Information and instructions concerning this trip have been forwarded
to the bureaus conberned. (Unclassified)
2. Upon the acquisition of suitable equipment, the Austrian
Bureau initiated monitoring of the Bratislava television transmitter
and has filed several editorial reports to Washington. Technical
adjustment of sound and video which marred early monitored programs
disappeared in later transmissions. (Confidential)
3. After some delay, USIA advised that copies of reports on its
Helsinki television monitoring project would henceforth be supplied to
FBIS. (Confidential)
4. Construction: (Unclassified)
a. The final phase of the Okinawa housing construction
is 76% complete.
b. Real Estate and Construction Division has approved a
Sonoma County request for a waterline right-of--gay across
West Coast Bureau property. GSA, San Francisco, is con-
ducting the negotiations. The pipe line will be constructed
in such a way as to cause no interference with bureau
operations. A tap in the line will be made to permit .
drawing of water should it ever become necessary to abandon
the station well.
EDITORIAL COMMENT (Unclassified)
1. General
a. It has been decided to increase the number of targets
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cabled weekly to the field, with particular emphasis on
those targets which mention meetings, specific dates,
place names and the names of' persons attending such
meetings.
b. Effective Wednesday, 30 January, a roundup of material
from and about the Middle East will appear in the Western
Europe and Near East Daily Report once each week. The
roundups will be prepared underthe supervision of the
Projects Editor. It is not at this time contemplated
that field bureaus will be required to prepare special
roundups for this added service, but field editors should
bear in mind the current importance of the Middle East
in selection of material.
c. At the request of several consumers, PSIS will soon
increase the scope and frequency of its World Reaction
Reports. Such publiCations will continue to be regarded
as supplements to the Daily Reports, but will be numbered
In series. One additional editor has been detailed to
assist the Projects Editor with these reports, and to
prepare the weekly Middle East Roundup.
d. Correct identification in the filing of corrections
need not exceed the essentials of logo, subject matter
and pick-up words. The following is an example of an
over-extended response to a query on a missing processing
indicator:
ANSWFaING 251146
M250838 CAIRO EGYPTIAN HOME SERVICE DEC 25
1956 0630 CaT--HATIM STATTNENT: PLEASE
SLUG THIS ITEM QUOTE TUT UNQUOTE.
SUPPLYING QUOTE SLUG UNQUOTE.
The statement: "Item is text," would have sufficed.
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e. In rendering figures above a million, decimalized
abbreviation is prefermed, whenever possible, e.g.: 16.9 million
rather than 16,900,000.
2. London
a. Questionable or queried names, unintelligible passages,
etc. from Home Service versions of PPAVDA editorials should
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be regularly supplied as priority corrections from the TASS
Dictation bulletin whenever possible.
3. Mediterranean Bureau
a. USSR regional material sometimes contains bracketed or
misspelled names of officials which should have been ehecked
in the State Department's Biographic Directory of Soviet
Political Leaders, available at the Bureau.
b. Arab copy has a tendency to carry simple titles in
appositional phrases. For example: "Sabri al-Asali,
Syrian Premier, said today." To cut down on superfluous
punctua4on, the form "Sytian Premier Sabri al-Asali" is
recammlanded. In the ease of complex titles, however, the
longer form la correct, e.g., "Mahmud Hamad, Director of
the president's Office for Agricultural Affairs, died. today."
4. Okinawa and West Coast Bureaus
a.. The Bureaus' prompt and comprehensive coverage d' the
Indonesian crisis, particularly Okinawa's rapid expansion
of coverage of the regional radios, as very helpful and
greatly appreciated. Material which could not be published
In the Daily Report was given special distribution outside
the Division.
b. Attached are copies of an Embassy Foreign Service Despatch
and a Memorandum from a State Department Liaison Officer
commending the tuo bureaus for their coverage of Pekinr.,
radio reportage of the visit of Chou En-lai to Phnom Penh.
5. Saigon Bureau
a. South Vietnam briefs have usually been very well.prepared,
In the future, however, they may generally be confined to
items not already covered in the Saigon-Cholon press reviews.
b. The press reviews are frequently employed in compiling
roundups of world reaction to important events such as the
recent visit of Prime Minister Nehru to Washington and the
presentation of the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East.
Their usefulness can be augmented by the inclusion of quotable
key passages following generalizations made by the review
writer.
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PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS COMMENT
1. On 28 December a REUTERS dispatch announced that Prague
Radio had dropped the Soviet National Anthem as its sign-off each
night. Monitors should be urged to report this kind of information
and any other omissions and changes in broadcast habits. (Unclassified)
2. The desirability of increased liaison between bureaus to
coordinate the translation of critical and recurring words and phrases
has been called to the attention of the Radio Propaganda Branch
through an exchange of messages in which differing views on the
translation of the Mandarin words for "economy" and "austerity" uere
received from the West Coast and Okinawa Bureaus. Field bureaus should
establish or sharpen liaison on the translations of important massages
in political and aconomic =anent which often reflect subtle but clear
differences in CoMmunist policy and propaganda line. Where Peking is
concerned, NCNA English Morse usage can often serve as a common
meeting ground and, if requested, RPB can solicit opinions fraaFDD
linguists based on publications usage to sumoilement the opinions of
FBIS monitors from broadcast usage. (Unclassified)
? 3. The Asian bureaus did an excellent job in reporting and text-
ing Asian comment on Hungarian, Polish and related developments.
Particularly Okinawa and West Coast Bureaus are to be cam/tended for
their filing of special listings of Peking broadcast items treating
the Satellite developments. These lists were very useful in RPB's
effort to maintain current coverage of the rapidly changing developments.
Similar efforts by the staff at the Saigon Bureau to give full
coverage of the incipient "thaw" in the political and social climate
in North Vietnam filled a real need in RPB. (Unclassified)
4. Studies issued during the last 30 days include a retort on
Moscow and Budapest propaganda on Hungarian refugees and Communist
radio propaganda to and about Laos. (Confidential)
ADMINISTRATION (Unclassified)
1. of Personnel Evaluation Division departed on 50X1
a field trip to indlude the West Coast and Far Eastern bureaus. He
will review current salary administration and other personnel problems.
2. Bureaus are requested to submit travel vouchers promptly after
completion of travel, especially when travel advances have been obtained.
Delinquent notices from Fiscal Division reflect uhfavorably on FBIS
administration.
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3. Administrative Officers are reminded that whenever
transportation requests include travel of children under 12 years
of age, the name of each child and date of birth must be shown on
the reverse side of the request. The names of other dependents should
also be shown.
4. Bureaus are reminded to submit Form 34-14, Report of Estimated
Obligations, in triplicate.
5. The new interpretation of the work week with respect to
holidays is re-emphasized. For employees assigned to a work week
other than Monday'through Friday, the first day off is considered to
be their Saturday and the second day off their Sunday. If a holiday
falls on the second day off, holiday provisions will apply.
6. Listings of'notices and regulations are for the convenience
of the bureaus and-Should be checked regularly each month. Nzin-receipt,
of any issuance should be reported to Headquarters promptly. The
following issuances have not previously been reporteth
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PERSONNEL
CHANGES
1.
Personnel Entering on
Duty:
Assignment.:
50X1
Teletypist
Editcriel Jr.
TeliFtypiLt
LOB
Editorl&
Teletysist
Editorial Br.
2.
Reassignments Within FBID:
From:
To:
50X1
Engineer
Engineer
Med. Bur.
WCB
Editor,
London Bur.
Editor
WCB
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3. Transfers from FBID:
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4. Separations from FBID:
Attachments:
(2)
Chief Chief 50X1
Med. Bur. Editorial Br.
Chief Chief
Editorial Br. WCB
Pram:
Editor 50X1
Editorial Br.
Editor
Editorial Br.
From:
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Admin. Asst. 50X1
ECB
Intell. Aset,
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE COPY
Washington Attachment I
To
Subject:
December 261 1956
- FBIS Liaison STAT
Central Intelligence Agency
EValtation of FBIS Coverage of Chou Em-Lai Visit
The Department takes pleasure in transmitting the attached
Foreign Service Despatch fram Phnom Penh and wishes to add its
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appreciation for the efficient coverage of this subject to that
ekpressed by the Embassy. ,
You will notice that the prompt receipt of this information
not only aided the Etbassy in its efforts to analyze the events,
but also contributed to a better understanding of the intricacies
of the situation on the past of the Cambodian authorities.
F. Robert Berg
Acting Chief, CIA Liaison 22='
Division of Acquisition and Dist:-.t
CLB-3367
Attachment:
1. Phnom Penh 211, dated December 10, 1956
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Attachment II
FOREIGN SERVICE DESPATCH
From : AMEMBASSY, PHNOM PENH December 10, 1956
Subject; Evaluation of FBIS coverage of Chou En-Lai visit.
This Embassy desires to go on record in appreciation of the
exceptionally fine coverage by the Federal Broadcast Intelligence
Service of the recent visit here of Chou En-Lai. The FBIS intercepts
of Radio Peking bearing upon this state visit were complete, accurate
and made gvailable to us in remarkably quick time. They thus have
not only supplemented the Embassy's reporting but in some cases, by
filling gaps in the locally available news, contributed directly
to the Embassy's analyses. Also, by comparing the locally relenscd.
versions of certain speeches with those of Radio Peking, the Ethassy
was able to draw the attention of Cambodian officials to
discrepancies, whichltre noted with considerable interest. The
Embassy would appreciate it if the foregoing comments could be
communicated to the Federal Broadcast Intelligence Service. All
the reports referred to, except one (which came from Okinawa), were
received through the monitoring station at Santa Rosa, California.
G. McMurtrie Godley
Counselor of Embassy
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