LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300190008-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 10, 1960
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Bureau Chiefs
FROM: Chief, IBIS
SUBJECT: Letter of Instruction
GENERAL
1. Developments on the African Project during April:
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a. Preparation of plans for the operations building and equip-
ment neared completion.
b. Evidence mounted that the IBIS proposal was in difficult
straits in the Nigerian Government despite the best efforts of the
U.S. Consul General in Lagos. Our suspicions were confirmed by a
cable from Lagos stating that the Council of Ministers had voted on
29 April to defer consideration of the IBIS station until after Ni-
gerian independence (October 1960). Further courses of action may
include a joint US-UK approach to Prime Minister Balewa, who is now
in England.
c. Travel arrangements for the advance party were suspended
until further notice.
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approved.
draft of a statement to the press in Nigeria was
2. The final draft report of the Direction Finding Committee to the
USIB Secretariat 1s still in prerration. Completion of the report is
expected in May.
3. All arrangements were completed for establishment of a small
monitoring mission at the U.S. Naval Base, Key West, Florida, to monitor
Cuban medium wave and TV broadcasts. Enuipment was shipped on 12 April.
Monitor Iboth of the
East Coast Bureau, reported to the base on 30 ;7ril to establish the
post. Activation in early May is expected.
4. Of 278 items included in OCI's Current Intelligence Digest
during April, 77 (22.7 percent) were based wholly or in part on IBIS
monitoring.
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5. The Liaison and Requirements Staff has completed its annual re-
view of all continuing lateral field services performed by the several
bureaus. These services will be compiled into separate lists, based upon
USIB-member source (i.e. State, Army, Navy, Air, etc.), and forwarded to
senior officials of each UBIB component in Washington. The purpose is
to apprise the LEIB community of the vast array of continui7 PRISAat4rea
field services performed on their behalf in overseas areas.
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PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS COMMENT
analyst indicated in
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1. Radio Propaganda Reports
parentheses):
(Responsible
a. "Sino-Soviet Bloc Broadcasts
" updating an August
1959 prepaganda report at USIA request
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b. "The Impect_ofiChrushchev's Troop
-Cut Speech
on Soviet Mili-
tary Doctrine"
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c. "New Loo
t Propaganda Reflected in Publicity on
Pacific Rescue"
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d. "Soviet
Slogans for
May Day 1960"
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e. "Soviet Propaganris
nn the
German
question from
the 1958
Berlin Crisis to Date"
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f. "Satellite Attitudes
Towards
the Chinese Communes," in
response to an
XI coninuin2 request
for analyses of satellite
propaganda on the
CPR
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2. Propaganda
indicated in parentheses):
Analysis Items on the
IBIS Wire (Responsible
analyst
a. "Highlights of the CPSU Slogans for May Day"
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b. "PRAVDA Observer on Herter Speech of 4 April"
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c. "RED FLAG Repeats CPR Views
Soviet
Line on
Likelihood and Consequences of War"
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d. "Elrushchev Warnste Soviet-GDR Treaty Would End
Western Access to Berlin"
3. Special RPB Services:
a. The Chief. REM and Chief. International Affairs Section
briefed
on propaganda bearing on general East-
West relations, disarmament, and Sino-Soviet differences. Periodic
briefings of the General on these and other subjects have been re-
quested.
b. A survey of the utilization of music as a propaganda device
in Peking broadcasts, prepared by at the West Coast
Bureau, was distributed as a special memorandum to consumers in DD/P
s4A411 uffices, USIA/IRI, VOA, ACSI, and the Special Operations Research
Office.
c. In response to the intelligence community's priority con-
cy cern with Sino-Soviet differences, RPB has undertaken a major re-
search effort to define the scope and depth of such differences,
as brought sharply into focus in recent authoritative Chinese and
Soviet pronouncements.
4. Continuing RPB Services:
Propaganda-analysis report No. 35 was sent to CCI on 28 April
for the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva ten-nation disarmament talks.
With the nuclear test-ban talks concurrently in session in Geneva,
material on the test-ban issue has been incorporated in the cables
for the disarmament delegation and copies have been routed to the
test-ban conference delegation.
5. The following are among the Radio Propaganda Reports projected
for late May and June (Responsible analyst indicated in parentheses):
a. Evolution of Khrushc ' ion on the Transition to
Communism?a research study
b. Review of Soviet Propaganda on Agriculture
c. Opposition in the Chinese Communist Party to the Party's
Small Blast-Furnace Policy--first in a series responding to an OCI
Communist China parts of the "rightist" opposition in
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d. Review of Soviet Propaganda Beamed to Turkey--a survey of
this propaganda in advance of Menderes' visit to Mbscov
6. Field Support of the Radio Propaganda Brandin
Bureaus responsible for Chinese Communist coverage are urged to
supply FYIs whenever possible, and as promptly as possible, on any un-
usual radio treatment of key articles from CPR newspapers and journals
Examples of unusual treatment are: (a) particularly vide or particu-
larly limited beaming, (b) differences between the lengths of home
service and foreign-language versions, (c) replacement of regularly
scheduled radio features with special broadcasts of key articles, and
(d) the broadcasting of such articles in installments.
This type of information is of special importance in regard to
articles such as the recent ones in RED FLAG that have polemically
attacked Soviet ideological positions. One of these articles got
extraordinary distribution, even wider than that given major speeches
by top leaders.
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SUBJECT: Letter of Instruction
EDITORIAL BRANCH COMMENT
General
1. The bureaus concerned are commended for their professional handling
of reportage and comment on the South African riots.
2. Information supplied by the field on plans for processing important
materials from the Eighth Plenum of the SED Central Committee and the
Yugoslav Socialist Alliance Congress was appreciated by Headquarters edi-
tors. The Mediterranean Bureau's well-prepared editorial reports on the
Yugoslav congress enabled the Daily Report to provide prompt coverage of
the congress proceedings.
3. The decision to assign the Mediterranean Bureau primary responsi-
bility for coverage of Nasir's visit to India and Pakistan made it possible
to achieve a comprehensive file of useful information without the customary
duplication which results when events occur involving the coverage respon-
sibilities of two or more bureaus.
4. Bureaus are reminded that any embargo placed on an item by the
transmitting agency should be indicated in an appropriate subslug.
5. During the month 84 percent of Daily Report pages were devoted
to radio material, and 16 percent to press scrutiny.
Okinawa and West Coast Bureaus
1. The Okinawa Bureau's informative and detailed FYI's on Radio
Pyongyang's treatment of the events leading up to and attending the fall
of the Rhee government in South Korea were well-tailored for incorporation
into the Daily Report as editorial reports, providing much valuable infor-
mation in a minimum of space.
2. The bureaus are commended for their fine handling of the volu-
minous materials on the recent NPC-CPPCC sessions. Okinawa's efforts to
supply the Chinese hellschreiber versions of all major speeches were
muds appreciated, not only by MS, but by the Department of State, CCI,
and other major consumers.
Panama Post
1. The post was authorized to again utilize its teletypist as a
Spanish monitor during the recent Venezuelan crisis.
2. The post turned in an expellent performance in connection with
the Castro Leon revolt in Venezuela. Its rapid filing of concise reports
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from numerous broadcast sources, including the rebel radio, enabled the
IBIS Wire to keep consistently ahead of local news services in covering
the situation.
LIAISON AND REQUIRWE STAFF COMMENT
1. The Liaison and Requirements Staff would like to take this
opportunity to express to all bureaus its sincere appreciation for the
exemplary cooperation it continues to receive from the field. This
cooperation is outstanding in three areas:
a. The execution of any special coverage requirements levied
on the field.
b. The singular attention given by the field to flagged copy.
c. The very effective coordination displayed by the field in
assisting in the control of ad hoc and continuing lateral field
services.
2. In the two previous Letters of Instruction the general distri-
bution of IBIS publications and the specific distribution of the White
Book were discussed. One general category of clients mentioned for
White Book service was friendly foreign embassies, and by indirection
the governments they represent.
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ENGINEERING AND FIELD OPERATIONS
1. The Field Operations Officer returned from an around-the-world
inspection trip of all FBIS Bureaus.
2. Radio Peking made its spring schedule change on 14/15 April,
raising its total international output from the January total of 364
hours to 490 hours. On 27 and 29 April further changes were made.
Italian language broadcasts were inaugurated and Korean broadcasts were
increased, bringing the total weekly output of Peking to the present
level of 507i hours. This is the greatest single expansion in output
by Radio Peking in its entire history. It broadcasts in 24 languages
and, is now one of the top four international broadcasters. Coverage
of 'the expansion has required reassignment of some Peking broadcasts
among field bureaus, and dropping of lover priority news programs from
various countries.
3. Radio Moscow introduced its spring/summer international broad-
cast schedule on 26 April, but bad reception due to severe sun-spot
trouble has hampered analysis of the schedule change. Incomplete obser-
vations show increases in many languages, notably in English and French
to Africa and in Spanish and Portuguese to Latin America. Moscow also
added daytime broadcasts to its North and Latin American beams. The
impact of this increase has not yet been felt on FBIS coverage. However,
the additional coverage of this and the Peking increase will further
affect FBIS' ability to cover news broadcasts from non-bloc countries,
and to handle coverage of political crises as they occur.
4. Work on the publication of "Broadcasting Stations of the
World" is progressing favorably. The completed and corrected IBM runs
should be in the hands of the printer on or before the 1 June deadline.
Almost four thousand individual volumes of the last printing of this
publication were sold by the Government Printing Office.
5. The Broadcast Information Section during April published a
complete revision of the East European section of the program schedule
book. It also completed work on the African Section, which will be
sent to subscribers within the next two weeks. The African Section
will be the largest and most comprehensive ever published by the BIS.
6. The Broadcast Information Section started publishing repre-
sentative television schedules of major communist world TV stations in
its "Program Schedules of Foreign Broadcasting Stations." It is strictly
an experiment to determine if subscribers will want such a service main-
tained, especially for transmitters within the coverage area of FBIS
bureaus.
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7. A requisition for thirty long and medium wave antenna multi-
couplers was submitted to Logistics. Delivery is expectedytp...teke about
six months.
8. CSO Laboratories has delivered to last Coast the first ten high
frequency multicouplers. Ileept for a few minor irregularities which will
be corrected in the additional one hundred units duo, multicouplor per-
formance is excellent, with specifications exceeded inmost categories.
9. Plans and estimates for an extension to the Okinawa Bureau
Operations Building have been reviewed and. approved. The Bureau has
been instructed to proceed with bids and signing of contract which wit
be coppleted by 30 JUne.
10. Plano and specifications for one-bedroom additions to eight
duplex housing units in Okinawa have been received. Project.bids and
signing of =tract should be completed by 30 June.
ArifINISTRATIOR
1. woe mamma nkidit 'cairns]. Affairs Section,
RPB as of /5 April. ?Se replaces 1 twill continue as
Deputy Chief, RJR until assigned as Chief of the Austrian Bureau in July.
2. Instructions were forwarded to the last Coast Bureau to implement
Type II financial property accountability. /ollowing the MB-experiment,
FPA will be established at all FBIS bureaus.
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1. Anansementwere initiated for the area familiarisation travel
lest Coast Bureau Monitor, to South. America. STAT
4. Current Residence & Dependency Reports should be submitted to
Headquarters in an original, and two copies.
5. Travel Vouchers - Bureaus are requested to leave vacant the space
on the face of the Travel Voucher in lino 3 which reads "to which $.
of this voucher should be applied.". The amount of any Travel Advance( s)
should still be inserted.
6. The following FBIS Regulatory issuances were released during the
month of April:
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PERSONNEL CHANGES
1. New Employees in FBIS
2. Reassignments From
Editor
Editorial Br.
Editor
Editorial Br.
Editor
Saigon
Editor
Editorial Br.
3. Separations From
Teletypist
WCB
Editor
Editorial Br
Assignment
Analyst
RPB
To
Bureau Chief
Hokkaido
Editor
WCB
Editor
Editorial Br.
Editor
Germany
ROGER G. SEELY
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