LETTER OF INFORMATION NOTES - JULY 1961

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300210010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 17, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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Deputy Chief, FBI!)
Acting Chief, Field Operations Staff
letter of Information Notes,- July 1$61.
1. East, Coast Bureau Spanish monitor
17 August 1961
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1 August for Femme to assist the Pest to better cover news and comment
broadcast on the IWECOSOC conference at Punta Del Pete, Uruguay. Be
will remain in Panama until 17 August, returning by way of the Key West
Pest Where he will remain for two weeks to permit to take
two weeks annual leave.
2. As an initial step in increasing the Panama Post coverage of
Latin American broadcasts the Post hired two Spanish monitors and a
teletypist during the month. An editor will be assigned to the Post in
early fall to permit the establishment of an evening shift.
3.
, East Coast Bureau French monitor will
depart 6 September for Kaduna, Nigeria. He will remain there for
approximately three months to assist in the training of monitors
recruited for the African Bureau.
4. Bureaus are reminded that in reporting on Communist bloc
radio broadcast suspensions or cancellations which may have great
political significance, care should be taken to determine whether such
programs have actually been suspended or merely shifted to new times or
days of week. T6e recent reporting by two field bureaus of the suspension
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by Radio Peking's hese service of Radio Moscow recorded broadcasts, which
in reality was a rescheduling and cutback in output, was widely disseminated
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by Headquarters to the highest level: tateropon a third field
bureau's reporting that the Nbscow:broadcasts were actually on
three days d Week during the reported period of suspension, it was
necessary for Headquarters' publications to retract the reported
suspension. In the future, bureaus covering the same targets should
coordinate their efforts more closely to ensure that programs are
actually suspended by carefully Checking both by direct observation,
and Where possible, by program previews,
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ITEMS FOR LETTER OF 3BFORMATION FROM BIS 15 AUGUST 1961;
Bureaus are reminded that in reporting on Communist bloc radio
broadcast suspensions or cancellations which may have great political
significance, care should be taken to determine whether such programs
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have actually been suspended or merely shifted to new times or
The recent reporting by two field bureaus of the suspension by Radio
Peking's home service of Radio Moscow recorded broadcasts, shich in reality
was a rescheduling and cutback in output, was widely disseminated by
Headquarters to ithatzletglinsk lit011iseeS-4* the highest level. Later, upon a
third field bureaus's reporting that the Moscow broadcasts ivae actually
on three days a week during the reported period of suspension, it was
necessary for Headquarters' publications to retract the reported suspension.
In the future, bureaus covering the same targets should coordinate their
efforts more closely to ensure that programs ar actually suspended by
direct
carefully checking both by observation by rogram previews.
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