LETTER OF INFORMATION NOTES - APRIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300210017-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: May 16, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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Letter of Inforation Sates April 1561
16 May 1961
1. Training of the African MUreau4s two foreign language
*Suitors and the cruising monitor continues. The Bureau'a first
? sonthlyIntanction report indicated a dally average of 150 words
of publishable wordage file& to Washington duringApril.
2. Bureaus are reminded that *Ira schedule or frequency
change takes place during the course of a coverage reporting Pectioas
the average reeeption rating shown for the program concerned Should
reflect only condition? efter the Change.
3. Field Bureaus are requested to report whenever Soviet bloc
telecasts are carried live brother countries, both In Eastern and
*stern Ebrope. Exempla of suth teLecaste are the recent Gagman
reception in Moscow and the Moscow Nay Day parade, which vera telecast
over networks in Central and Western Ebrope. Announcements of upcomiag
network telecasts en& information on which countries aotually carry
then live should be flied to BM.
4* Radio Mews dbangedto its summer tie for international
broadcasts on April 25. be various fieldhureems are to be craended
for their promptness in filing preliminary immouncements and for their
efforts In confirming the various language salable*.
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SUBJIICT: letter of Thfornation Notes a April 1561
5. All fieldburesue are again reminded that broadcast items
warning new radio program, ner transmitting futilities: radio
and television elan* agreements and other items ecettaining back-
ground information en foreign radio developeents Mould be filed
loon TO BIB". In reasetamathe an 111101.0111C number of such items
were not filed so flawed.
6. Bureaus are regoasted to double-address to the PBC all vine
file! meal-mcmthly and monthly coverage change reports. In mitiition,
Bureaus should heneeltei/leail to the BBC a eopy of each ccmplete
*overage schedule estmitted with their Progress Reports in ccapliance
withparagraph 2b of nas Regulation 42-8.
? 7. (Ingineering Staffwill supply items um the Puerto Rican
survey.)
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Whenever a schedule change. or frequency change takes place during the
course of a coverage reporting period, the average reception rating shown
for the program concerned should reflect only the conditions after the change.
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Field bureaus are requested to report whenever Soviet bloc
telecasts are carried live by other countries, both in Eastern and in
Western Europe. Examples of such telecasts are the recent Gagarin
reception in Moscow and the Moscow May Day parade which were telecast
over networks in Central and Western Europe. Announcement
Of upcoming network telecasts and information on which countries carry
theyhsuld be filed gaRrto 111,BIS.
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Radio Moscow changed to its: summer schedule international
broadcasts on April 25. The various field bureaus are to be commended for
theira promptness in filing preliminary announcements and for their
efforts in confirming the various language schedules.
The Broadcaat mutation Section of FOS supplied
with a of Asgons and frequencies g s nems
which daWbe heard in Geneva during the &bnference an
given alist o such programs from De ','Londnp, Paris, Moscww,
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other items: Puerto Rico Survey (FOS will handle?
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All field bureaus are again saattkin reminded t iteaas
concerning new radio programs, new transmitting facilities, radio and television
exchange agreements and other items containing background information at foreign
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radio developments should be dleissfile o 401b-BIS. In recent months kit.?
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