LETTER OF INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300230003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 17, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMDRANDUM FOR: Bureau Chiefs
FROM : Chief, FBIS
SUBJECT : Letter of Information
GENERAL
17 October 1962
1. Hong Kong Tests: After considerable planning and coordination, Messrs.
of West Coast Bureau left 50X1
for Hong Kong and Taiwan to sample and measure reception of South China regional
transmitters. Test monitoring operations at the U. S. Consulate General in Hong
Kong started 26 September. Results so far appear to exceed expectations. The
Chief, FBIS, visited BEC Monitoring Service at Caversham to explain this project
to Mr. John T. Campbell, Head, BBC/MS, on 9 - 10 October. FBIS continues to take
the position that any permanent Hong Kong monitoring should be a BBC responsi-
bility. 50X1
2. Special Memorandum: Foreign radio and press reaction to the U. S.
decision to sell Hawk missiles to Israel was reviewed in a Special Memorandum for
the DD/I, with copies for DD/I and DD/P offices, the National Security Council,
State and Defense Department offices, USIA, AEC, and the National Indications
Center.
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3. World Reaction Report: Foreign radio and press treatment of the events
in Mississippi was reviewed in response to a request from the National Security
Council. In view of the general interest in this material, the roundup was issued
as a World Reaction Series supplement to the Daily Retort, with advance copies
for the Attorney General and the NSC. 50X1
4. Disarmament Conference Support: FBIS continued its service to the Agency
representative on the U. S. disarmament delegation in Geneva, with field bureaus
supplying texts of significant items. More than 140 propaganda-analysis support
cables have been provided by the Radio Propaganda Branch since the conference
opened in March 1962. 50X1
5. Radio Propaganda Reports:
a. "Propaganda Indications of Deteriorating Sino-Soviet
Relations" (CD. 210)
b. "Radio Moscow Propaganda on Space Programming Following
the Orbiting of Vostoks III and IV" (CD.211)
c. "Khrushchev's Treatise on Integration of the Bloc Economies:
Answer to the Common Market, Challenge to the CPR"
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6. Analysis Items on the FBIS Wire Service: RPB items on the FBIS Wire
called attention to:
a. the first signs in Lao dissident propaganda of an open
break between the Pathet Lao and Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma,
discernible in the reaction of the Pathet Lao radio and the Radio
of the Laotian Kingdom to Western press reports that Souvanna had
sought and received full special powers for a year;
b. an Albanian propaganda move to press Communist China into
an open break with the Soviet Union; and
c. highlights of the CPSU Central Committee slogans for the
Cectober Revolution anniversary.
7. Cuban Coverage: Attention continues to be devoted by FBIS to produce as
much significant information on Cuba as possible) and to disseminate it rapidly,
for a wide variety of important consumers. Special coverage was laid on for
Havana broadcasts concerning the release of prisoners and the widely publicized
-Radio Free Dixie" programs beamed to Negroes in the United States. In order
to meet continuing requests for copies of the RPB Special Memorandum on Fidel
Castro's Promises and Admissions of Failure) 300 extra copies were reproduced
by the photo offset process; of these, 200 are destined for use by State De-
partment and USIS posts overseas. The first issue of the new RPB series of
Radio Propaganda Reports on Cuba is scheduled for 26 October. The video tape
reorder and ancillary equipment were delivered on 1 October and installed by
the Key West Post Electronic Specialist. All tests were completed satisfactorily
by an Ampex field engineer and the equipment was accepted on 9 October. The Post
is now ready to receive reauirements for recordings, which will be supplied to
Graphics Register, OCR.
8. New Wire Service Recipients: Several requests have been received from
military organizations for outlets to the FBIS Wire Service. With the recent
addition of the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in Nor-
folk, and pending requests from Marine Corps Headquarters G-2 and the Head-
quarters of the Foreign Technology Division of the U. S. Air Force Systems
Command at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, the Wire Service will have 33 recip-
ients, compared with the 23 recipients it had shortly after it began operating
on 7 December 1941.
9. Review of Requirements: The Liaison and Requirements Staff is conducting
its semi-annual review of continuing requirements, surveying all the special ser-
vices collated in the 4 January 1962 memorandum (sent to all Division components
concerned) and supplementary lists drawn up on a monthly basis since then. Several
requirements have been canceled already as a result of letters sent to the original
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requestors who replied that they no longer need the material. Beginning in 1963,
it is planned to place an automatic 90-day cut-off date on all requirements of
a limited interest nature; this will mean that requesting offices must reiterate
their need for specific items in writing every three months or the requirement
will be canceled. Additions or deletions to the standing list of requirements
distributed to all field bureaus will then be distributed on a quarterly basis.
10. The following regulatory issuances were disseminated:
Notice No. EallisaL
62-20
Date
Release of Information to Public Information 4 Sept 1962
Media or Representative Thereof
62-21 Renumbering of FBIS Regulation
Reg. No. 211121191
10-9 Case and Use of Official Data
45-5 Real Estate and Construction Accountability
18 Sept 1962
Date
18 Sept 1962
18 Sept 1962
U. Daily Report: During the month 89 percent of Daily Report pages were
devoted to broadcast material and 11 percent to press scrutiny.
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12. New Daily Report Printing Process: FBIS and Printing Services Division
are cooperating in a pilot project for conversion to offset printing of the Daily
Report. For a one month period the Latin American Book will be produced by a
tape offset process. Three tape producing typewriters will be rented, for the
Production Section of the Editorial Branch for use in preparing tapes in lieu of
stencils. These tapes will be used at the printing plant to prepare masters for
offset printing. This will greatly improve the appearance of the Daily Report,
and will save a large amount of paper and manpower at the plant. If the exper-
iment is successful and funds can be allocated, the entire Daily Report repro-
duction will be converted to this process. 50X1
13. Service Certificates: Sixty-seven FBIS employees were recently awarded
certificates by the Director in recognition of fifteen years of service with the
Agency, and twenty-one additional employees received ten year certificates. A
ceremony was held at the new Headquarters building for this purpose. 50X1
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
1. All Bureaus: The term "Warsaw Pact" is preferable to "Warsaw Treaty".
2. London and Mediterranean Bureaus:
a. The continued effective coordination and processing by the two
bureaus of significant CAR and other Middle East materials is greatly
appreciated by Headquarters.
b. Items concerning proceedings at inter-African
erally should not be filed as briefs.
c. Editors are requested to check North African,
Somali names against TIC cards.
conferences gen-
Ethiopian, and
d. The handling of Middle East briefs in Headquarters would be
greatly facilitated if they were filed in normal publication order --
that is, UAR, Iran, Jordan, Arabian Peninsula, Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
e. Dates mentioned in processed material may normally be rendered
in dates according to the Gregorian calendar. In the case of an anni-
versary or similar event the date from a Mohammedan or Persian calendar
should be given along with its Gregorian equivalent.
ENGINKERIM AND FIELD OPERATIONS
1. African Bureau: The requirements for filtering the power line to the
operations building to eliminate radio interference are being explored thoroughly.
2. East Coast Bureau: The installation of electric power wiring in the
Mobile Monitoring Van has been completed.
3. Mediterranean Bureau: A full time tone-keyed teletype communications
link was establisced between the FBIS Station at Karavas and the State Depart-
ment Radio Station in Nicosia for routine and emergency use.
4. Coverage Change Reports: Coverage Change Reports should be wirefiled
no later than the first and sixteenth of each month. When listing modifications
it would be most helpful if Bureaus would clearly indicate the portion of the
entry being modified.
5. Reporting frequencies: When political turmoil in any country causes
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broadcasting to become disorganized, bureaus should teport the frequencies on
which broadcasts are being received until it is felt that this information will
no longer serve any useful purpose. Two recent examples of this procedure,
which were helpful to BIS in answering queries, were the Panama Post's FYIs on
the Argentine crisis and the Mediterranean Bureau's FYIs on the Yemeni situation.
ADMINISTRATION
Personnel:
1. New Employees
Assignment
Editor, USSR & EE Section (Returned frotSTAT
Editorial Branch military service)
Editor, ME/AF/WE/LA Section
Editorial Branch
Editor, USSR & EE Section
Editorial Branch
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Reassignments From
To
Analyst
Chief
STAT
RPB
Saigon Bureau
Watch Officer
Assistant Engineer
West Coast Bureau
Headquarters
Watch Officer
Tri-State College
Mediterranean Bureau
Secretary
Clerk
Administrative Staff
Okinawa Bureau
Senior Editor
Analyst, Bloc Foreign
West Coast Bureau
Affairs Section, RPB
Editor
Senior Editor
Okinawa Bureau
West Coast Bureau
Watch Officer
Watch Officer
West Coast Bureau
Mediterranean Bureau
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Reassignments (continued)
3. Resignation
Fran
Deputy Chief, Field
Operations Staff
Editor
East Coast Bureau
Operations Officer
Okinawa Bureau
Editor
Editorial Branch
Chief
African Bureau
Chief
Panama Post
Assignment
Analyst
RPB
To
Chief
African Bureau
Editor
London Bureau
Deputy Chief, Field
Operations Staff
Editor
East Coast Bureau
Chief
Austrian Bureau
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Assistant Chief Engineer
West Coast Bureau
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