LETTER OF INFORMATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 24, 1967
• Content Type: MEMO

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24 October 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: Staff Personnel
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GENERAL
1. Nigerian Developments: The behavior of the rebel Radio
Enugu was a primary topic of Afritan. Bureau reporting as Federal
troops continued their advance into the dissident Eastern Region'
of Nigeria. .The security situation 'remained stable at Kaduna, thus
permitting uninterrupted bureau operations. Nevertheless, radio -
communications outages between Kaduna and Lagos showed an increase
during September. Arrangements were made to send 500 words -a day
of critical bureau material via a classified alternate channel.
(SECRET)
2. Cyprus Situation: September was a quiet month in Cyprus
following a rash of inter-communal murders in the Paphos -Limassol
area during August. Talks between the Greek and Turkish premiers
ended without apparent progress on the Cyprus issue, but for the
first time the rotation of the Turkish military contingent took
place without the usual weeks of acrimony. The last of the London
Bureau's Turkish coverage was transferred to Mediterranean Bureau '
thus ending the "split coverage" that began with the dislocation of
February 1964. .Negotiations continued between the U.S. and. Cyprus
governments on an agreement for retention of U.S. installations on
the island. (SECRET)
3. Saigon Bureau: Terrorists blew up the Nationalist Chinese
Embassy, two blocks from the Saigon Bureau, in one of the most serious
'downtown Viet Cong attacks in months'. The main entrance to the U.S.
Embassy was closed for a period as a precaution against sniper fire
following the blast. The period was also marked by numerous traffic
dislocations resulting from increased Buddhist and student antigovern-
ment demonstrations. In its local services the bureau was deluged
for requests for copies of the National Liberation Front political
platform, broadcast by the Liberation Radio. (CONFIDENTIAL)
4. London Press Monitoring Unit: Further progress was made during
September toward establishing the London-Press Monitoring Unit. Between
18 and 30 September, 54 applicants were interviewed and tested, of which
19 were put into processing. Subscriptions were-placed for 167.Soviet
and East European newspapers, Lot delivery at the.FMU offices at.Wembley
Park., Plans for the arrangement of PMU work spaee, lighting, and
partitioning have been drafted. (CONFIDENTIAL).
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5. FBIS-BBC Coordination Meeting: The 18th annual meeting of
the FBIS-BBC Monitoring Service Coordination Committee was held in
*Washington 19 October; Mr. John Campbell, Head, BBC Monitoring Service,
represented the BBC, while the Director, Deputy Director, Chief of
Operations, and Acting Chief of Production represented FBIS. The Committee
decided that a joint study of current broadcast coverage commitments
should be made by FBIS and the BBC to determine the validity of current
coverage and insure that resources are allocated in the most profitable
manner. (SECRET)
SERVICES AND REQUIREMENTS
6. Stokely Carmichael Report: The Production Group, in coordination
with the L&R Office, produced on a crash basis a second compilation of
all material published by PSIS on the activities of Stokely Carmichael
abroad since 9 August, the date of the first issuance dealing with
Carmichael. The request was levied by an Organization component in
behalf of the Attorney General. A limited press run of the finished
product was subsequently distributed to key members of the government.
Several requests for tape recordings of Carmichael statements made over
foreign radios were also fulfilled. (CONFIDENTIAL)
7. Giap Article: in'response to a high level request from the
State Department and requests from Organization components, an article by
North Vietnam's General Giap entitled "The Big Victory, The Great Task,"
previously printed in the Daily Report in installments, was reissued as a
supplement in a single volume. The State Department alone ordered 250
copies. Copies were also sent to Far East bureaus for key consumers in
the U.S. missions. At the request of the Operations Center, the entire
25,000-word Giap article was carried on the Wire Service. The article
had been monitored from Radio Hanoi by the Saigon Bureau. (CONFIDENTIAL)
8. Wire Service: The FBIS Wire Service reported the Egyptian attack
On the Israeli destroyer Elath at 2058 GMT 21 October from a Jerusalem
Domestic broadcast, well ahead of the first news agency report received
at 2233 GMT. The item was monitored by the Mediterranean Bureau. The Wire
Service completed its conversion from 60 words per minute to 100-wpm
operation on 20 October. (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
9. Special Services: Various FBIS components responded to high-
level requests for service, in connection with Hanoi and other communist
propaganda relating to U.S. domestic dissatisfaction over the war in
Vietnam: (a) all available Hanoi items on the subject are being provided
on a continuing basis to OCI via the Wire Service in support of a daily
service to the President; (b) examples of Hanoi propaganda on U.S. domestic
opposition to the war from August 1965 to date were compiled by the
Propaganda Analysis Division for the Vietnam Information Group in the White
House; and (c) related services to other Government offices included a cull
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of Hanoi, Liberation Radio, and Peking propaganda desiened to Ian
domestic discontent over the war for the Office of Naval Intelligence,
provided by PAD. (SECRET)
FBIS communications from Hong Kong are 'being utilized for
transmission of unusual items from the U.S. 'Consulate General's Press
Monitoring Unit that are deemed of sufficient urgent interest to merit
wirefiling to CCI. The material is not given normal,FBIB'dibsemination
and thus far has been'limited primarily to material from the Red Guard
press. (SECRET)
,lo. Propaganda Analysis: In response to.interest expressed by the
American' Consulate General, Hong Kong, a study. of the. correlation between.
Chinese provincial radio behavior and political developments in the
provinces during 1967 vcs published as a special PAD report on 6 October,
containing graphs on radio activity in each province 'during 1967.
(CONFIDENTIAL)
The unusual nature of this October's CPSU slogans, curtailed in
number and changed in format for the extraordinary 50th anniversary of
the October Revolution, made the customary PAD comparison with previous
lists of slogans inapplicable. In lieu of the usual special report,
observations on the slogans were carried in an analysis item on the Wire
and in the, Trends:-'1COFIDENTIAL)
..., The eighth in the PAD series of monthly Special Memorandums.fbr
'the State Department on Hanoi propaganda claims of civilian casualties
from U.S. air strikes was issued 13 October, with copies to Organization
components and MACV Saigon. (CONFIDENTIAL)
21. Lateral Services: Field bureaus began filing processed Moscow
Peace and Progress program material beamed to Asia to FBIS Saigon for use
.of the U.S. Mission and to the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong.
.Broadcast items dealing with Malaysia from the same radio are being sent
to the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur at its request'. The London Bureau is
'temporarily filing to the U.S. Embassy Teheran the Moscow 'Persian material
dealing with Iran, at the embassy's request The North American Air Defense
Command (NORA)) asked that the FBIS Wire Service supply it with monitored
reports of space shots. The Mediterranean Bureau resumed-service to the U.S.
Embassy in Beirut following the return of the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon on
25 September. (SECRET)
It Press and Document Exploitation: The USSR Division obtained several
Kosygin speeches from Sovetskaya Moldaviya which had not been previously
broadcast or published in the Soviet central press. The division also
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arranged the translation on a crash basis for OCI of a series of 'Red
Star articles on the Dnepr military maneuvers. (SECRET)
The Europe, Asia, Latin America Division was able to obtain
from Santiago, Montevideo, Paris, and Rome publications four excludive
interviews provided by Fidel.CastrO to foreign correspondents. A series
by a Chilean journalist also translated by the Latin America Branch
provided information on Bolivian guerrilla actiVities. The division
collaborated with the German Bureau in scrutinizing East German papers
over a six-month period for anti-CPR material, in response to an
Organization requirement. (SECRET)
OCI's monthly report on developments in China has made extensive
use of Asia Division material from Red Guard publications, according to
a recent consumer survey. Similarly, CRS reported that Red Guard coverage
had provided a "major input" into files on Chinese communist officials
criticized in the cultural revolution. (SECRET)
l. Langyage Service: On 13 September the Foreign Language Service
Center (FLASC), of EAB, moved to new quarters on the mezzanine of the
Headquarters Library. (CONFIDENTIAL)
14. Translation Savings: The Consolidated Translation Survey section
processed about one thousand inquiries and requirements during September
of which 144 were identified as duplications. This represented 8,343
pages of translation saved, or roughly $40,000. (CONFIDENTIAL)
16. FBIS Collection Requirements: As a supplement to the Current
Intelligence Reporting List (CIRL), which is the prime vehicle for
dissemination of collection requirements, the Liaison and Requirements
Office is issuing a series of "FBIS Collection Requirementsi" which will
cover those requirements for information received by FBIS which axe not
covered by the CIRL. The "FBIS Collection Requirements" are distributed to
all operating components. (CONFIDENTIAL)
PUBLICATIONS
11* Publication Consolidation: On 12 October the Director, FBIS,
approved the Production Group's proposal for the amalgamation of the FBIS
Daily Report and the Foreign Press Digests. Implementation will proceed
by successively incorporating current information now published in the
FPD's into the appropriate volumes of the FBIS Daily Report. As this is
achieved the correspcnding daily FPD will be discontinued. The integration
Will be accomplished initially with the Latin America reports. (CONFIDENTIAL)
lg paily Report Supplements: All three Daily Report branches turned
out supplements during the past month, with the USSR/EE Branch issuing
seven. They included: "Fidel Castro Speech on Seventh Anniversary of
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Committees for the Defense of the Revolution," 4 October; "Material
on the 50th Ariniversary of the Great October Revolution," Volume I,
6 October, and Volume II, 13 October, partly prepared with mats from
Austrian Bureau; "Baybakov, Garbuzov, and Scherbitskiy Report to 10
October 1967 USSR Supreme Soviet Session," 16 October; "DRV Defense
Minister Giap's Article 'The Big Victory, the Great Task," 16 October;
"Ulbricht Speech to SED Central Committee Marking Centenary of DAB
KAPITAL," 20 September; "Material on Czech CP Party Plenum," 18 October;
and "Polish Party Committee Plenum Material," 19 Obtober; "Leader Speeches
at Albanian Democratic Front Congress," 17 October (typed by the Austrian
Bureau). (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
18. Editorial Guidance: The Publications Division has assumed
responsibility for forwarding Headquarters editorial guidance to field
bureaus. The Publications Division issuances will replace the editorial
guidance previously included in the monthly Letter of Information,
(UNCLASSIFIED)
FIELD OPERATIONS
19. Tokyo Operations: Peking coverage by Japanese press corres-
pondents dropped sharply as the result of a CPR ban on reporting of wall
newspapers by foreign correspondents, resulting in a 40 percent decline
of material from this source. Coverage of Japanese television for Red
China films, however, was improved with the installation of an Ampex
videotape recorder transferred from the Key West Bureau. (CONFIDENTIAL)
29. Communications: Movement of Okinawa Bureau traffic for lateral
consumers has been improved with installation of a second Multiple
Address Processing Unit at the Okinawa STRATCOM relay facility. In addition,
the Headquarters communications center now relays all traffic between
Okinawa, Saigon, and Bangkok to circumvent delays in the common-user
system. Lease of the AT&T line between Headquarters and the West Coast
Bureau has been terminated; the bureau is being provided with TWX service
as a backup for the DCS AUTODIN system. (CONFIDENTIAL)
21. Bureau Coordination: Bureaus filing from English-language
press services should keep in mind that leader speeches and similar
material may also be monitored in the original language of the speaker
by another bureau. Drop copies of the English-language version should be
provided to the appropriate bureau to avoid unnecessary translation effort.
(UNCLASSIFIED)
22 Broadcasting Developments: On 1 October Albania introduced a
greatly expanded international broadcasting service supported by new
facilities developed through Communist Chinese aid. FBIS and BBC are
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analyzing the new operation. FBIS is also covering a new Moscow
broadcast, through the medium of "Radio Peace and Progress," for
American servicemen in VietnaM. (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
ENGINEERING
23 Caribbean Bureau: The construction contract for the Caribbean
BUreau is now estimated to be 90 percent completed. ,Progress continues
at an improved pace. The estimated completion date is about 1 November..
During early October the emergency electric power system was put into
operation. Beneficial occupancy of 10 monitoring rooms, two file rooms,
and the chief editor's office occurred 17 Octobek. (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
2h. Hokkaido Bureau: The FBIS USA Homes project at the Hokkaido
Bureau was 93 percent complete at the end of September. The houses were
expected to be ready for occupancy in late October. (UNCLASSIFIED)
MISCELLANEOUS
25. Recordings for L&R: All recordings requested by Liaison and
Requirements for consumers should be on tape rather than belts unless
Otherwise specified. (UNCLASSIFIED)
26. Reference.to Subject: Whenever possible references in adminis-
trative Messages to previous messages should indicate the subject as well
as the message number to facilitate retrieval of the previous message.
(UNCLASSIFIED)
27. Briefings and Visits: Rear Admiral John V. Smith, USN, senior
member designate, U.N. Command, Military Armistice Commission in Korea,
was briefed in Washington on FBIS support capabilities. Brigadier General
Stephen W. Henry, J-2 U.S. Southern Command, was briefed at the Panama
Bureau. Other briefings of military personnel included the attaches of the
U.S. Embassy Vienna on Bratislava and Budapest television, by the Austrian
Bureau, and Captain Giles Upshur, USN, Navy Chief of Staff for Intelligence/
MACV, by the Saigon Bureau. The Chief, Tokyo Bureau, attended the Japan
Intelligence Seminar hosted by the 3-2 U.S. Forces Japan 26 September.
(SECRET)
The DD/OCI was briefed at the Okinawa Bureau 64 September.
(SECRET)
ADMINISTRATION
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attended the 21st annual
29 and 10 September 1967.
conference at the Middle East Institute on
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Regulatory Issuances:
The following regulatory issuances were
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PERSONNEL' (CONFIDENTIAL)
Assignment
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New Employees
Typist, Publications Division
Typist, Publications Division
Teletypist, Wire Services Staff
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Reassignments
Senior Editor Senior Editor
Mediterranean Bureau Publications Division
Chief Chief
Panama Bureau German Bureau
Deputy Chief Chief Editor
Paname. Bureau Caribbean Bureau
Watch Officer Watch Officer
Okinawa Bureau West Coast Bureau
Editor Editor
London Bureau Wire Services Staff
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33.. Retirement
34. Deceased
35. TOY in Washington
and return to. WCB.
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ROGER G. SEELY
Director
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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