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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00868R000100030045-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2007
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: May 8, 1979
• Content Type: CABLE

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C 0 N F I D E NT I A L 0814482 MAY 79 STAFF
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WAS OLD NEWS, IT 'MAY NOT BE
TO YO;U OR CLAIR SO I THOUGHT I?D PASS IT ALONG TO GIVE YOU SOME
THING TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE WE GET TOGETHER NEXT WEEK,
2. 1LAIMS ITS WORK FOR US (AND BBC) IS DONE BY EXPERTS
ON VARIOUS AREAS. TAKE GDR FOR EXAMPLE1 AS TWO. MONITORS
WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE EXPERTS ON GDR AFFAIRS. THEY PREPARE
SELECTION LISTS WHICH ARE SUBMITTED TO AN EDITOR WHO IS NOT
A "GDR EXPERT". IT CAN BE ANY EDITOR, DEPENDING ON WHO IS ON
DUTY . AND WHO IS LEAST BUSY. WHEN EITHER OF THE TWO. GDR MONITORS
IS O'N,,-LEAVE, GDR STUFF IS HANDLED BY THE ARABIC OR CHINESE
MONITORS WHOSE SELECTION LISTS ARE OFTEN DEFECTIVE, THEN THE
SAME NON-EXPERT EDITORIAL PROCESS TAKES PLACE.
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THEY N E BEEN EMPLOYED 0 LONG,IHOWEVER,, THATSUNDERo
ABOR LAWS THEY D PROBABLY GET FULL EMPLOYEE STATUS
A LY IF .THEY WANTED IT. FEARFUL OF THISILL' NOT LET THEM
SELECT SINCE, IF THEY CAME ON AS FULL STAF THEY THEN WOULD HAVE
TO BE PAID AT EDITOR RATES AND EDITOR RATES ARE CONSIDERABLY
HIGHER THAN FOR TRANSLATORS, K & B WORK ONLY FROM 0830 TO 1230
EACH DAY S ANY LATE BULLETINS ARE HELD OVER UNTIL THE NEXT DAY.
IN FACT AS NO "FLASH" CAPABILITY SINCE EVERYTHING HAS TO
GO THROUGH THE DRILL OF MONITOR LISTING, EDITORIAL SELECTION, AND
THEN TRANSLATION AND E C MMM~ IS TAKEN AS IT COMES IN--NOTHING
BREAKS THE PROC ITERALLY HATES. BOTH K AND B
BECAUSE AT ACH THEY EARN NEARLY AS MUCH AS HE DOES.
EVER, THEY ARE NOOT. ALLOW D SELECT. rSINCEuTHEYT
ARE NOT EMPLOYEES T HEOR E
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SO THAT?S ANOTHER STRIKE AGAINST 'USING THEM TO BETTER ADVANTAGE.
4, ANOTHER REASOPANNOT DO FLASHES IS THAT THEY DON'T
E KNOW HOW. EWS SERVIC FOR YEARS HAS BEEN HEADED BY A
MAN WHO WAS A MORTAL ENEMY OF HE CONSISTENTLY REFUSED
TO USE MATERIALS PRODUCED BY
HAS,,-tADE T HE EDITORS VERY UNHAPPY, BETE AS FINALLY
LEFT THE NEWS SERVICE, BUT IT IS YET TOO LAXLY TO HAVE SEEN ANY
CHANGE. -----
5. THE MONITORS ALSO ARE DESPERATELY UNHAPPY ANDVWEER ANT OTO DO
CON-
BETTER, BUT THEY HAVE VIRTUALLY NO GUIDANCE AND
SULTED ON ANYTHING. INDEED THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE ff!: S F A
PLACE HAS BEEN RUNNING DOWN STEADILY FOR SOME YE S;I
IsE==AP PO INTEE FROM THE SIXTIES AND HA5 BEEN S E DILY
UNDERMINED BY IVALS WHO SURROUND HIM: WILL BE
RETIRING SHOR , ND OF THE YEAR ONE HEARS. THERE S NO HOPE
FOR ANY CHANGE FOR THE BETTER WHILE HE IS THERE. NO WORD ON
HIS' SUCCESSOR.
6. AS YOU MAY KNOW, HAS BEEN INVESTI-
GATING DUPLICATION BETWEE MONITORING AND THAT OF
PRESS AND INFORMATION OFFICE MORE ON THIS WHEN I SEE YOU R
REPORT IS OVERDUE. THEY WILL NOT HAND DOWN A DECISION, BUT WILL
ONLY MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO A COMMITTEE OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY
b`-,UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE- .FOR IMPLE-
MENTING THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS THEY ARE OFTEN QUITE CANDID IN
WHAT THEY RECOMMEND. IF THEY DECIDE THERE IS SIGNIFICANT
DUPLICATION AND THAT SOMETHING SHOULD BE NE ABOUT IT9 WE CAN.
ONLY GUESS WHAT EFFECT THIS MIGHT HAVE ONUTURE.
7. AS YOU SEE, CLAIR IS GOING TO HAVE HIS WORK CUT- OUT
FOR HIM. ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS MUST BE TO WIN THE-CONFIDENCE
OF THE EDITORS AND MONITORS, PARTICULARLY THE LATTER. THEN TO
WORK TO GUIDE AND IMPROVE SELECTION AND ROOT OUT MISTAKES
IN COPY--WRONG NAMES, MISTRANSLATIONS. WHICH ARE FAR MORE
DANGEROUS THAN MERELY TANGLED SYNTAX. THE EDITORS AND MONITORS
DO NOT CHECK FOR MISTAKES IN COPY AND DO NO RESEARCH--RECENTLY
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THEY REFERRED TO THE LATE SECRETARY FORRESTAL AS THE -AMERICAN
GENERAL FALSTAFF (QUERY)0 ' THIS WAS FROM RUSSIAN SOURCE MATERIAL
SO I LEAVE IT TO YOUR IMAGINATION WHERE THE FOUL UP TOOK PLACE
THERE'S PROBABLY A GOOD BIT CLAIR CAN TO --MATERIALS
FROM HEADA (WE VE PROBABLM BEEN
BUT GETT I EOPLE TO USE THEM WILL BE THE CHORE MAYBE
IN TIME HE A N GET THEM TO DO FLASH ITEMS.
LSO DEVELOPED CONSIDERABLE WILL BE SUBJECTTHE
INFORMATION OFFICE WHICH
SEPARA CABLE TO HQS. THEY SOUND VERY UP-TO-DATES CRT DISPLAYS
ELECTRONIC ROUTING, THE WHOLE MEGILLA. WELL WORTH A VISIT AT
SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.
9. RVW S MAY 95"
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