ISLAMABAD SURVEY REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00868R000100050011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2007
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 6, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Operations Group
FROM; Chief, Field Coverage Staff
SUBJECT:' Islamabad Survey Report
1. Attached is a copy of the report on the Islamabad
monitorability and program schedule survey prepared by Richard G.
Measharn, Chief Monitor, World Schedules Section, BBC- Monitoring
Service. The serve was carried out by I4easham with' the assis-
.tance of from 4 to 10 October. STAT
2. The purpose of NNeaasham?s Islamabad TDY basically was
twofold -- to assist and instruct in locating potential STAT
coverage and useable frequencies ~or e primary and, secondary
coverage targets projected for . the Islamabad Unit and to :recheck.
reception data - for these targets which had been previously -
surveyed in January.19 79.
.3. On the basis of his report and material supplied by .
it appears Measham did an ex ellent job and, accomplished .a
great deal in the short time he was in Islamabad. Unfortunately,
because the.time alloted for actual survey work was reduced in
the end to 5 days, rather-'than the 2 weeks that-we originally
estimated would be required, the survey objectives were not fully
. accomplished. " (The reduction in actual survey time was the
result of a combination of factors, including the .Moscow fre-
guency changes which required Measham's presence in London and
last minute travel complications which could not have been
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foreseen.) Only.the primary targets- Soviet regional, Afghan
and Iranian regional stations-.-- were checked, the latter only
superficially. Ites not clear how much time was spent in
actually locating.potential'coverage newscasts and other'
programs and instructing in this process- However, it STAT
appears that spent a good deal of :time working with Measham.,. biHi
and the final report includes program schedules for many of the
stations, which should make locating coverage fairly easy.
4. The results of N1eashames reception checks do not differ
uignificantly from the findings of the 1979 reception surveyo -and
most of the differences probably can be chalked up to seasonal-
reception variations and/or slight differences between BBC's and
our -methods .of, rating reception; ' Some of the salient points of
Heasham.'s report follow:
+ Islamabad should be able to provide excellent
coverage of Afghanistan, including full broadcast
day coverage of the Mabul' Domestic Service F irst
Program (for backstop or for primary coverage
should BBC lose access to the "feeder circui' from
which it is now monitoring this service) and Second
Program.
+ Good coverage should be available of Kabul Inter-
national Service broadcasts in English and Urdu.to
South Asia. Kabul International Service broadcasts
to Europe and the Middle-East in Russian, Arabic'
Pashto/?sari, German and English could not be moni-.
Cored. This corresponds. t'o the finding of the 1979
survey:
+ The three Afghan regional stations in Herat,
! andahar and flazarwi-Sharif were heard but with ,in-
adequate. reception for reliable monitoring.
+ A brief check of Iranian regional stations located
four in western Iran that could be heard with adequate
reception during hours of darkness (none were located
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during hours'. of daylight); those urero Bandar Abass,
Zabol, gahedan and Tayebad. Two additional' station:
(Jiroft, and 3irjand) which had boon beard during the
1079 survey with adequate reception, were also heard,
but with poor and very poor reception.
+ ` chran International Service broadcasts in Urdu and
Pashto to South Asia --:ere heard with adequate reception.
The broadcast in Russian to the USSR was heard only
briefly. (observations at other bureaus indicated. that
this particular service was the Victim oaf.some- type of
technical difficulties.for . poriod of -several sleeks. un-
til approximately 20 October, it should be adequatel
onitorable in Islamabad).
+ Three Soviet regional stations -- AIM6 Ata (Kazakh
SSR), Dushanbe (:.adzhik*S5R) and Tashkent (Uzbek SCR)--
wore found to be monitorable throughout the broadcast
day. Two stations -- Frunze (Kirghiz SSR) and Ashkhabad
(Turks en 'SSA) were monitorablo during hours of darkness.
Three lower-level Raz& h stations -- Chi kent, ;yzl
Crda, and Taldy Xurgan -- wore heard' but with .nadequate -
reception for reliable coverage, it is.possible recep-
tion will improve from late October to larch, 'Fergana,
a lower-level T irghiz station, apparently was not
checked. This covers go picture is lightly- less. opti-
mistic than the projocted. on the basis of the, 197
survey; however, as noted earlier, reception could
improve with seasonal-changes and/or-possibly improved
antennas.
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