FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00024R000300390010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 19, 1981
• Content Type: REPORT

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FOREIGN BROADCAST ' INFORMATION'SERVICE
Islamabad'Remoting
FBIS' remote monitoring operation from Islamabad to London is now
just over a year old. The FBIS monitoring unit in Islamabad began
operation 2 November 1980, established in response to the Intelligence
Community's interest in improved coverage of South Asia and Soviet Central
Asia. The monitoring is done in a two-story house in a residential area
of Islamabad; its personnel includes one U.S. Staff communicator
is y e Fbib London Bureau. The voice signals monitored are fed over
and two locally-hired technicians. Operational direction
commercially-leased circuits to London via satellite. The material is
translated in London, with selected materials teletyped to FBIS Washington.
Coverage is daily and includes some 30 broadcasts from Soviet Central
Asian radios as well as selected Kabul broadcasts. Five monitors in
London are involved in the processing, in Afghan, Russian, Turkmen, and
Uzbek languages. As part of the arrangement for the FBIS presence in
Islamabad, materials on area developments are supplied to U.S. Embassy
components and the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from copy
wirefiled to Islamabad. 7_1
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Diplomatic Passports
Ambassador Matheron in Mbabane, Swaziland, has recommended to the
Department of State that FBIS officers assigned to Swaziland be provided
diplomatic passports. He noted in a telegram to the Department that FBIS
Americans would be the only Embassy officers not having such passports.
This follows by about a month State Department approval for a diplomatic
passport for the FBIS Staff communicator assigned to Islamabad, requested
by the Ambassador to Pakistan. Of all overseas FBIS personnel, only
three bureau chiefs--in Vienna, Amman, and Tel Aviv--now have diplomatic
passports granted by State. FBIS has tried unsuccessfully over the ears
to secure diplomatic credentials for at least its bureau chiefs. 25X1
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U.S.-Soviet Talks
The FBIS Analysis Group traced the Soviet public posture on inter-
mediate nuclear forces (TNF) since 1960.in a special study prepared for
the U.S. delegation to the impending U.S.-Soviet talks on limiting INF.
NFAC's Arms Control Intelligence Staff requested the report r the
delegation's use in preparatory meetings now in progress.
New JPRS Publications
FBIS is initiating two new serial publications in its JPRS (Joint
Publications Translation Service) distribution. These include cover-to-
cover translation of the Soviet journal WORLD ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS, which is published in Russian by a leading Soviet institute,
and SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, a cross-disciplinary spectrum of
Russian-language articles on Soviet policy relating to organizing, plan-
ning, implementing, and administering science and technology. Articles
from these journals have previously appeared as ad hoc translations in
various FBIS publications.
Service to Vice President
On 13 November the Vice President's office requested two TASS items
from FBIS, one criticizing the Vice President'S speech at MIT on 30 October,
and the other asserting that Mr. Bush is orchestratin a press campaign
regarding the Soviet submarine incident off Sweden. 25X1
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