FBIS TRANSLATIONS ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00024R000400310003-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 2, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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DCI/IC 82-5186
2 December 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Charles Briggs
Executive Director
Central Intelligence Agency
FROM: RADM E. A. Burkhalter, Jr., USN
Director, Intelligence Community Staff
SUBJECT: FBIS Translations on International Terrorism
1. In May 1982, the Intelligence Community Staff, Office of
HUMINT Collection, sponsored and funded an experiment for the translation
by FBIS of backlogged Community holdings of foreign-language documents
on international terrorism. This was done with the understanding that
should the translations prove to be of intelligence value, the effort
would be continued and institutionalized.
2. We have been apprised of the positive results of the consumer
survey regarding this pilot project; this evaluation indicates that
there is a distinct role within the Intelligence Community for such
translations by FBIS, disseminated as a JPRS serial publication. We
believe that a solid case has been made for continued FBIS translation
of this material, particularly in light of Interagency Intelligence
Committee on Terrorism (IICT) interest and that committee's stated
willingness to establish a mechanism to ensure proper selection and
screening of materials to be translated.
3. I therefore request that FBIS make the appropriate budget
adjustments to accommodate these translations, concomitant with its
responsibilities assigned under Director of Central Intelligence Directive
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (20 July 1982), to act as a service
of common concern. We suggest that FBIS initiate budget reprogramming
action for FY 83; funding for FY 84 might be accomplished by including
an FBIS component in the CIA budget's counterterrorism theme.
4. Both the IICT and the Intelligence Community Staff, Office of
Program and Budget Coordination, have agreed to this arrangement, and we
are assured that such budget adjustments would receive their support.
E. A. Burkhalter, Jr.
Rear Admiral, USN
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