FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00024R000500210031-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: July 14, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
CONFIDENTIAL
Iranian Attack
The FBIS bureaus in Bahrain and Jordan are assuming primary
responsibility for covering the media of Iran and Iraq in connection
with Iran's latest attack on Iraqi forces in the Basra area. The Gulf
Bureau, located in Manama, Bahrain, is providing close coverage of
Tehran domestic broadcasts as well as Iranian broadcasts in Arabic. The
BBC Monitoring Service, which during the Iranian hostage crisis provided
the basic coverage of Tehran domestic broadcasts, provided little help
during the latest phase of the Iranian-Iraqi War because of poor recep-
tion of Iranian broadcasts at its listening posts. The FBIS Jordan
Bureau, in Amman, is providing round-the-clock coverage of Baghdad's
domestic service and the Iraqi "Voice of the Masses" transmissions.
Monitored material is also being processed by FBIS Jordan from the Iraqi
News Agency (INAand by FBIS Gulf and the BBC from the Iranian Press
Agency (IRNA).
Computer Technology
FBIS documents officers are continuing to provide alerts to the
Intelligence Community on developments in both Japanese and Soviet
computer technology. During the past week FBIS processed a Japanese
document giving detailed technical specifications of the new, major
Japanese mainframe computer, the ACOS System 1000. In the Soviet micro-
processor field, FBIS is translating the Soviet work, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
MICROPROCESSOR FAMILIES.' OSWR analysts say the document provides the
first available information on the Soviet production of ECL (emitter-
coupled logic) bit-slice microprocessors and gate arrays. It also
provides the first acknowledgement of Soviet-East German cooperation on
a microprocessor integrated circuit. Besides giving technical specifi-
cations of the Soviet-East German circuit, the document says the Soviets
have obtained a density of 300,000 elements per chip. OSWR officers
observe that if this claim is true it would put the Soviets on a level
comparable to current Western standards.
Military Commands
FBIS services 150 U.S. military consumers around the world by
direct wire service from field bureaus. This week, at the Navy's
request, the U.S. South Atlantic Command was added as a consumer of 32
"lateral" (direct) services covering Cuba, the Atlantic Coast of Africa,
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and most of the countries of Central and South America as well as the
Caribbean. In addition, the Department of the Army's Deputy Chief of
Staff for Operations and Plans (Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate)
became "l~teral" consumer for information on Cuba, Nicaragua, and the
USSR.
Support for DDO
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