TELEVISION MONITORING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-00733R000100160078-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: January 7, 1985
• Content Type: LETTER

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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
MHQ-5001
7 January 1985
Panama Bureau, FBIS
Subject: Television Monitoring
Some of our messages recently may not have made much sense to you,
so I thought it was time to bring you up to date on some of our problems
that affect the general area of television monitoring.
The stirring in the DI on the subject of TV monitoring reached a
crescendo in December when five (count 'em) DI office directors sent me a
memo requesting that FBIS establish live TV monitoring at Langley. After
numerous meetings, we now have a task force developing a plan to set up
dishes for live monitoring here, to be operated by FBIS and to be com-
patible with the INTERNET deliveries. This is one reason we are anxious
to learn what is monitorable in the Western Hemisphere, particularly from
Europe.
Secondly, with various budget hearings coming up I strongly suspect
INTERNET will once again be under the gun. As you may know, Phase I of
INTERNET, which is funded, will include Panama, London, and Headquarters
(using Quantico). We need to have at least a tentative coverage schedule
for Panama as soon as possible to help defend the system.
Thirdly, the Nicosia ROSET is on hold because Congress chopped
$6 million from our '85 budget (we took $4 million from the original
INTERNET program, and $2 million from the Mideast ROSET). We are now
almost ready to plunge into the Bangkok ROSET, which will be a sister
ship of your ROSET. Thus, to keep ROSET on track, I want to be ready to
give extensive time in the forthcoming briefings to what Panama can do
and is doing. Incidentally, Harry's film is excellent in showing how
impressive the Panama ROSET really is.
So that's why the pressure. Obviously it will take time to cruise
everything out, but we need to do it sooner rather than later.
Sincerely,
ALL PORTIONS ARE
CONFIDENTIAL.
CONFIDENTIAL
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DDS>`,T/FBIS)
Distribution:
Orig - Addressee
1 - D/FBIS Chrono
1 - JDC Corres file
1 - Television file
1 - MHQ file
1 - FBIS Registry
(7 Jan 85)
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/06/18: CIA-RDP88-00733R000100160078-2