FY 1987 BUDGET REDUCTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-01147R000100100052-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: October 2, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
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Director, Foreign Broadcast
``Information Service
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Resources Staff, DS&T
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FBIS-0329/86
2 October 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Planning and Resources Staff, DSET
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
SUBJECT: FY 1987 Budget Reductions
1. FBIS will cover the "revised option #6" reductions to its FY
1987 budget as follows:
Operations Group
Engineering Support Group
Production Group
ROSET-INTERNET
Total
2. Operations Group already faces serious shortfalls in FY 1987
funding for the delivery of foreign TV to DI analysts on a timely basis,
establishment of a remote monitoring unit to improve coverage of the
Philippines, urgent communications upgrades, consultant services to
validate data to support foreign national wa _ escales in FBIS overseas
bureaus, and vital operational travel. Acut means eliminating
some or all of the above projects. This reduction also would have a
negative impact on field bureau planning for necessary security enhance-
ments as well as improvements in monitoring capability through new
technological developments. It would reduce FBIS flexibility to meet
crisis situations requiring expanded coverage through antenna upgrades,
establishment of remote monitoring , and communications
enhancements. The full impact of a cut in bureau funds is
further exacerbated by the fall in the value of the dollar in relation
to most major world currencies in the period b twe n the bureaus'
original program plan submissions and FY 1987
3. reduction in the Engineering Base will severely
impact a number of already deferred support efforts, particularly the
replacement program for old and obsolete equipment. Aging equipment and
day-to-day maintenance requirements continue to consume the available
Base resources usually at the expense of new items. Cutting the Engineer-
ing Base impacts across the board and clearly affects our ability to
continue to support the timely and reliable delivery of field collected
information to Headquarters.
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SUBJECT: FY 1987 Budget Reductions
4. A loss ofl lin Production Group's contractual
translation services in FY 1987 will seriously affect the production
of intelligence from open source printed media at a time of increasing
Community emphasis on such material. A reduction of this severity (some
35 million words) means curtailment of coverage that will include report-
ing on Soviet engineering, physics, and biomedical technology and on such
current high interest topics as terrorism, arms control, technology
transfer, and drug trafficking. This cut, following similarly severe
cuts in FY 1986, presents the Agency with danger of losing its unique
"stable" of FBIS contract translators.
5. The loss of in the ROSET-INTERNET segment of the
Modernization Program Will deter West European Bureau equipment acquisi-
tion pending determination of actual site construction costs. The cut
undoubtedly will result in split year (87-88) funding for the ROSET
equipment and impact the activation schedule for INTERNET at the new
bureau. Timely coverag tant European direct-broadcast satellite
d
targets will be delaye
DS$T/FBIS/E$P$
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - D/FBIS Chrono
1 - RWM Corres File
1 - C/EFPS Chrono
1 - C/E$PS
1 - PO/RA
1 - C/Ops
1 - C/AG
1 - C/ESG
1 - C/Prod
1 - FBIS Registry
1 - Circulation Copy
(20ct86)
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