BACKGROUNDER ON FBIS PHILIPPINES COVERAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-00733R000200250033-0
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 16, 1985
• Content Type: MISC

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FROM EXTENSION NO.
FBIS-0428/85
Director, orelgn roadcast DATE
Information Service 17 October 1985
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and
building)
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1. Deputy Director for
Science and Technology
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Gary:
2. Room 6E45, Headquarters
Attached is a brief backgrounder
on the FBIS situation regarding the
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Philippines.
I believe Evan and Jim Hirsch
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would be interested in seeing this.
PRS would also be interested, as
anything we do for increased
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Philippine coverage will be
unfunded.
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D/FBIS
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16 October 1985
BACKGROUNDER ON FBIS PHILIPPINES COVERAGE
1. Current FBIS Philippines coverage
+ Total of 1 hour, 40 minutes per day
+ Reception is fair to poor
+ All coverage at Hong Kong Bureau
+ Press receipts vary from 1-10 days
2. Issues
+ There are many more mediumwave transmitters than are audible
at any FBIS site
+ Coverage is adequate in existing circumstances; coverage
would not be adequate in crisis
+ FBIS has no beachhead in the Philippines
3. Problems
+ Embassy opposes increase to American staff in Philippines
+ Wants to be convinced there is information gap which must be
filled by FBIS
+ Suggests "imaginative" approach; willing to consider proposals
4. FBIS Plans
+ Send team to Manila to conduct detailed content study of
Philippine radios
+ Study coverage for crisis and emergency reporting potential
+ Conduct radio reception surveys on perimeter -- Hong Kong
Island, Guam, Malaysia
+ Develop and coordinate plan; send proposal to Embassy
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