DEAR BILL:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00803R000300130010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 26, 1998
• Content Type: LETTER

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Deputy Chief
I want to thank you to begin with for your excellent informative
letter on your TIDY in Seoul in April. We have now carefully circulated
each annex to the responsible Readquarters officers and have pulled
together, I think, the answers you need. Let me go down the list of
topics one by one.
1. Floor Plan; No one had problems with that. surmised STAT
that there might be some minor adjustments, but none that would involve
a change in the basic layout you proposed. You can work out the details
with on the spot. STAT
2. Wag Scale: The wage scale you proposed is approved in
principle. The only hangup is the authorization of three unit chie
of p i&CD wants to cogitate on that for a couple more days. STAT
3.Transportation: We concur in the purchase of a Nissan bus,
as you recommend in your cable.
4. Communications. We are very pleased with the initial affirma-
tive response you received froTto the proposal for a STAT
joint unclassified vireroom. The proposal also surfaced during the
recent "regional review" which Jerry and I attended at State. STAT
the Executive Director of the Bureau of East Asian and J I H
Pacific Affairs, brought it up unsolicited as an example of the kind
of benefits an embassy gets from having an FBIS bureau affiliated
with it. But this reaction notwithstanding, I miss in your letter
you onal view pro or-coat. The feelings here are mixed. STAT
the same advantage in Seoul as in Amman because is close enough STAT
that we can have our own circuit out of Seoul w out saddling our.
selves with the obligation to handle State's traffic. I accept_STAT
and point but believe that it will always be easier to justify J I H 1
one unclassified wireroom in the same building than two, and that it
ties the bureau's interests closer to the embassy's. Having taken the
initiative, we can now write the rules by which the joint vireroom
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will be run; we might not if we are later forced to merge our wireroom
with the embassy's in a State--originated economy move. Please advise
me of your position by admia message. If we are all agreed, I will
pull out our old request for the Amman joint wireroom, polish it up
for Seoul and vet it through OC and State in time for implementation
when you return to Seoul in August.
Assure ing we have a joint wireroom, I concur that we should take
over the Embassy's Mode V TCV and entry into the Taegu ASC. If
is available by the time you go into operation, we might use. the second
as an altroute. OC has told us we can have it. Once
we would use it as our primary route and Probably the
AUTUDIN as our altroute. But when that time comes, we sh u
another look at our options and weigh reliability of against
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5. Race tlon. Survey and Antennas: Jack's reception survey
confirms F earlier findings concerning reception at the i mi avsy. STAT
?CS and ES strongly recommend that you seek embassy perwission to set
up an abbreviated longwire antenna on the roof. It would be a very
low-profile antenna, probably not at all visible from the street.
The longwire would supplement the fan dipoles, particularly during; the
inevitable fading at midevening. It would enable some reception of
North and South Korea, Japan, the PP.C and some Soviet Far'aet stations
on the ucediurswave and lower shortwave frequencies. In particular, Lopes
believes you could pick up Peking Domestic Service and at least four
PRC regionals with the longwire, thus enabling you to get a limited
Chinese monitoring operation going even before the PSr' installation is
in place. Knowing the embassy's opposition to adding antennas on the
chancery roof, we will have to leave it to your suasion to obtain the
necessary permission.
6. Payin for aIt a As you are aware, the fiscal Outlook for the
Transitional Quarter is very tight. by the time you start your Tf3Y in
Seoul, you should have from us a TKO spending authorization, based on
your projections in OW080. This message was very helpful. Throughout
the TQ, you should keep us very closely advised of your spending as well
as any changes in your projections.
I believe that covers it, Bill. Please let us know by admin
message or cable if you have any questions or new information relevant
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to planning. Unfortunately, I expect to be swa from Headquarters
during your TDB' here. I want to wish you, and your entire STAT
family a very pleasant and iuteresting tour in Seoul.
With beat regards
Actilig , uperations Croup
Distribution:
Orig. & 1 -- Addressee
2 - Ops
1 - Exec. Reg.
(7 Jun 76)
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