(Classified)FOREIGN POWERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64-00658A000100140023-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 23
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Lt. Gen. Hoy; S. Vandenberg,
Rear Admiral Thomas B. Inglis,
Brig. Gen. George C. McDonald,
Mr. Alfred McCormack,
Honorable J. Edgar Hoover.
SUBJECT: Monitoring of Press and Propagnada Broadcasts of
Foreign Powers.
E946.
REFERENCE: (a) C I . G Directive No, 2 dated &F
(b) Rgb P~.Ad Hoc Committee to
l.''.DuM-Cesar, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) con-
ducted a
rich monitored
press and propaganda broadcasts of foreign powers. The FCC was in pro-
cess of liquidating this agency when its functions were taken over by
the War Department on an :AsEbsis on 30 December 1915.
2. The product of the - has. been valuable to State Department,
to the intelligence agencies of the War and Navy Departments, to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and undoubtedly to other Departments
and agencies.
3. The War Department has requested that a permanent disposition
of the functions of monitoring press and propaganda broadcasts of
foreign powe ?s be determined since the interim arrangements would
cease at the end of the Fiscal Year 1946.
4. Discussion of this matter is furnished in Enclosure "A",
It is concluded that:-
a.Thef function of monitoring foreign press and propaganda broad-
casts should be performed as a War Department operation, said opera-
tion to be performed under directives as to collection and distribution
to be issued by the Director of Central Intelligence.
b. The present organization operating the service should be
liquidated and supplanted by a new organization, the liquidation
and reorganization to be accomplished by the War Department in such
manner that there shall be a minimum of interruption in the accompli.sh+-
meet ai the tnissi200010$9 : GlA DP 4-00 a Director of Central Intelligence.
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c. The State and Navy Departments should assist the War Department,
within the measure of their capabilities, in the.accomp7ishment of
the missions assigned by the Director of Central Intelligence.
It is recommended that:--
a. The Draft Directive (Enclosure 11C11) be concurred in prior to
its submission to the N.I.A.
b. The Assistant Chief of Staff, 0-2, designate an officer to be
responsible for carrying out the missions assigned by the Director
.of Central Intelligence pursuant to paragraph 3. of the Draft Direc-
tive (Enclosure ttC't) .
c. Each member of the Intelligence Advisory Board designate a
representative to serve as member of a committee to assist the
Director of Central Intelligence in giving direction to the function
of monitoring press and propaganda broadcasts of foreign powers.
,SIDNEY W. SOUERS
Director
Enclosures:- "A" - Discussion.
UBf - Report by Director of Central Intelligence.
Oct, -- Draft Directive..
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