LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP94-00798R000200150040-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 19, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
P.O. Box 2604
Washington, D.C. 20013
Deputy Chief
Okinawa Bureau, FBIS
Dear Bill:
MHO-6032
19 March 1986
Subject: London Emergency Coverage
I have your 28 February memorandum reacting to MOD's initial cut at
a London Bureau emergency plan. As I'm sure you recall from your
presence at MOD's creation, these plans, for all bureaus, have been a
ve ion time gestating. Both and his predecessor here,
SI-AT
have put a great deal of effort into them, and the end is SI-AT
a most in sight. As Chuck stated in his covering memo, feedback from
the field is not only welcome but vital in making these papers
worthwhile.
As we tried to make clear, MOD intends these first cuts to serve
only as guidelines, with details to be worked out as and when necessary
by the bureaus most affected. I hope Okinawa will try to do that with
London, Austria, and Panama, and I will see that those bureaus receive
copies of this letter.
By way of background for your coordination, MOD tried to build the
London plan around the following principles:
. Plan for the worst case; then modify if it's better.
. Retain as much Class A as possible.
. Try to keep TASS English and Russian in the same place.
. Save at a minimum World Service-English.
. Try to save the pressfax.
. Just plan for the present; crank modernized systems into the plan
only when they are ready to go on line.
Of course the Moscow English could be concentrated at one bureau;
MOD has no difficulty at all with that. The problem with TASS Russian
(Cyrillic) is that as far as MOD knows it's no longer on HF radio, but
must be taken either from landline or from satellite.
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The Okinawa alumni in MOD are genuinely aware of your Russian
monitor situation in all its irinnite variety; we envisioned your
people, plus the London reinforcements, plus the fax operation as
supported by your techs as being just about the right mix over a 3-week
to 3-month period. Please let us know if you can't work this out.
I really don't want to get too heavily into the communications plan,
which properly isn't MOD's venue; however, rest assured that this first
version was coordinated with Commo Branch.
Basically we wanted to give you something you can work from and can
build on as necessary. Let's stay in touch on this; if we all keep at
it we'll eventually get it right.
cc: Chief, London Bureau, FBIS
Chief, Panama Bureau, FBIS
Chief, Austria Bureau, FBIS
Chief, onitor erations Division
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1 - C/PA
1 - C/AU
1 - Plan 10
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