FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE NEWSLETTER

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 1, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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Foreign Broadcast
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NEWSLETTER
Edition 85-6
1 November 1985
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NEWSLETTER 1 November 1985
MODERNIZATION DEVELOPMENTS.
FBIS Automation
After initial orientation tours at FBIS Headquarters in late August,
Lockheed engineers have met with personnel from the Wire, the Daily Report,
MOD, LRB, JPRS and others for more detailed discussions about the
Automated FBIS System (AFS). We are now in the early system design stage
leading to the Initial Design Review scheduled for 14-21 November. The
automation program is proceeding on schedule. GE contractors have visited
London, Vienna, and Key West bureaus in connection with the Integration
Contract. (C)
Non-AFS Modernization Initiatives
In addition to the Automated FBIS System, there are more than 50
non-AFS modernization initiatives now underway or proposed in FBIS, in
such areas as administration, collection, communications, information
management, production, and research and development. (C)
Internet
The FBIS Internet system is moving ahead as scheduled. Following
INTELSAT's approval of the FBIS transponder lease on 10 September, FBIS is
now proceeding toward arranging construction of earth terminals in Britain,
Panama, and Quantico to complete Phase I of the system. Internet is still
expected to become operational in October 1986. (C)
HEPTOVAPTERS PELOCATION
Plans continue for the relocation of FBIS Headquarters components in
the Key, Ames, and Broyhill buildings into a single structure or complex.
We hope to have a new site ready for occupancy in late 1987 so we can
install the automated system directly into the new building. A location
near the Metro system is one of the objectives in looking for a suitable
site. (S)
HIS OPEN HOUSE
On Satunday, 21 Septembek, az pakt o4 the 4amity visitation day
4on the entike Agency, FBIS gave a touk o4 the Wine and MOD'4 TV Centek
4ok aU intekezted empt.oyees and theik iamitiez. Response waz gkeatek
than anticipated, with about 97 peopte taking the tom o4 the Wine
duting the day, and 4ome 30 visiting MOD. Mot vizitou weke linom FBIS,
with a 4ew itom othen Agency components. (U/ATUO)
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The Field Engineering Division has moved from Key Building to the 8th
floor of Ames Building. (C)
MOP ACTIVITIES
Langley TV Dish
FBIS began supplying Soviet television programming to Agency
consumers on 16 September, using the newly constructed satellite dish
at Langley. Signals from the dish are fed to analysts live and recorded
via an OCR television net. Subsequently, live television feeds from
Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal were added. Material from the latter
two countries is intermittent. A video link between the dish at
Headquarters and Key Building has also been installed. (C)
The dish is manned by operators from the Monitoring Operations
Division using remote control equipment located in the video operations
room of OCR. It provides selected live Soviet television programming
of the GORIZONT satellite located at 14 degrees west; some East European
programming is available from the Soviet bloc Intervision satellite
pass-feeds. The West European coverage comes from monitoring of several
INTELSAT satellites. (C)
The Achille Lauro affair marked the first substantive use of the dish
for live coverage of Italian television. DI analysts were able to view
first via this source an excerpt of Craxi's resignation speech and the
final autopsy report on Leon Klinghoffer. (U/AIUO)
The White House asked FBIS for the first Moscow television comment
on the President's UN speech, in the form of a videotape. MOD provided a
videotape of a 4-minute commentary by Zorin on Soviet television recorded
from the Langley dish, with the English dubbed on the tape from
a translation wirefiled by London Bureau. (U/AIUO)
MOD has arranged to receive every Monday morning the coming week's
edition of GOVORIT, the Soviet TV guide. This enables FBIS to identify
items of potential interest to SOVA which can be picked up by the Langley
dish. (C)
TV Center
MOD's TV center is slowly taking shape. Recent equipment
acquisitions include a second broadcast standards converter, which has
eliminated recurring backlogs of tapes awaiting conversion from foreign
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broadcast standards to the U.S. system. In addition, MOD has also taken
delivery on Sony-model video editing equipment, enabling the Center to
produce edited videotapes for briefings, presentations or anthology tape
production. Additional video equipment is on order which will allow for
titling, narration, and addition of camera shots to videotape material
produced by the Center. This equipment is expected to be in place and
operating by late 1986. (U/AIUO)
FBIS-BBC Satellite Monitoring Committee
The first meeting of the FBIS-BBC Satellite Monitoring Committee was
held at Caversham 2-4 October. Areas of common concern were identified
and steps taken to facilitate information exchange. (U/AIUO)
NEWS FROM THE BUREAUS
A long-range FBIS plan is to recapitalize field installations.
Housing is now being constructed for the first time at the Key West Bureau
and replacement and reconstruction of housing at the Okinawa Bureau will
soon get underway in phases. In addition, a new operations building is
being built at Nicosia and the Jordan Bureau will become part of a new
Embassy complex. The Tel Aviv Bureau moved to commercial quarters on 30
October, finally giving up its cramped quarters in the Embassy Annex. (S)
The lease on the new Nicosia Bureau site was signed on 12 September
and the construction contract was signed on 27 September. Work began on
schedule on 4 October with completion expected in one year. (U/AIUO)
Bangkok Bureau has received approval from the Thai government for
microwave frequency links needed for the Bangkok ROSET facility. All
approvals needed to begin operations are now in hand, and installation of
equipment is on schedule. (U/AIUO)
Austrian Bureau has begun monitoring Albanian television on a trial
basis from the Brindisi site. A local contractor records the broadcasts
and forwards them to Vienna. The newscasts represent the first visual
reportage seen from this closed country, and may be the only such material
available to analysts in Washington. The bureau will report on content
after a representative sampling has been obtained. (U/AIUO)
Panama Bureau remained open 24 hours on the day of the Mexican
earthquake to monitor breaking developments from Mexican television.
Southern Command staff officers visited the bureau to view damage on
television in order to brief the CINCSC on possible disaster assistance.
An earlier scoop from Panama's new satellite monitoring of Mexican TV came
with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid's 1 September State of the
Nation speech. The prompt and full coverage this year contrasts with past
years, when only sketchy reports were available from poor to unmonitorable
Mexican shortwave broadcasts or from press agencies. (C)
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Panama Bureau has for the first time monitored via satellite the
United Nations television service. The program monitored included UNGA
speeches by a number of world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister
Peres. (U/AIUO)
Ryzhkov's replacement of Tikhonov as Soviet premier was picked up by
London PMU from the satellite facsimile transmission of the next day's
PRAVDA. The item resulted in a Critic, and was available to analysts more
than an hour before the story was picked up by the major press agencies
from a subsequent TASS report. (C)
On 25 October London Bureau monitored from satellite the text of the
new CPSU draft program as printed in the 26 October PRAVDA. The Daily
Report edited the 40,000-word translation as a special DAILY REPORT
supplement which was on analysts' desks by 00B on Monday morning. (U/AIUO)
On 1 September, Seoul Bureau dropped its midnight shift. The shift
had never been productive and was a drain on personnel resources. The
bureau has worked out procedures under which Okinawa Bureau will be able
to provide emergency Korean coverage if Seoul is unable to get people to
work quickly in the middle of the night. (U/AIUO)
Abidjan Bureau began two-shift weekend operations on 28 September and
is now open 0600-2230 GMT throughout the week. (U/AIUO)
Acting Genetat Managen oi the BBC Monitofting Savice
haz nezianed. He Witt Aemain on duty, howevek, untit ha zuccezzon
named. (U)
PPODI.ICTIV GP01.113 DEVELOPMENTS
Production Group translated the White Paper "Soviet Acquisition of
Militarily Significant Western Technology: An Update" into eight foreign
languages. Nineteen intelligence officers worked on the priority project
full time in a task which took hundreds of manhours. (C)
The day of the Achille Lauro hijacking, three Production Group
language officers worked overnight in OCPAS translating into English ship
design documents in French, Italian, and Japanese. (C)
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USSR Division and SOVA are collaborating on a 2-year project, funded
by SOVA and managed by FBIS, for translation on diskettes of 4-6 million
words from back issues of the MILITARY HISTORY JOURNAL for SOVA's data
base. The translations will be carried out by JPRS contract personnel.
(U/AIUO)
Through an arrangement with DIA, NEAD will translate 26 classified
Chinese military journals considered of major significance by DIA. The
journals, issued monthly from 1978-1983, carry articles written by senior
command and staff officers and by the Central Military Commission. The
first articles to be translated will deal with chemical, nuclear, and
biological warfare. Complete translation of the 1.2 million words is
expected to take 6-8 months. (S)
UD published an article from an Azerbaijani scholarly journal in
Azeri containing the first data seen on the working age population of
the USSR since the 1979 census. The information was included in a NID
item. (S)
Recently, a limited number of copies of CHOSON INMINGUN, the official
organ of the Korean People's Army, dated July 1984 to February 1985
suddenly became available for the first time. The publication has always
been tightly controlled and has never been available outside the country
through normal subscription channels. NEAD will translate and publish
selected articles. (S)
JPRS now has 80 independent contractors submitting translations on
diskettes, 28 percent of the total JPRS output. The diskettes reduce
editing time and eliminate retyping. (U/AIUO)
At the request of the Arms Control Intelligence Staff, the format and
handling of the JPRS WORLDWIDE REPORT: ARMS CONTROL have been revised to
improve its usefulness to high-level consumers specifically interested in
SDI material. Relevant material is now published in an "SDI and Space
Arms" section (renamed from "Space Arms"), which has been moved to the
front of the report to facilitate accessibility. Turnaround time has been
greatly reduced by simplifying prepublication checks and decreasing the
size of each report. (U/AIUO)
On 31 August, Africa Program published an updated "Reference Aid:
Abbreviations in the Sub-Saharan African Press." The reference aid is
completely automated and will be updated on a regular basis. On 25
September JPRS published a "Glossary of French Terms in Africa," which
has been put online. The "Vietnam Fact Book," a 164-page compilation of
background information, was published by JPRS on 7 August. (U/AIU0)
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PrALYSIS (ROUP NEWS
Analysis Group has been providing support to various consumers in
connection with preparations for the November Soviet-U.S. summit meeting.
At the request of the Assistant NIO for the USSR, AG provided the White
House with materials to assist President Reagan in preparing for a meeting
with four Soviet journalists similar to Gorbachev's interview with TIME
magazine. AG selected recent quotations about the Administration and U.S.
policies from each of the correspondents as well as providing samples from
other Soviet sources on these issues. AG provided the White House
Research Staff with a Kosygin quote on anti-missile systems which was used
in a Presidential speech. (C)
At the request of the Assistant Nb/USSR, AG is producing a weekly
analysis note on Soviet-U.S relations during the period leading up to the
summit. At the request of Under Secretary of Defense Ikle, AG located
several items from Soviet media cited in a Moscow Embassy cable as
examples of anti-U.S. propaganda leading up to the summit. AG has been
actively working with SOVA in preparing briefing material for President
Reagan prior to the summit, including assistance on a film and providing
reports from the Soviet press on U.S. domestic events. (C)
In response to a request from the PDB, AG and Media Notes prepared a
world reaction report on the President's UN speech and forwarded it to New
York in time for the President's briefing the morning following the
speech. (C)
Responding to a cable from the Embassy in Prague asking for an
analysis of any differences between the versions of the Gorbachev
interview for TIME as published in TIME, PRAVDA, and RUDE PRAVO, AG was
able to confirm that the PRAVDA and RUDE PRAVO versions were virtually
identical. AG referred the embassy to its already published analysis of
the differences between the PRAVDA and TIME versions. (C)
The Arms Control Intelligence Staff asked AG for an update of a
special analytical memorandum on Soviet statements on SDI. The original
memo had been sent to the Secretary of Defense and the Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs. Other SDI/disarmament special
services included a response to the General Counsel on whether there has
been a shift in the Soviet position on deployment of space-based ABM
systems, and assistance to the Stockholm CDE delegation regarding a Soviet
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS article. (C)
The U.S. delegation to the CDE asked AG for an analysis of Soviet
media play on the Stockholm conference since the beginning of the year,
including Soviet coverage of proposals calling for an exchange of
information and verification or on-site inspection. (C)
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AG responded to a query from USIA Director Wick for an update on
Soviet comment on President Reagan. USIA was given a computer run of
Soviet leadership comments and a printout of lower level commentaries.
(U/AIU0)
Prior to the departure of Assistant Secretary of State Wolfowitz for
Moscow, AG provided him with a memo noting a change in tone in Moscow's
public commentary on Chinese economic reform since Gorbachev assumed
power. (C)
At the request of the AJNIO for Counterterrorism, AG briefed him
on initial reaction to Israel's raid on PLO targets in Tunis and produced
a special report focusing on Arab perceptions of the U.S. role in the
affair. (C)
AWARDS
The HIS Engineeting Divizion, now known az the Fieed Engineeking
Divizion, waz awaAded- the Agency'z MenitolLiouz Unit Citation in a
ce/Lemony at Langte on 20 S bei. The awaAd, Aeceived on behat4
o4 the diviision by Aecognized the divizion'z iine wok/a
Ln dezigning and imp ementing the zatettite monitoAing 4aciaty in
Panama. The pnezentation, attended by zenim. Agency o44iciatz, wa4
mad b Eva Hineman, Deputy Ditecton tioA Science and Technotogy.
waz awaAded the Ca-'Leet Intettigence Meda-.. (S)
RUZ awatded the Intettigence Commendation Medea,.
DEATHS
FBIS was saddened to learn that who retired a year
ago from NEAD died September 22 at the National Institutes of
Health. had been ill for a number of years. (U)
FBIS learned of the death, on September 9, of
formerly served in FBIS in an administrative capacity.
who
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