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• Publication Date: September 1, 1986
• Content Type: REPORT

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FACT SHEET
1 September 1986
FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
MISSION
FBIS, a service of common concern, monitors the foreign public
information media, selects and translates information responsive to
collection requirements, and disseminates processed information to all
interested components of the U.S. Government.
INFORMATION HANDLING
FBIS field installations are located in Florida, Africa, Europe, the
Middle East, Latin America, and the Far East to monitor foreign radio and
television broadcasts, press agency transmissions, and publications for
information primarily supporting current research and analysis. A list
of countries covered by each field bureau is attached.
Selected items are wirefiled as unclassified messages to FBIS
Headquarters (Washington) and official users overseas, including
embassies, consulates, and major military commands. Examples of over 350
continuing wirefile services to consumers overseas are: "worldwide
terrorist activities," "all processed items on El Salvador," and "Soviet
leader speeches on disarmament." Special temporary wirefile services can
b'e arranged for field consumers during periods of high interest in a
particular foreign area or event.
The most significant material received in FBIS Headquarters is
immediately disseminated to major U.S. Government consumers via the FBIS
Wire Service printer. The FBIS Wire Service also relays selectively to
U.S. missions and negotiating delegations abroad analyses of communist
media relating to specific topics or events.
The bulk of field-monitored material received in FBIS Headquarters
is published within 1 to 2 days in the 8 regional volumes of the FBIS
DAILY REPORT issued 5 days per week: China, Eastern Europe, Soviet
Union, Asia and Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Latin America, Western
Europe, and South Asia.
Video selection lists, describing selected video portions of
monitored foreign television, are wirefiled to interested customers or
are available through regular liaison channels. The videotapes also may
be ordered for viewing through the same liaison channels.
FBIS Headquarters has foreign document officers who regularly
receive and scan some 6,000 foreign newspapers, periodicals, and other
publications for material of interest to the U.S. Government. Most of
the information identified as significant by the foreign documents
officers is sent for translation to independent contractors managed by
the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), a component of FBIS.
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Translated material appears in 54 regional and topical serial
reports and ad hoc issuances published by JPRS and disseminated gratis to
interested departments and agencies of the U.S. Government. A
bibliography of these serial publications is available on request.
Certain types of information derived from media monitoring but not
self-evident from selected texts or summaries--information, for example,
on patterns of emphasis, thematic trends, omissions, and audience
targeting--is included in FBIS weekly and ad hoc analytic publications.
This analysis focuses on national and international political
developments relating to the Soviet Union, European communist countries,
China and the Asian communist countries, Middle Eastern countries, and
Cuba and Central America, as reflected in the content and behavior of
these countries' broadcast and printed media.
REQUESTS FOR SERVICES/PRODUCTS
Routine requests for FBIS publications should be made by letter or
message to the Chief, Liaison and Requirements Branch, FBIS, through the
following channels:
DoD : DIA/RTS-2C
State Department: INR/IC
USIA : PGMJRL Dissemination
Requests for wirefile material and services may be levied through the
aforementioned channels or directly on FBIS Washington. Urgent requests
for field-monitored material may also be levied on any FBIS field bureau
by wire or on FBIS Washington (unclassified router: RUTLAAB/FBIS
Washington D.C.).
In referring to field-monitored items, use the letter-number
combination (Example: LD 131424 Moscow Domestic Service in Russip 1100
GMT 13 May 85).
BUREAU COVERAGE AREAS
The following breakdown of coverage responsibilities may assist
official users in levying requests on FBIS field bureaus.
Abidjan Bureau
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Swaziland Bureau
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Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde,
Central African Republic, Chad, Congo,
Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon,
Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania,
Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Togo, Zaire.
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho,
Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South
Africa, Senegal, Swaziland, USSR,
United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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Administrative Staff
Liaison/Requirements
Field Bureaus
Analysis Group
Engineering Support Group
Automation
Technical Broadcast Data
Translation Assistance
Key Building
Headquarters
Translation Index (CTS)
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1 September 1986
FOREIGN BROADCAST
INFORMATION
SERVICE
212 Key Bldg.
P.O. Box 2604, Wash., D.C. 20013
RUTLAAA/FBIS WASHINGTON DC
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) collects,
disseminates, and analyzes selected foreign broadcasts and
press information. Radio, television, press agency and the
more timely newspaper materials are monitored In the field.
The selected translations are transmitted by radioteletype to
U.S. Government consumers throughout the world as well as
to FBIS Headquarters. These materials are further selected
and processed via the 24-hour FBIS Wire Service and printed
Daily Reports. Foreign publications are, for the most part,
screened and translated in Washington. Selected material is
published In Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) area
and worldwide reports. Selected topics are reported in For-
eign Press Notes. The content of Soviet, Chinese, and other
media is systematically analyzed, with Headquarters main-
taining research files and publishing the weekly TRENDS.
Media content is also analyzed in Special Memoranda and
other ad hoc publications. Headquarters also collects techni-
cal data on foreign broadcasting.
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DAILY REPORT
AND AREA RESPONSIBILITIES
AREA & Worldwide Reports
Foreign Language Specialists
ANALYSIS
Africa
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Asia
Indochina, Korea
Eastern Europe
Latin America
Middle East
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USSR
Political/Military
USSR
Economic
Foreign Affairs
Internal
Western Europe
Science & Technology
Research Support
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FBIS ABIDJAN BUREAU
The FBIS Abidjan Bureau
1 September 1986
The bureau covers select radios and newspapers of more than 20
countries of West and Central Africa, from Mauritania to Zaire. The
bureau also monitors press agencies from France, Nigeria, and Zaire, and
the Pan-African News Agency. The bureau operates two shifts per day
throughout the week 0600-2230.
Bureau communications are linked via microwave to the satellite
communications system utilized by the U.S. Embassy. Telex serves as a
backup system.
Select material from a bureau file averaging 220,000 words per month
is supplied to the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan as well as other U.S. missions
within its coverage area.
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FBIS AUSTRIAN BUREAU
1September 1986
The FBIS Austrian Bureau operates as part of the official American
mission in Vienna. It monitors and translates radio broadcasts from
Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Live or taped radio
broadcasts from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia, as well
as the audio portion of selected Czechoslovak and Hungarian TV newscasts
and domestic transmissions of the Yugoslav press agency TANJUG are
relayed to London for processing. Austrian Bureau also provides video
coverage of Belgrade, Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, and Vienna TV
programs. In addition, the bureau also covers Italian, Albanian,
Bulgarian, and Romanian press agencies and the French AFP news agency's
European output. More than half of the bureau's effort is devoted to
monitoring the press of Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East
Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia.
From the bureau's monitoring, approximately 700,000 publishable
words monthly are teletyped to FBIS Headquarters, with portions of its
file going to U.S. Government consumers within its coverage area, and
selected FBIS-monitored items are sent to embassy officers by courier,
each day. During the Vienna sessions of the MBFR talks and other such
international conferences, the bureau provides local support on behalf of
FBIS to the U.S. delegation.
Communications circuitry includes a full duplex, full period
teletype dedicated channel that is part of a State Department circuit
between Vienna and Washington, D.C. Two commercially leased
voice-quality circuits to London provide the main teletype back* Telex
is an additional backup. The bureau is open from 0730 to 2300 local time
(0630-2200 GMT) Monday through Friday and from 1430 to 2300 (1330-2200
GMT) on weekends and holidays. (While Austria is on summer time there is
a two-hour difference between local time and GMT.)
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FBIS BANGKOK BUREAU
The FBIS Bangkok Bureau.
1 September 1986
is responsible for coverage of
Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, Brunei, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia,
Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand and
shares responsibility for coverage of New Zealand, the Philippines, and
Vietnam. It also covers Soviet and PRC broadcasts to countries in South
and Southeast Asia. The bureau's monitors--both local and third country
nationals--exploit radio and TV broadcasts, press agency transmissions,
and publications in 14 languages.
From the combined broadcast, TV, press transmission, and newspaper
coverage, the bureau files about 700,000 publishable words per month.
The American Embassy receives virtually the entire bureau file on
Southeast Asia, and the bureau's product is also distributed to various
U.S. and Thai government agencies in Thailand.
Communications are via the Bangkok Embassy satellite communication
system and via an embassy commercial satellite circuit. A backup circuit
is provided through a commercial Telex terminal located in the bureau
wireroom.
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FBIS JORDAN BUREAU
1 September 1986
The Jordan Bureau was established within the U.S. Embassy in Amman
in 19754
Normal operating hours for the bureau are from
0700 to midnight local time daily.
The bureau's primary mission is to monitor radio and television
broadcasts, press agency transmissions, and newspapers from Syria, Iraq,
and Jordan. In addition, it also has coverage responsibility for the
Sudan News Agency, the Voice of the PLO radio broadcasting from Baghdad,
Israeli broadcasts in Arabic and Paris Radio Monte Carlo's Arabic
service. Jordan Bureau assists Nicosia Bureau with coverage of Egypt as
work load and reception factors require. All the bureau's coverage is
closely coordinated with Nicosia, Gulf, and London bureaus, which have
responsibility for the remaining Arab countries, and with Tel Aviv Bureau
for coverage of the Israeli media.
The bureau produces an average of 200,000-250,000 words of
publishable copy monthly. Many items are sent by teletype to American
diplomatic missions and military commands in the Middle East. The bureau
works closely with the American Embassy Amman in meeting ad hoc
requirements and keeping embassy officers informed of important
developments in the area.
Jordan Bureau's primary communications link is via the embassy
satellite circuit. A commercial Telex system is available as an
alternative means of communication.
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FBIS KEY WEST BUREAU
1 September 1986
The Key West Bureau,
is located in Truman Annex of the U.S. Naval Air Station in
Key West, Florida. This is the southernmost point in the continental
United States, lying some 80 miles from Havana and about 160 miles
southwest of Miami. The bureau currently has a complement of
The bureau operates 0600-2330 Monday through Friday and shorter
hours on Saturdays. Cuban mediumwave domestic radio broadcasts and
Havana television transmissions are the prime targets. The bureau
videotapes all special telecasts of Fidel Castro and other leaders,
military parades, interviews of foreign officials, and special Cuban TV
information programs. In addition, selected programs from the Dominican
Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Mexico, Grenada, and Belize are
monitored. The bureau exploits English-language newspapers from the
Caribbean area, the Bahamas, Guyana, and Belize. The bureau also zovers
the press transmissions of the CARIBBEAN NEWS AGENCY from Barbados and
the Mexican NOTIMEX agency.
From this coverage some 140,000 publishable words a month are
wirefiled to FBIS Headquarters and many lateral recipients, including
U.S. Government offices in Miami, U.S. missions in Latin America, and
Defense Department components in the Washington area. Videotapes of
selected Havana TV material are mailed to Washington daily.
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FBIS LONDON BUREAU
1 September 1986
The London Bureau is colocated with the BBC Monitoring Service
The bureau's mission is to select, edit, and transmit monitored
material from Soviet, East and West European, and Arabic media, including
television programs received via a 2-meter dish satellite antenna. The
bureau monitors Soviet facsimile transmissions, providing advance or
same-day coverage of the major Soviet newspapers, utilizing a 10-meter
dish.
Working around the clock, FBIS editors file about 3 million words a
month to Washington and lateral consumers. The bureau communications
center--which has Mode I and Mode V AUTODIN terminals, a Telex facility,
and various other teletype circuits?also provides backup communications
for several FBIS bureaus.
A Press Monitoring Unit (PMU)
covers about 150
publications--Soviet, French (European and North African), Arabic,
Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, British, Norwegian, Swedish,
Finnish, Dutch, and Danish--producing about 1 million words per month
(included in the above total).
In support of the FBIS propaganda analysis effort, London Bureau
compiles comprehensive Soviet commentary lists based on Moscow domestic
and international service broadcasts.
Under the administration of London Bureau,
coordinates the selection and processing of West German radio and press
material as well as East German ralio and TV. Also under the
administration of London Bureau is
This unit monitors
broadcasts from Afghanistan, Iran, and Soviet Central Asia and relays
them by phone line to London Bureau.
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FBIS NICOSIA BUREAU
1September 1986
Nicosia Bureau opened on 17 August 1975, approximately 1 year after
the former Mediterranean Bureau at Karavas, on the north coast of Cynrus
was abandoned when Turkish forces landed nearby.
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The bureau's main coverage area includes Egypt, Lebanon, Libya,
Greece, and Cyprus itself. Clandestine radios targeted on Lebanon and
Iran, as well as the Turkish press, are also covered. Coverage of Middle
Eastern Arabic transmitters is closely coordinated. In addition the
bureau can assist Tel Aviv Bureau with Hebrew coverage in times of
crisis. Moreover, the bureau monitors Paris AFP transmissions for news
on the Middle East, Europe, and the Soviet Union. The bureau operates
from 0700 to 0200 daily.
Close contact is maintained with the American Embassy, Nicosia,
which is kept informed of current developments in Cyprus and on the
international front. The bureau files an average 482,000 publishable
words monthly; over half of this is from Arab press agencies and radios.
The bureau's primary communications circuit is linked to the embassy
satellite communications system. The bureau also has a Telex terminal
which serves as backup. For prolonged outages, the bureau can call up a
leased commercial duplex 75 baud teletype circuit to London Bureau.
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FBIS OKINAWA BUREAU
1September1986
FBIS Okinawa Bureau is located , on the
west-central side of the island, where it has been since its
establishment in 1949. The bureau is part of Headquarters, U.S. Forces
Japan, which is located at Yokota Air Base. It receives administrative
and logistical support from Air Force and Marine Corps elements on
Okinawa.
The bureau is charged with monitoring open broadcast and published
media of a large portion of the Western Pacific for material of interest
to the U.S. Government. Its primary target is the People's Republic of
China, and it currently monitors six provincial and municipal mainland
radios, six provincial newspapers, Beijing domestic and international
broadcasts, and the English and Chinese transmissions of the Chinese news
agency XINHUA. The bureau also monitors satellite television
transmissions from the USSR and China.
Coverage responsibility includes Japan, Mongolia, Taiwan, Vietnam,
and Moscow broadcasts to China, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, and Japan.
Okinawa shares Vietnamese coverage with FBIS Bangkok Bureau. Much of the
bureau's extensive Tokyo and Okinawa television, radio, and press file is
distributed to U.S. elements on Okinawa. The bureau also has
Korean-language capability. Radiophoto transmissions of the Vietnam News
Agency and the (North) Korean Central News Agency are also monitored
daily.
The bureau operates around the clock every day of the year,
monitoring daily more than 42 scheduled hours of radio and television
broadcasts and radioteletype and radiophoto transmissions. It also
regularly scrutinizes 26 newspapers from its coverage area. In all, it
exploits material in 6 languages from some 90 services. From this
coverage, approximately 1 million words monthly are teletyped to FBIS
Headquarters. The bureau regularly services over 70 lateral consumers in
the field, such as U.S. diplomatic missions and military commands,
largely in the Pacific and Far East. It maintains contact with major
commands on Okinawa to pass on alerts on major developments and to
receive requests.
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With its support buildings and antenna field, the bureau occupies
just over 30 acres of land. The operations building has an area of 9,575
square feet. Support structures include two storage buildings, a shop,
and storage/generator and transformer buildings. Primary communications
circuitry is connected to Guam ASC. A landline via Torii Station serves
as a backup link for the Mode I. A full-duplex Mode V circuit to Yokota
ASC, Japan, also serves as a backup system.
Staff and TCN personnel and their families are housed in a 27-acre
reserved area at Kadena Airbase, 9 miles south of the bureau. The area
contains 55 housing units, a motor pool, and a recreation area.
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FBIS PANAMA BUREAU
The Panama Bureau is located
1 September 1986
near the Pacific end
of the Panama Canal.
The bureau operates from 0700 to 2400 local time, 7 days a week. It
monitors daily 22 hours of selected radio broadcasts from Cuba, Central
America, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama. Selected television
broadcasts from Panama and Central America are also covered. In
addition, the bureau monitors a total of 103 hours daily of radio
teletype transmissions (mostly Spanish), including all major foreign
press agencies covering Latin America as well as Cuba's PRENSA LATINA and
the French news agency AFP. The bureau's publications monitoring program
involves 35 newspapers from Central and South America and Mexico,
including 7 from Panama.
Using five receive only satellite earth terminals (ROSET's), the
bureau monitors Latin American television, radio, and radioteletype
transmissions relayed via satellite. Significant satellite sources are
continually being identified using state-of-the-art technology, and the
bureau's area of responsibility and production figures have shown a
steady upward growth as those sources have been added to regular coverage.
The bureau operates three leased-line circuits to Central America
which allow the live tuning of remote receivers in Managua, Nicaragua;
San Salvador, El Salvador; Guatemala City, Guatemala; and Tegucigalpa,
Honduras. These circuits provide nearly 10 1/2 hours of scheduled
coverage daily, plus the ability to handle live coverage of events in
these capitals as necessary.
From this coverage an average of 530,000 publishable words are
teletyped monthly to FBIS Headquarters, to U.S. military and civilian
organizations in the Canal Area, and to some 45 other military commands,
U.S. Government agencies, and embassies in Latin America and United
States. The bureau files processed material over a Mode V AUTODIN
circuit, with Telex used as backup.
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FBIS PARAGUAY BUREAU
1September1986
Paraguay Bureau is located in Asuncion. The bureau has a personnel
complement of
Operating hours are 0700 to 2400
Monday through Saturday and 1530 to 2400 on Sunday.
The bureau mission is directed toward Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. The bureau monitors 24 hours daily
of radio broadcasts, including Moscow and Beijing Spanish beams to Latin
America. The radioteletype transmissions of three Argentine news
agencies, EYE, and AFP are routinely covered as well as some 40
publications from target countries. Special interest programs from an
Argentine and two Paraguayan television stations are videotaped.
In May 1986 the bureau installed an Associate ROSET satellite
antenna on the embassy grounds. The bureau's main responsibility using
this antenna will be to cover Brazilian television, radio, and press
agencies. It will be able also in the event of a crisis to cover Chile
and Peru with the ROSET.
Some 300,000 words of publishable copy are filed monthly. Regular
lateral consumers of the bureau file include the U.S. military commands
in the Atlantic and Pacific and all U.S. embassies in its coverage area.
The bureau operations building is located in the embassy compound to
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FBIS SEOUL BUREAU
1 September 1986
FBIS Seoul Bureau is located on the third floor of the American
Embassy in the center of Seoul, Republic of Korea.
The bureau is open from 0600 to
0100 daily.
The bureau's primary mission is to monitor radio broadcasts and
press agency transmissions from North and South Korea, as well as
exploiting the South Korean press. The bureau also monitors regional
radios in the northern and northeastern parts of the PRC and exploits the
area press. In addition to two antennas on the roof of the embassy, the
bureau uses
The bureau files some 600,000 to 700,000 words of publishable
material a month. The bureau's entire Korean file is distributed to
several embassy offices and a number of local military commands.
The bureau's primary communications are via the embassy's satellite
communications system, with a full-time Mode V AUTODIN circuit to the
switching center at Taegu, South Korea, providing the primary backup. A
commercial Telex capability provides additional backup. The bureau also
serves as a Telex relay point for Bangkok and Hong Kong bureaus during
outages of normal communications at those bureaus.
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FBIS SWAZILAND BUREAU
The FBIS Swaziland Bureau occupies
1September1986
Operations began in early 1982, with the first local staff
hired in April of that year and the first copy filed in early May.
The bureau covers the radios and/or newspapers of all countries of
southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi,
Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and
Zimbabwe), as well as press agencies from Angola and South Africa and
South African television. It also covers Moscow Radio casts to the area
as well as the Pan African News Agency and radios sponsored by UNITA and
SWAPO and the ANC. Operations are conducted 12 shifts a week, with day
and evening shifts Monday through Friday and day shifts only on Saturdays
and Sundays.
The bureau's primary communications circuit. runs by telephone cable
to the local Post and Telecommunications office, and then by microwave
from there through the Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa, PTT
offices to the American Embassy in Pretoria, where it enters the
embassy's satellite communications system. Backup communications are
provided by Telex.
Select material from a bureau file averaging 500,000 words per month
is supplied to various U.S. missions in the bureau's coverage area, with
the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria being by far the largest consumer.
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FBIS TEL AVIV BUREAU
The Tel Aviv Bureau is located
1 September 1986
The bureau operates from 0700 to 2330 hours seven
days per week.
The bureau began as an emergency/temporary unit in July 1974 and
became a permanent bureau in March 1975. It inovecLfrom its
embassy annex space to its spacious quarters
October 1985.
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Tel Aviv Bureau's coverage focuses on Israeli media (radio, TV, and
press), Turkish and Turkish Cypriot broadcasts, and Persian broadcasts
from several sources. It also monitors Soviet broadcasts in Hebrew,
Dari, and, occasionally, Turkish. Monthly production averages about
235,000 publishable words.
Locally, the bureau provides the embassy with the Israeli file,
disseminates items filed to the embassy by other FBIS bureaus, and alerts
embassy officers to important area developments. The bureau's file is
also made available to other U.S. missions in the Middle East.
Tel Aviv Bureau currently operates with an antenna array on the roof
and remote monitoring circuits connecting the
ureau to two an enna ields.
The bureau's primary communications link is by microwave to the
embassy, where it enters the embassy's satellite system. A commercial
telex circuit is used for backup.
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STAT
STAT
STAT
STAT
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FACT SHEET
ANTWERP ST UNIT
1 September 1986
The Antwerp FBIS SU Unit was established in April 1985 to
supplement and improve FBIS' capability to collect and exploit foreign
language publications from Northern Europe and access commercially
available foreign automated databases. The primary focus of the unit is
on the acquisition and translation of scientific, technical, and economic
open literature in both hard and soft copy form.
The unit contracts with European commercial database firms to
receive online access to databases containing material responsive to
requirements received from FBIS' government consumers. Emphasis is
placed on the identification of new or unique information of a
scientific, technical, or economic nature. The material selected is
either translated by the unit using local contract translators or
forwarded directly to FBIS Headquarters in Washington for processing and
dissemination to consumers.
The other major responsibility of the unit is to seek out new forms
of open-literature publications or publications with limited distribution
not readily available in Washington. Again, the emphasis is on
scientific and technical or economic sources, such as monographs,
industrial trade journals, patents, newsletters, product specifications,
conference reports, and research papers. Material believed to contain
information of interest to FBIS consumers is translated and edited by the
unit. Completed translations as well as other material not translated by
the unit are sent by facsimile or airmail to FBIS Headquarters for
publication and dissemination.
The Antwerp Unit is manned by STAT
Translation support is provided by independent STAT
contractors with the requisite languages and substantive backgrounds.
The independent contractors are recruited, tested, and assigned work by
the unit chief.
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FACT SHEET
MILAN S8T UNIT
1 September 1986
The Milan FBIS SU unit was opened officially in November 1985. Its
mission is to supplement and improve FBIS' capability to exploit foreign
language publications and to access commercially available foreign
automated databases.
The unit's primary area of coverage is Southern and Western Europe,
with emphasis on acquiring and translating scientific, technical and
economic open literature not readily available in Washington. A major
responsibility is to seek out new sources that have not been exploited
previously, such as annual reports, monographs, SO' patent files, trade
journals, newsletters, product specifications, conference reports and
research papers. Material believed to be of interest to FBIS consumers
is translated and edited by the unit, using local independent
contractors. Completed translations as well as other material not
translated by the unit are sent by facsimile or airmail to FBIS
Headquarters for publication and dissemination.
The unit also contracts with European commercial data base firms to
receive online access to data bases containing material responsive to
requirements received from FBIS' government consumers. The material
selected is either translated by the unit or forwarded directly to FBIS
Headquarters in Washington for processing and dissemination to consumers.
The Milan Unit is manned by
Translation support is provided by independent
contractors with the requisite languages and substantive background. The
independent contractors are recruited, tested, and assigned work by the
unit chief.
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FACT SHEET
CONSOLIDATED TRANSLATION SURVEY
1 September 1986
The FBIS-maintained Consolidated Translation Survey (CTS) is an
index of items which have been translated into English from foreign
publications. It is the only systematic means available to the U.S.
Government to ensure that translations done by one agency are not
duplicated by another at a later date, thereby saving the U.S. Government
some $2 million annually in prevented duplications.
The CTS file dates from 1949 and contains more than 2 million
entries. CTS includes records of only unclassified translations.
Documents are indexed by:
1. Author's or editor's name and
2. Source--the transliterated title of the original document.
The CTS product is a bibliographic citation. CTS does not make the
actual translation available to the requester but rather refers the
requester to the office which produced the translation.
CTS can provide printouts by author and by source. Analysts and
researchers can request printouts of the translated articles by a
particular scientist or journalist or from a particular specialized
journal or other publication. Such printouts can serve as an index to
translated materials on a particular subject.
CTS includes data on items translated or in the process of
translation by agencies throughout the U.S. Government, primarily those
of the Intelligence Community. The CTS file contains references to
translations produced by more than 60 U.S. Government organizations;
commercial translating houses; and Australian, British, and Canadian
governmental or quasi-official agencies.
CTS welcomes queries from all U.S. Government departments and
agencies. Government agencies should call CTS:
1. To determine whether an item has been translated.
2. Before beginning to translate.
3. To advise that a translation is in process (CTS enters
"in-process" translations in its files so other agencies
will not need to undertake the same translation).
4. To advise that a translation has been completed.
Agencies can contact CTS by mail both to request a search of the
data base and to inform CTS of the availability of a completed
translation. Correspondence should be sent to Foreign Broadcast
Information Service/CTS, P.O. Box 2604, Washington, D.C. 20013.
Government agencies are also welcome to telephone CTS at 703-351-2567.
To arrange for a translation.
Staff at the same address;
contact Chief, Translation Services
STAT
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FOREIGN
BROADCAST
INFORMATION
SERVICE
FBIS monitors 7 million words daily
from foreign radio, television, and
press broadcasts; files 400,000
words to headquarters and selec-
tively to 500 lateral consumers.
FBIS
Headquarters
24-Hour
Wire Service
In-House
Publications
Joint Publications
Research Service
Classified Foreign
Language Support
? (35,000
Words Daily)
? Daily
Reports
? (Over
50 Regional Serial
? (Approx.
65 Languages)
? Foreign Press Digests Publications on Economic,
? Media Analysis Publications Political, Scientific and
? Broadcast Information Technical Topics)
Publications ? JPRS Field Office in
Hours Publishable
Arlington, Va.
Monitored Words Filed
Daily Daily
o tr,
FBIS Hqs.
(VVashington, D.C.)
Londol
FBIS & BBC)
Antwerp
? FBIS Bureaus/Units
II/Other IABC) ?
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Europe
London
475
81,400
Cologne
9
1,800
Vienna
67
23,600
Mideast, Africa
Nicosia
76
8,650
Tel Aviv
22
6,950
Jordan
67
6,200
Abidjan
88
8,550
Swaziland
53
18,550
Asia
Okinawa
109
39,250
Bangkok
94
22,550
Hong Kong
46
42,150
Seoul
44
21,200
Latin America
Panama
244
17,350
Key West
67
4,700
Paraguay
144
8,400
' Broadcasts, Press Agency Transmissions,
Publications
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58.1
Units
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Director
Deputy Director
Administrative
Staff
Executive and
Planning Staff
Special
Assistant/Career
Development
Liaison and
Requirements
Branch
Production
Group
Joint Publi-
cations Re-
search Service
Near East/
Asia Division
Europe/Latin
America/Africa
Division
Translation
Services
Staff
USSR
Division
S T
Center
Analysis
Group
JUSSR/Europe
Division
.1 China/Third
World Division
Research
Staff
Operations
Group
Daily
Reporting
Division
Wire Services
Staff
Computer
Communications
Center
Publications
Staff
Field Bureaus
Abidjon
Austria
Key West
Panama
Paraguay
Okinawa
Hong Kong
Bangkok
Seoul
Nicosia
Tel Aviv
Jordan
Islamabad
Swaziland
Engineering
Support
Group
Monitoring
Operations
Division
Field
Engineering
Division
Headquarters
Engineering
Division
H Advanced
Development
Division
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FACT SHEET
FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
1 September 1986
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), with some minor
title changes, has monitored foreign media on behalf of the U.S.
Government since 1941. FBIS expanded its mission in 1967 to assume the
translation of foreign publications as a service of common concern to
departments and agencies of the U.S. Government.
FBIS administers both overseas and domestic installations in support
of its mission. Units abroad are staffed by a mix of U.S. and foreign
national nersonnel and generally function as part of a sponsoring
embassy, consulate, or military unit.
The products of FBIS monitoring are made available in several ways':
--Selected materials are wirefiled to U.S. embassies and
military commands worldwide from the foreign field
installations.
--Watch officers functioning round-the-clock in FBIS
Headquarters screen all incoming field teletype information
and disseminate via the FBIS Wire Service priority
selections to a number of official recipients, including
the White House and State Department.
--The bulk of the field-processed material focusing on news
accounts, commentaries, and official speeches and statements
appears in the FBIS DAILY REPORT, published Monday through
Friday in eight geographic volumes--China, Eastern Europe,
Soviet Union, Asia and Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Latin
America, Western Europe, and South Asia. Most of the finished
translations from foreign-language publications in the
political, economic, technical, and scientific fields are
organized into serial reports and ad hoc issuances
published by the Joint Publications Research Service
(JPRS), a domestic facility of FBIS. All reports are
distributed to a wide range of government users; most are
available for public subscription through the National
Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the Department of
Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161.
--Video selection lists, describing selected video
portions of monitored foreign television, are wirefiled
to interested customers and are available through regular
liaison channels. The videotapes also may be ordered
for viewing through the same liaison channels.
Additionally, FBIS analyzes the content and behavior of the
broadcast and printed media of key countries in support of the
government's foreign affairs community, reporting its findings in serial
and ad hoc publications. Analytic observations of immediate interest are
disseminated to major U.S. Government users by means of the FBIS Wire
Service.
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FACT SHEET
London Bureau
RUDOMKD/FBIS LONDON UK
Austria Bureau
RUESFV/FBIS VIENNA AU
Nicosia Bureau
RUQMQF/FBIS NICOSIA CY
Tel Aviv Bureau
RUQMFV/FBIS TEL AVIV IS
Jordan Bureau
RUQMIF/FBIS AMMAN JO
Bangkok Bureau
RUESFG/FBIS BANGKOK TH
Hong Kong Bureau
RUMJI1K/FBIS HONG KONG
Afghanistan, Albania, 1 September 1986
Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada,
China, Comoros, Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland,
France, East Germany, West Germany,
Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel,
Italy, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya,
Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands,
Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,
Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan,
Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania,
Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, USSR
(including TV), United Kingdom
(including TV), Vatican, Yugoslavia.
Albania, Austria (including TV),
Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia
(including TV), France, East Germany,
West Germany, Hungary (including TV),
Italy, Poland, Romania, Switzerland,
USSR, Yugoslavia (including TV).
China, Cyprus, Egypt, France,
Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon,
Libya, Turkey, USSR, United
Kingdom.
Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, USSR,
United Kingdom.
Bahrain, France, Iraq, Israel,
Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Sudan, Syria.,
Yemen (YAR).
Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Burma,
Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia,
Hong Kong, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal,
Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, USSR, United Kingdom, Vietnam.
China (including TV), Hong Kong,
New Zealand, Philippines.
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Okinawa Bureau
RUHJFBA/FBIS OKINAWA JA
Seoul Bureau
RUKOFO/FBIS SEOUL SK
Key West Bureau
RUTWSDF/FBIS KEY WEST FL
Panama Bureau
RUEOGFA/FBIS CHIVA CHIVA PM
Paraguay Bureau
RUFSFB/FBIS ASUNCION PA
Cambodia, China, Japan, Laos,
North Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan,
USSR (including TV), Vietnam.
China, North and South Korea, USSR.
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba
(including TV), Dominican Republic,
Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands,
Netherlands Antilles, Suriname.
Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, France,
West Germany, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain,
Venezuela.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
China', France, Paraguay, Peru, Spain,
USSR, Uruguay.
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DAILY REPORTING DIVISION
1 September 1986
The Daily Reporting Division (DRD), is responsible for the two
primary outlets for the distribution of information--the Wire Service and
the DAILY REPORT. The division also serves as the focal point for
quality control of the field product and trains Information Officers for
field assignments. DRD is organized into the Office of the Chief, the
Wire Services Staff, the Publications Staff, the Reference Staff, and
four geographic branches that prepare the DAILY REPORT.
The 24-hour Wire Service functions as the operations center for
FBIS. Supported by a communications and computer system, its duty
officers screen all incoming traffic from the field, averaging 350,000
words a day, for information of immediate concern to key national
operations centers and other recipients of the Wire Service "ticker."
The Wire Service carries an average of 35,000 words a day. As watch
officers, Wire Service personnel alert major offices to newsbreaks,
oversee and coordinate FBIS field bureau coverage of breaking
developments worldwide, and act as liaison between consumer offices and
FBIS Headquarters and field components during evening and overnight
shifts and on weekends. The Wire Services Staff's Communications Center
provides general communications support to FBIS Headquarters components
and operates the computer system that produces the Wire Service "ticker"
and the FBIS DAILY REPORT.
The DAILY REPORT, published Monday through Friday, is divided into
eight geographic volumes--China, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Asia &
Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Latin America, Western Europe, and South
Asia. Together the eight volumes carry about 335,000 words in 480 pages
each day. They include selected items provided by the area divisions of
Production Group along with material monitored in the FBIS field. They
are printed overnight for distribution the next morning in more than
10,000 copies throughout the government and are available for public
subscription through the National Technical Information Service of the
Department of Commerce. Microfiche versions of the DAILY REPORT are also
available. ?
The Reference Staff provides reference services to Headquarters and
field personnel and handles cable distribution to all Headquarters
components.
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FACT SHEET
JOINT PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE
1 September 1986
Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) is a division of the FBIS
Production Group, functioning as a domestic field office. Guided by
Community requirements, officers in the other four divisions of the Group
scan some 6,000 foreign publications and select relevant material to be
published, which is then sent to JPRS for processing. From 25 to 35
percent of the material JPRS receives is already in English. The rest,
now averaging some 4 million words per month, is sent out for translation
by some 1,100 independent contractors. Based on their knowledge of the
capabilities of each translator, JPRS staff officers assign the work to
an appropriate contractor working in one or more of the more than 50
languages utilized by JPRS. Contractors do their translations at home,
normally receiving their assignments by mail, and are paid by the number
of foreign-language words they translate. When an assignment is
completed and returned to JPRS, it is edited, collated with other
relevant material, prepared for publication, and sent to Printing and
Photography Division for printing.
JPRS publishes 52 serial reports, totaling 300,000 pages annually.
Most reports come in two versions: an FOUO version containing material
covered by copyright restrictions, which is distributed only to U.S.
Government consumers; and an unrestricted version containing material
that is not copyrighted, which is distributed to Goverment consumers and
is also on sale to the public through the National Technical Information
Service of the Department of Commerce. Distribution within the
Government ranges from 60 to 530 copies per report, with an average of
about 188.
All JPRS publications are listed in the "Monthly Catalog of U.S.
Government Publications." Bound copies of most unrestricted JPRS reports
are held in the Current Periodical Reading Room of the Library of
Congress, and photocopies may be obtained from its photoduplication
service. An index to unrestricted JPRS publications is prepared monthly
by the Micro Photo Division of Bell and Howell.
JPRS also offers its translation services to other Government
agencies on a cost-reimbursable basis. Reimbursable work, which is not
normally published, accounts for about 10 percent of JPRS translations.
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FACT SHEET
PRODUCTION GROUP
1 September 1986
The primary mission of Production Group is the exploitation of
foreign publications for information responsive to the requirements of
the Intelligence Community. A secondary mission is to provide
foreign-language support to the Community.
As a service of common concern to the U.S. Government, language
officers in Production Group's four substantive divisions regularly scan
more than 6,000 newspapers and periodicals--in addition to irregularly
published monographs and books--for information on political, economic,
military, sociological, and scientific and technical developments.
Selected material is translated, edited, published, and disseminated
throughout the government and to a lesser extent to the academic and
business communities and the public. To do this, the language officers
possess, in addition to the mastery of one or more of the 60 foreign
languages regularly used, a current awareness of worldwide political,
economic, military, and sociological affairs and a broad knowledge of
state-of-the-art developments in science and technology. Their selection
of information is guided by collection requirements originated both at
the national level and by individual analysts. Three units overseas are
responsible for identifying new media sources and overseeing the work of
a limited number of foreign contract translators on mainly SW topics.
Foreign-language items of significance identified by the substantive
divisions--USSR, Near East/Asia, Europe/Latin America/Africa and the
Science and Technology Center--are sent for translation to independent
contract translators managed by the Joint Publications Research Service
(JPRS), an off-premises component of Production Group. Some 1,300
contract translators on the JPRS rolls, located throughout the United
States, translate the material on a piece-work basis and are paid on a
schedule of rates per thousand words translated. The finished
translations are reviewed, edited, and organized into a series of
publications by the JPRS staff. JPRS also performs translation work for
other government departments and agencies on a cost-reimbursable basis.
Nearly 300,000 pages of unclassified translations in 54 serial reports
and ad hoc issuances are published annually by JPRS. Most of the reports
are available for public sale through the National Technical Information
Service (NTIS) of the Department of Commerce.
The Translation Services Staff (TSS) assists the office of the group
chief in managing the press collection programs, receiving translation
requests, and coordinating the work of the area divisions and JPRS. TSS
includes the Consolidated Translation Survey (CTS), an automated index to
translations available government-wide. With more than 2 million
records, CTS serves as an antiduplication Check which saves the
government some $2 million annually.
Additionally, linguists in the four substantive divisions and the
group's Foreign Language Service Center (FLASC) provide a variety of
foreign-language support services to Intelligence Community components,
including interpretation, translation or transcription of audio tapes,
and translation of classified documents.
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Production Group
Chief
Deputy Chief
Special Projects
Coordinator
Special Projects
Officer
Overseas S&T
Units
Special Assistant
Translation
Services Staff
Foreign
Language
Service Center
Special Assistant/
Modernization
Consolidated
Translation
Survey
Joint Publications
Europe/Latin America/
USSR
Near East/Asia
Science and Techology
Research Service
Africa Division
Division
Division
Center
? Europe/Latin America/
? East Europe Branch
? International/Economic/
? Near East Branch
? Soviet Science and Applied
I Africa Section ? West Europe Branch Military Affairs Branch ? Asia Branch Research Branch
I ? Near East/Asia Section ? Latin America/Africa ? Internal Political Branch ? China Branch ? Competitive and Emerging
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? Publications Section
I Independent I
Contract
Translators
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FACT SHEET
ANALYSIS GROUP
1 September 1986
The Analysis Group (AG) systematically studies the content and
behavior of broadcast and print media of the Soviet Union, China, and
other communist and selected Third World countries, reporting and
interpreting its findings in the weekly TRENDS and in ad hoc Analysis
Reports and Special Memoranda. Analysis Notes, run on the FBIS Wire or
issued in typescript, call attention to developments of immediate
interest.
The focus of FBIS analysis has long been on policy trends in the
communist countries, whose controlled, integrated media lend themselves
to systematic examination for clues to regime attitudes, problems, goals,
and intentions. This focus has been enlarged to address media of Third
World countries, chiefly in the Middle East and Central America.
AG analyzes media behavior, policy statements, and commentary in the
perspective of past statements and in the context of political
developments--identifying new elements, changes in formulations, and in
general any departures from the norm that might point to incipient policy
shifts or political trends. The TRENDS contains articles on such topics
as Soviet-U.S., Sino-U.S., and Sino-Soviet relations, developments in
East Europe, arms control issues, leadership politics in communist
countries, policy trends and international alignments in the Middle East,
and developments relating to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Salvadoran insurgents.
Issues of current interest are examined in greater depth and over longer
time spans in Analysis Reports. Special Memoranda often respond to
requests from Agency offices, the State and Defense Departments, and the
National Security Council.
The TRENDS and most special reports are distributed to government
recipients in some 700 copies. Selected articles from the TRENDS are
wirefiled to U.S. missions abroad and to Washington-area recipients in
advance of the printed version to ensure that they reach these consumers
without delay. Research and analysis support for U.S. embassies, for
U.S. negotiators at international conferences, and for high-level U.S.
officials traveling abroad is also provided by wire or cable.
USSR/Europe and China/Third World divisions comprise six branches
whose analysts maintain close working relationships with counterparts
throughout the intelligence and policy ,communities.
AG's Research Staff develops and maintains central media files used
by analysts throughout the Group in researching the antecedents of
current statements. Research Staff also responds to requests levied
directly by other offices.
The staff's holdings include comprehensive files of the texts of
speeches by top foreign leaders, official government and party
statements, publicized diplomatic communications, and authoritative press
articles covering some 33 countries, as well as statements by 134
nonruling communist parties in 82 countries. Extracts of Soviet and
Chinese authoritative statements addressing key themes and issues are
computerized in Project PASKEY, a program that permits retrieval by
thematic category and keyword. The compuerized theme file of Soviet
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statements dates from October 1964 and of Chinese statements from 1960.
Smaller PASKEY files cover North Korean statements from 1978 and East
European statements since 1985. Other theme files are projected.
Modernization planning looks toward a computer-based system encompassing
PASKEY and other files now maintained in paper.
Volume and audience targeting data on Moscow and Beijing
international radio broadcasts are also maintained in the Research Staff,
developed from listings compiled by FBIS field bureaus.
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FBIS Analysis Group
Chief
Deputy Chief
Special Assistant
Research
Staff
Production
Staff
USSR/Europe
Division
USSR
Domestic
Branch
Soviet
Foreign Policy
Branch
East Europe
Branch
China/ Third World
Division
China
Branch
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Third World
Branch
Middle East
Branch
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OPERATIONS GROUP
1 September 1986
The Office of the Chief, Operations Group directs the activities of
17 FBIS overseas and domestic field installations. Its Headquarters
purview includes the Daily Reporting Division (DRD), which manages the
two primary vehicles for dissemination of the monitored product--the Wire
Service and the DAILY REPORT--and prepares editors for overseas
assignments. The Monitoring Operations Division (MOD) supports the
Chief, Operations Group in the management of field operations. An
Internet Control Center Staff will have operational responsibility for
the Internet satellite communications network when it becomes operational.
MOD coordinates FBIS field bureau collection responsibilities from
radio, television, facsimile, publications, and satellite transmissions.
MOD serves as Operations Group archives for all technical data on these
transmissions and research and advisory staff to the Chief, Operations
Group. It plans and carries out field surveys worldwide where FBIS has
coverage gaps or problems, or is considering new overseas bureaus. MOD
reviews technical data from field bureaus and prepares special reports on
significant developments in radio, television and satellite operations.
The MOD Visual Media Center manages.a satellite antenna in the United
States dedicated to supplying live foreign television to consumers via a
closed circuit television network. The center serves as a central
clearing house for dissemination to U.S. Government consumers of video
selection lists describing significant video portions of monitored
foreign TV and filling orders for these videos. The center also converts
foreign televison to the U.S. NTSC standard and has. capability for
televison editing. It will also handle television and facsimile feeds
fed over the Internet system when that system becomes operational.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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Operations
Group
Office of the
Chief
Internet Control
Center Staff
& Africa
Daily Reporting
Division
FIELD BUREAUS
London Hong Kong
BBC Bangkok
Monitoring
Operations
Division
Seoul
Wire Services
Staff
Managing
Editor
Abidjan Nicosia
Austria Tel Aviv
Key West Jordan
Panama Islamabad
Paraguay Swaziland
Okinawa
Field
Coverage
Branch
? Eastern Europe
? USSR
? Western Europe
? China
? Asia & Pacific
? Middle East
? South Asia
? Latin America
Media Notes
Section
Plans and
Tasking Branch
Computer-
Communications
Center
Television
Branch
Publications
Staff
Reference
Staff
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FBIS
FACT SHEET
1 September 1986
ENGINEERING SUPPORT GROUP
The Engineering Support Group (ESG) was established in September
1985 from two existing components of FBIS, the Engineering Division of
Operations Group and the Systems Development Staff. These became ESG's
Field Engineering Division (FED) and Advanced Development Division (ADD),
respectively, and a third division, the Headquarters Engineering Division
(HED), was formed in 1986. ESG is responsible for overseeing all
technical activities of FBIS to support the work of the Operations,
Production, and Analysis Groups. This includes the planning and
management of automation/modernization programs; staffing, logistical,
and planning support for the technical aspects of FBIS Headquarters
operations; and planning, coordination, logistical, and technical support
for the FBIS field bureaus.
ADD is responsible for the operational planning, coordination, and
implementation of automation/modernization systems for FBIS, providing
support, advice, and assistance to the other three FBIS groups. It is
also responsible for the development and exploitation of technologies for
new FBIS systems. It is currently concentrating its efforts on a
multi-year development and procurement project known as the Automated
FBIS System (AFS), which will enhance the FBIS collection, production,
editorial, and composition functions and speed up the dissemination of
information to its consumers. This includes the automation of FBIS field
bureaus. All of this involves the division in a wide variety of areas,
including computer applications to editorial, composition, and
publications functions; the evaluation and integration of computer
software and hardware; database management; and communications.
FED provides engineering and technical support to the FBIS field
installations. It coordinates the procurement of electronic equipment
for media monitoring, tests and evaluates new monitoring and
communications equipment and systems with potential for FBIS use, and
formulates and reviews plans for technical facilities at the bureaus.
FED also advises Chief/ESG and other group chiefs on engineering
problems, participates in site surveys, and evaluates monitoring
locations. Ongoing FED projects include satellite monitoring (the ROSET
program); the development of a wide-bandwidth communications system which
will link FBIS bureaus and Headquarters in real tine (the INTERNET
program); the design, development, and testing of remote-monitoring
techniques; the acquisition of improved antennas and new recording and
reproduction systems; and new technology for television, facsimile, and
other types of monitoring.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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LIED was formed to support and maintain the technical activities of
FBIS Headquarters operations, foremost of which is AFS. An AFS Branch is
currently being formed to manage AFS operations once the initial phase of
the system goes on line in 1987. This Branch will run the equipment in
the AFS computer room in FBIS Headquarters and ensure that AFS hardware
and software units are able to support round-the-clock FBIS operations.
The Systems Engineering Branch is responsible for the installation and
maintenance of hardware systems in FBIS Headquarters and for engineering
the FBIS move to Reston. The mission of the Software Branch is to direct
systems and software maintenance for FBIS operations, while the Training
Branch is responsible for developing, coordinating, and overseeing
technical training for all FBIS users of new systems generated by FBIS
modernization program.
Contracting Officer
ENGIDEER1DG SUPPORT GROUP
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Special Assistant
Program Evaluation Officer
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Branch
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Branch
Training Branch
Advanced Devoloimient Division
Systems
Filgineer
Uevelopment and
Integration Branch
Requirements and
Analysis Branch
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