FBIB MATERIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03097A000200050087-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 12, 2008
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: February 18, 1949
• Content Type: MEMO

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February 18, 1949
TO t P - Mr. Allen
THROUGH: 011 - Lloyd Lehrbas
FROM: IM - E. W. Beattie, Jr.
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In requesting that FBIB extend the operation of
the wire service between their Washington office and IBD,
New York, from eight to sixteen hours daily, we are taking
one stop in the process which we hope eventually will produce
a 24-hour..a-day connection between the two shops.
In the past we have been considerably handicapped
by three things which operate to cut down the usefulness of
the FBIB material -- and in this connection I might interpolate
that the FBIB output is extrer,ely valuable both to the Brain news
desk and to other parts of the office. These three things were:
Firstly, shortage of material from certain specific
areas like the Far East and Latin America, which deprived us of
specially angled copy which would be of interest to listeners
in those parts;
Secondly, insufficiency of "coverage" over the
24-hour period, whioh out down our efficiency considerably
in making up newscasts at various time of the day;
Third, slowness of transmission of copy originating
at the monitoring base in .f ngland as compared with the BBC.
By increasing the transmission time to sixteen hours
dai matter which we have discussed with both Colonel White
and of FBIB, we will enable the FBIB
desk to start transmitting material naich earlier in the day,
concentrating at the start on Far Eastern items which will thus
become available to us in the early morning in time for inclusion
in the Far East broadcasts. This, in turn, will relieve the jam
now apt to develop during daylight hours when the European
material is pouring in and at the same time will make it easier
to transmit during the afternoon such material as may be available
from Latin America for use in the evening shows to that area.
It All of course result in considerably greater volume of
material, which will be all to the good. This measure certainly
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will not eliminate the time lag between the BBC's short-lire
transmission inside London and our own trans-Atlantis trans-
mission of materials, but it will help to some extent by
cutting down jamming on the wire.
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