RADIO STATIONS NEAR NVN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01673R000200130006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 23, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
WASHINGTON 20547
SECRET May 23, 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Special PSYOP Group
FROM: USIA, Kent Crane
SUBJECT: Radio Stations Near NVN
Last night we asked our posts in South Vietnam, Cambodia,
Laos, Thailand and the Philippines to survey non-USG radio
assets whose signal might reach NVN. Responses from all
posts are attached for the Committee's review.
comments. A cursory review seems to indicate that the
Philippines and Thailand, and possibly Laos, have radio assets
Our VOA technicians are prepared to elaborate on cabled
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State Dept. review completed
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Memorandum CONFIDENTIAL
Chairman - Special PSYOPS Group
DATE: May 23, 197c.
SUBJECT: Possible Medium-wave Radio Facilities for Expanded
PSYOPS Effort to North Viet Nam
The following medium-wave transmitters in South Viet Ne.:::
would provide coverage of significant parts of North Viet Nam:
Location: Operator:
Power
KW
Freq.
Kc/s
Coverage
Pr:sent
/C'Yc us
Hue Voice of Freedom
200
655
Day & Night
Hue U. S. Army
50
760
Day & Night
Relays VOA
Hue Govt. of RVN
10
720
Day & Night
On !3 _ r
Nha-T rang Govt. of RVN
50
580
Night Only
Saigon Govt. of RVN
100
870
Night Only
On a...
Off air due to damage, can be repaired and placed into operation
if effort warrants it.
** Either nearing completion or already on .air.
The following medium-wave transmitter in Thailand can cover
significant areas of North Viet Nam:
Location: Operator: Power Freq. Coverage ':reser:.,:
KW Kc/s SLatu:
Khon-Kaen Thai Govt. 50 630 Night Only On A::r.
Medium-wave facilities in Laos, Cambodia, and the Philippine
were also examined, but none are available that could provide ac equa
coverage of North Viet Nam due to either insufficient power or the use
of frequencies that would suffer serious interference from othe.,
co-channel stations.
The following information was obtained from the appropriate
Pentagon office this morning regarding military medium-wave facilit ?:
which could be used for an expanded Vietnamese broadcast effor-:
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One 50 KW medium-wave transportable is now on training
exercise at Fort Bragg, with operating unit. This could be withdrawn
from the exercise and moved by air with unit. Estimated 7 to .r0 days
far the move and setting up.
One additional 50 KW medium-wave transportable is now at
Fort Bragg, but is damaged and without an operating unit. No est.-xnate
is available as to the extent of damage, or the time it would take: to
repair. If a high enough priority were set, some sort of operating; unit
could be pulled together from the military.
A 50 KW medium-wave transportable is now engaged in an operation
in connection with Cambodia. Unless its present mission were scrubbed,
this would not be available for the Viet effort.
Airborne transmitters, based upon previous experience, would
have coverage up to a distance of approximately 75 miles (assuming
an altitude of 12, 000 feet), from a point below the aircraft's loci, on,
This might provide some very limited coverage of North Viet Na x.
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