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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00442R000100080007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: REPORT

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Section D. Field Organization
There being no precedent to follow in estahlishing a monitoring sere-ice
on any sizeable basis, the FBMSt proceeded on original lines, changing
m;thods and procedures from time to time as experience indicated. Originally,
FCC engineers enisaged the establishment of six listening posts for a start;
to handle broadcasts from Latin . America,. Asiatic
Russia, and the Far East;
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European and Russian shortwa--e broadcasts, as well as some
tranamssions from south and west Africa and Australia;
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transmissions from Euro e, Central, and South America;
STATINTL and Cenral America; specific European, Asiatic, and Latin
America transmissions. To simplify the communications problem,, the TATINTL
STATINTL and listening posts were eliminated in the planning stage and the
STATIN post took on)he added duties.
the original counterpart of the present East Coast Bureau,
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was a stablishe in April 1941. The station was monedto in 25X1A
September 1941 ,rom the time of its inception until April 1 1950 this bureau
functioned as a split operation; engineers and 1 clinicians operated at the
station, while monitors, translators, and editors worked in the Washington
headquarters. Intially, code and t*oice programs were transmitted to this
latter group by couriers 'iii the waxed recordings to headquarters
where they-,ere translated and Turther processed. Later, direct telephone and
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teletype lines were installed from the Am field to headquarters.
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STATINTL III.
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was established in March 1941 at
operation began modestly, concentrating on the recording of Japanese psrerseas
broadcasts. With an augmented staff and equipment, however, monitoring was
expanded to co?Ter Khabarot*sk and se-eral Chinese stations. These early efforts
wsnmzrexor consisted of the recordings of broadcasts which were air expressed
daily to Washington for translation and processing.
STATINTL On October 2 1941 the station was expanded into a complete
monitoring operation , with the arri?ral of .editors aid monitors from STATINTL
Washington, D.C., and an editorial office was established in a farmhouse
some two miles from the engineering station.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Ja
Ypanese-language staff was increased
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from two to fire, as the chief objecti?re of the bureau became the co?Terage
of Japanese and Japanese-contolled transmissions. Morse code operators were
added and the Russian, editorial, and teletype sections were augmented; by
STATINTL Augjts l 1942 the staff numbered ^ Tokyo, Hsingking, Shanghai, Chungking,
Khabaro,rsk, Saigon, Manila, and Singapore were monitored, in Japanese, Chinese,
Russian, or English, as seemed appropriate.
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Bey this time, there was an obvious need for greatly cpanded cor*e:rage
to pro-ride essential material to Government intelligence and information
agencies, particularly OWI in San Francisco.
STATINTL post in was acquired and
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headquarters of FBMS STATINTL
was mo-ect here. During this period the - office was retained ?and
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here a 1 of the Japanese language* shows were handled, since the Nisei Japanese
tauafaaepk had been cleared $ by the Western Defense Gomm-,sand for that area only.
Due to persistent requests from users of the material, the Nisei staff was
STATINTL increased t ~~0~'Wd?te~ibAi~~s~r~'4Q1@A$$~QQ~r
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authorized an office in , where Japanese translators,
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while awaiting clearance, workdd on recordings of Japanese transmissions airmai led
STATINT4aily from - When -tli.ese translators were finally cleared, they were ant
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STATINTIto - or to Washington, and the office way closed. STATINTL
as a monitoring station
STATINTL The office continued in operation u
ntil the end of December 1944,
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and stayed open as an FBMS office during the period of the L
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in order to recei--e and cbli--er each morning to the United States delegation
a roundup of world radio reaction prepared by FBMS in Washington.
With the cessation of hostilities in the acific, Japanese monitoring
was discontinued, and the staff was reduced from approximately
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the transfer of X FBMS from FCC to the 'Jar Department and thence to CIG,there
followed a gradual building up of a staff to meet different co?-erage requirements.
such as Mosco d the Siberian regionals, and Far East and Southwest Pacific
broadcasts. At the same time, it was no longer possible to house FBII3 technicians
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