MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT -- DECEMBER 1964

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• Publication Date: January 6, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

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@UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CONFIDENTIAL
Memorandum
TO : Chief, FBIS
yRom : Chief, Hokkaido Bureau
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DoctrAlek- /n
SUBJECT: Monthly Progress Retort - Jft?egay.
DATE: 6 January 1965
I. GENERAL
A. There was no further progress to report during the month on the
status of the FBIS request for land from the Japanese Government.
B. Three striked by local employees against Kuma Station were
scheduled for the month of December. The day before the first was
to be held, offidial word was received from the Japanese
Government that thestrikes had all been canceled.
C. The first monthly Hokkaido "country team" meeting was held 29
December in the office of the Commanding Officer, Kuma Station.
Regular participants in these meetings will be: Lt. Col.
William J. Clark, Commanding Officer, Kuma Station; Mr. John
Sylvester* American Consul, Sapporo; Mr. William Lenderking,
Director, American Cultural Center (USIS), Sapporo; Lt. Col.
Charles Youngs, Chief, MAAG-Hokkaido; and the Chief, Hokkaido
Bureau, FBIS. The objective of these monthly meetings will be
to coordinate American activities in Hokkaido. At the first
meeting, Mr. Sylvester gave a briefing on U.SeAdapan relations
nationally and locally* and the Kuma Station 5.,3 gave an
unclassified briefing on Kuma Station operations. The Kuma
Station Civilian Personnel Officer informed the group on
current local labor conditions.
OPERATIONS
A. Monitorial
1. The bureau's weekly coverage decreased 6 hours and 5 minutes
in December.
2. Periodic cruising continued for the Vladivostok Television
-Service audio channel on 56.25 mos, the Vladivostok FM
transmitter on 69.58 Inds, and the Khabarovsk FM transmitter
on 70.50 mcs. Cruising was initiated for the newly
announced Yuzhno-Rakhalinsk Television Service audio channel
on 66.08 mcs. None of these stations was heard in December.
3. In accordance with requests cruising projects 50X1
were carried out for Peking mediumwave broadcasts in Mongol-
ian and to determine pyongyangis Japanese output on 635 kcs.
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Excluded from automatic'
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CONFIDENTIAL
B. Editorial
1. Abstract and wirefile wordage totaled 152,285; the number of
abstracts was 1,444.
2. Teletype outage totaled 26 hours and 5 minutes because of
line trouble at Zama.
?
III. ADMINISTRATION
A. Personnel
1. A decree ermittin editor
girl, was received
Court on ecem er.
2. Driver?Custodian
effective 6 December 1964.
3. Correspondence
candidates
was exchanged
in A
50X1
50X1
to adopt a Japanese
from the Sapporo Family
was promoted to FSL-6 50X1
50X1
7
during the month with monitor
stralia and former Austrian 50X1
Bureau monitor in Canada. 50X1
advised that she was unable to accept a job ofier at
present because of a physical injury. A reply is still
awaited from A letter was also written to the
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong seeking
suitable leads on candidates. No reply has been received
so far.
50X1
Attachments:
1. Classified Personnel Report
2. Foreign Personnel Report
3. Coverage List
CC:
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COVERAGE LIST -- HOKKAIDO BUREAU
as of
31 December 1964
All voicecasts originating in the USSR
Language City
GMT Time
Min
Days Broadcast
Days Covered
Average
Rating Priority
Russian
Anadyr
Birobidzhan
II
It
Blagoveshchensk
IT
IT
It
It
TI
Chita
It
It
Irkutsk I
IT
TI
II
It
II
II
Khabarovsk I
TI
II
II
It
11
TI
TI
II
Krasnoyarsk
TIH
TI
TI
Magadan
TI
TI
TI
TI
II
TI
IT
0515-0535
0300-0330
0355-0400
0900-0930
0900-0945
1000-1020
1145-1200
2100-2110
2125-2140
2230-2245
2320-2335
2345-2400
1000-1030
1300-1315
2245-2300
0025-0035
1100-1120
1200-1220
1200-1300
1320-1335
1400-1420
2250-2300
0025-0045
0115-0130
1055-1100
? 1100-1200
1130-1200
1220-1240
2115-2130
2130-2140
2230-2245
0000-0015
1200-1230
1300-1320
1400-1420
2345-2400
0000-0045
0700-0715
0740-0800
1000-1025
1025-1040
1805-1810
1850-1900
2100-2120
20
30
5
30
45
20
15
10
15
15
15
15
30
15
15
10
20
20
60
15
20
10
20
15
5
60
30
20
15
10
15
15
30
20
20
15
45
15
20
25
15
5
10
20
Not Sun-Sat
Sun
sun
Mon
Not Sun-Mon
Not Sun
Mon-The-Thu
Not Sun
Sat
Not Sat
Not Sun-Sat
sat
Not Sun
Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun
Sun
Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun
Sun
The-Wed-Fri
Not Sun-Mon
Not Sun-Sat
Wed
Mon-Thu-Sat
Not Sun
Tue-Thu
Wed .
Not Sun
Not The-Wed-Sat
Not Sun
The-Thu-Sat
Sun
Not Sun
Mon-The-Fri
Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
sun
The-Wed-Thu
Mon
Not Sun
Mon-Thu-Fri
Not Sun
Not Sun
Not Sun
Not Sun-Sat Poor
Sun Fair
Sun Fair
Mon Fair
Not Sun-Mon Fair
Not Sun Fair
Mon -Tue -Thu Fair
Not Sun Fair
Sat Fair
Not Sat Fair
Not Sun-Sat Fair
Sat Fair
Not Sun Fair
Not Sun-Sat Fair
Not Sun Fair
Sun Poor
Not Sun-Sat Fair
Not Sun Fair
Sun Fair
Tue -Wed-Fri Fair
Not Sun-Mon Fair
Not Sun-Sat Fair
Wed Good
Mon-Thu-Sat Good
Not Sun Good
The-Thu Good
Wed Good
Not Sun Good
Not Tue-Wed -Sat Good
Not Sun Good
The-Thu-Sat Good
Sun Poor
Not Sun Fair
Mon -Tue -Fri Fair
Not Sun-Sat Fair
Not Sun-Sat Poor
Sun Fair
The-Wed-Thu Fair
Mon Fair
Not Sun Fair
Mon-Thu-Fri Fair
Not Sun Good
Not Sun Good
Not Sun Good
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Average
Language City
GMT Time Min Days Broadcast
Days Cevered
Rating Priority
Russian Petropavlovsk-Kam.
0630-0645 15 Not Sun
Not Sun
Good 2
It
0700-0715 15 Wed-Fri
Wed-Fri
Good 3
It II
1030-1045 15 The
Tue
Good 3
It
1850-1900 10 Not Sun
Not Sun
Good 3
It IT
1940-2000 20 Daily
Daily
Good 2
TI Tyumen
1400-1500 60 Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
Poor 2
It Ulan Ude
0030-0040 10 Sun
Sun
Fair 4
It TI
1000-1010 10 Not Sat
Not Sat
Fair 3
tt II
1000-1025 25 Sat
Sat
Fair 2
IT II
1100-1125 25 Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
Fair 2
If II
1200-1215 15 The-Wed-Thu
The-Wed-Thu
Fair 3
TI TI
1200-1210 10 Sun
Sun
Fair 3
TI It
1235-1250 15 Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
Fair 3
It It
2335-2345 10 Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
Fair 4
II Vladivostok I
0150-0200 10 The-Thu
The-Thu
Good 2
TI II
0300-0315 15 Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
Good 3
TI tt
0905-0920 15 Not Sun-Mon
Not Sun-Mon
Good 2
If II
0930-1000 30 Not Sun-Mon-The
Not Sun-Mon-The
Good 2
TI tt
1000-1020 20 Mon
Mon
Good 2
II TI
1100-1110 10 Not Sun-Thu-Sat
Not Sun-Thu-Sat
Good 3
It It
1150-1200 10 Mon-Fri
Mon-Fri
Good 3
TI IT
1220-1225 5 Wed-Fri-Sat
Wed-Fri-Sat
Good 3
IT TI
2115-2130 15 Sun
Sun
Good 3
TI TI
2140-2150 10 Not Sat
Not Sat
Good 3
It II
2320-2340 20 Not Sat
Not Sat
Good 3
TI Yakutsk
0900-0920 20 Not Sun
Not Sun
Fair 2
IT H
0930-0945 15 Not Sun-Mon
Not Sun-Mon
Fair 3
TI 8
1115-1130 15 Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
Poor 3
TI Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
0905-0930 25 Not Sun
Not Sun
Good 2
TI It
1025-1040 15 Not Sun-Sat
Not Sun-Sat
Good 3
II It
1030-1100 30 Sat
Sat
Good 3
TI
2040-2110 30 Not Sun
Not Sun
Good 2
Mandarin Moscow
0515-0545 30 Daily
Daily
Fair 2
It II
0545-0615 30 Daily
Daily
Fair. 2
tt TI
0615-0645 30 Daily
Daily
Fair 2
IT II
0830-0900 30 Daily
Daily
Fair 2
It It
0900-0930 30 Daily
Daily
Fair 2
TI TI
09301000 30 Daily
Daily
Fair 2
TI Ti
1000-1030 30 Daily
Daily
Fair 2
It TI
1030-1100 30 Daily
Daily
Fair 2
Yiddish Birobidzhan
0945-0955 10 Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri
The-Wed-Thu-Fri
Fair 5
Voicecasts originating in the Korean 'Democratic People's Republic
Russian Pyongyang
0800-0900 60 Daily
Mon-Thu
Fair 2
TI TI
0900-1000 60 Daily
Mon-Thu
Fair 4
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Language
City
originating in
GMT Time Min Dazs Broadcast
Days Covered
Average
Rating Priority
Voicecasts
the Mongolian People's Republic
Russian
Ulan Bator I
,
0830L0900 30 Mon-Fri
Mon-Fri
Fair
2
It
11 It II
1040-1110 30 Mon-Fri
Mon-Fri
Fair
4
Mongolian It II I
0600-0615 15 Daily
Daily
Poor
5
tt it It II
0900-0915 15 Daily
Daily
Fair
5
It
II II II
1000-1015 15 Daily
Daily
lair
5
"
It
II It II
ti it II
1200-1215 15 Daily
1415-1430 15 Daily
Daily
Daily
Fair
Fair
5
5
"
II It II
2325-2335 10 Daily
Daily
Fair
5
Radioteletype Press Transmissions originating in the Mongolian People's Republic
Russian(R)Ulan Bator JTV-10 0345-0415 30 Not Sun Not Sun Poor 4
u u u JTV-8 0445-0515 30 Not Sun Not Sun Fair 2
11 " " JTV -9 0545-0615 30 Not Sun Not Sun Good 2
Total broadcast time covered weekly 126 hours and 5 minutes (including 6 hours
of radioteletype)
Total number of broadcasts covered weekly 350 (includes 12 radioteletype
broadcasts)
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CONFIDENTIAL
Chief, FBIS
Chief, Hokkaido Bureau
D teener /fey
Monthly Progress Report -January
I. ;GENERAL
6 January 1965
A,. There was no further progress to report during the month on the
' status of the PHIS request for land from the Japanese Government,
B. Three strdked by local employees against Kuma Station were
scheduled for the month of December. The day before the first was
to be held, official word was received from the Japanese
-Governmen4 that the strikes had all been canceled.
0. The first monthly Hokkaido "ccuntry team" meeting was held 29
December in the office of the Commanding Officer, Kuma Station.
Regular participants in these meetings will be: Lt. Col.
Hiatus 4. Clark, Commanding Officer, KumaStation; Mr. John
Sylvester, American Consul, Sapporo; Mr, William Lenderking, ?
Director, Aterican Oil-tura Center (uSIS), Sapporo; Lt. Col.
Charles lounge, Chief, MAAO-Hokkaido; and the Chief, Hokkaido
Bureau, MIS. The objective of these monthly meetings Will be
to coordinate American activities in Hokkaido. At the first
meeting* Mr. Sylvester gave a briefing on U.S.-Japan relations
nationally and locally, and the Kuta Station S-3 gave an
unclassified briefing on Kum Station operations. The Kuma
Station Civilian Personnel Officer informed the group on
current local labor conditions.
II. OPERATIONS
A. Bonitorial
1. The bureau's weekly coverage decreased 6 hours and 5 minutes
in DeceMber.
2. Periodic cruising continued for the Vladivostok Television
Service audio channel on 56.25 mos, the Vladivostok FM
transmitter on 69.58 mos, and the Khabarovsk FM transmitter
on 70.50 mos. Cruising was initiated for the newly
announood ruzlino7Sakhalinnk Television Service audio channel
on 66.08 nes. None of these stations was heard in December.
3. In accordance with requests crossing projects 50X1
were carried out for Peking mediumwave broadcasts in Mongol?
ian and to determine Pyongyang's Japanese output on 635 kcs.
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CONFIDENTIAC-
B. Editorial
1. Abstract and wirefile wordage totaled 152.285; the number of
abstracta was 1,444.
2. Teletype outage totaled 26 hours and 3 minutes because of
line trouble at Zama.
AftilNISIRATION
A. personnel '50X1
1. A decree nermittinti editor to adopt a Japanese
girl, was received from the Sapporo TamiZy 50X1
Court on 4 Decedber.
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2. Driver-Custodian
effective 6 DeceMber 1964.
was promoted to FSL-6 50X1
50X1
3. Correspondence was exchanged during the month with monitor
raemelates Lin Australia and fOrmer Austrian
Canada. 50X1
in
Bureau monitor 50X1
advised that she was unable to accept a job offer at
present because Seal injury. A regy is still
Awaited from A letter was also written to the 50X1
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong seeking
suitable leads on candidates. RO repLy has been received
so far.
Attachments:
1. taassified Personnel Report
2. Foreign Personnel Report
3. Coverage List
cc:
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