MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT -- NOVEMBER 1964

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300030002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 9, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
A. The following were given routine refresher briefings
on FBIS activities by the Bureau Chief, and were
invited to tour the Bureau:
USSOCOM Deputy J-2 Col. Robert E. Harrington
Col. Thomas E. Watson, Jr.
Col. H. T. Marsh
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USARSO G-2 Col. F. E. Van Tassel
Chief, Intel. Section Lt. Col. M.R. Whitworth
Deputy G-2 Lt. Col. J. G. Sisak '
USAIRSO Directorate of Intelligence
Lt. Col. H. W. Deffebach
15th Naval District District Intelligence Office
Capt. Jack W. Clinton.
Lt. Cmd. J. A. Knight
Miss Ruth Rickarby
Panama Canal Company Internal Security Office
Director Mr. Robert Walker
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A. Contracted remodeling of the Operations Building
was completed 15 November. Other internal im-
provements, especially the installation of indi-
vidual monitoring booths, were completed by the
Engineering Staff.
B. The former support office, queried from Washington
about recent demonstrations and developments
related to Canal Zone negotiations, advised its
Headquarters to reL4y on the FBIS Panama Bureau's
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American Embassy Chief Political Section
Mr. Henry Taylor
USIS Chief Mr. Carl Davis.
B. At the request of John W. Fisher, Counselor,
American &nbassy, Tegucigalpa, all monitored
items from Honduras are sent by wire to the
Embassy.
A. Auditors checked Bureau financial records and
expressed satisfaction with methods and controls.
No changes were deemed necessary. .
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Foreign Personnel Report
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Operations Attachment
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 I. Reception: Local atmospherics decreased appreciably
by month-end. A new Vee antenna moderately improved
reception from central South America.
r~ II. Antennas: Vee and Beverage Wave antennas were completed
and the log periodic assembled for mounting. Additional
transformers are needed for Beverage Wave antenna bi-
directional reception. A locally borrowed transformer
is not giving expected results from Central America and
a suitable transformer will be orderr/from Headquarters.
III. Cruising: Eight cruising reports were sent to
twenty-nine news alerts were reported to editors from.
sources not on regular coverage schedules.
1. Power: 95.5 hours due to a cable break at Howard
Air Force Base.
2. Telephone and teletype: 7 hours when the crew
repairing the power cable accidentally cut the
communications lines.
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I. Following is the net publishable wordage filed to Head-
quarters during the months of November, by country of
origin.
Panama 59,530
Peru 39,250
Argentina 26,110
Bolivia 21,610
Colombia 16,090
Costa Rica 10.640
Brazil 10,210
Venezuela 9,130
Honduras 8,300
Ecuador 5,920
Chile 2,580
Uruguay 1,080
Paraguay 770
Nicaragua 700
Mexico 210
Guatemala 100
II. The Bureau maintained special watches in connection with
the overthrow of the Bolivian government, the crisis in
the Brazilian state of Goias, and Panamanian student un-
rest over treaty negotiations with the United States.
III. Air Force Intelligence requested notification in case of
attacks on U. S. Air Force installations anywhere in the
world. The request was prompted by the attack on an
installation in South Vietnam.