PROGRESS REPORT FOR JULY 1956

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CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9
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July 15, 2013
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August 10, 1956
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MEMO
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 , -r Assistant Director for Operations Chief, run Progress Report for July 1956 OHRAT/ONS 1. MID special services during July included.: 10 August 1956 a. A supplement to the Daily Report carrying Igyptian President Basies speech in Alexandria announcing Seizure of the Suez Canal Company. This supplement was published on the day following the speech by special arrangement with Printing Services Division and was delivered in time fora special meeting of the IAC. The FBIS B-wire commenced marrying the speech while Wait was still talking( 53 minute/1 after he begun. The speech was monitored byMediter- ranean Bureau, filed priority, and for the most part intercepted" at directly from the Nicosia-London circuit. Lands:int Bureau arranged delivery to the Secrets of Stets, who wag in London. b. A brief report to OCI on clandestine Attlasir Arabic broad- casts appearing to emanate from Southern Pante, for the Director's use in SA NW briefing. d. Continmdwire service to Ambassador Janson in Geneva. The volume of messages was reduced since Geneva negotiations with the Chinese Communists were relatively qufeecentiduring this period. 2. The FB/$ African surveyteemdeparted on 26 July and is nod in Tangier. Communication is esteblithed with the teem through VOA. The BBC informed us that it don not Object to a mmdberof the team visiting Accra, Gold Coast. 3. Arrangements were cosuleted for an PSIS survey of Latin American reception at Son Jose, Costa Rica commenting 2August, plus goons, Quito, and Lima if necessary. Department of State and DD/0 concurrences were secured for each of these points. 4. As an outgrowth of negotiations with Office of Cemmunications, direction finding targets in the USSR, Satellites* and Ccemunitt China Were furnished Tokyo and German Bureaus for referral to OC at these points. Servicewillnecessarilybe intermittent according to OC ability to handle. S Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 50X1 50X1 ???? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 N., I fl _I It 5. PSIS field Bureaus were instructed to sapporrt the Radio Stations Branch, Special Register' OCR, in gathering information on Soviet Bloc amateur radio operations. IBIS activity will be enbject to normal cruising requirements. 6. A request of the Atomic Energy Commission tO install s Bwire terminal in .AEC communications center at 1901 ConatitutionAmenne, NoW. vas epproved. DirectIsm wire service to the AEC should commence in August. 7. A dispetth to the Department of State fromAnbassador Bahian tailed ? attention to 'BIS Radio Propaganda Report RB.8 of 22? May 1956 es thoughte. fUl smaysis of Ehrnetehevis position in the deglorifiestion of Stalin but took issue with-tame or the conclusions it euggested withrespect to the - tieing of the de.etalinisation campaign. An opendediebassy staff mesa- reviewing 'tartans factors in the background for do4telinitstion is under study in Radio Propaganda Branch. 8. A comparison of the Yugoslav radio's reaction to the Pointe riots with its cent on the disturbances in Eastern Germany and CzechnsLovekia in 1953 was prepared at the DWI:6 request. 'DID also issued la typescript review of Soviet propaganda on Iceland in support of a national estimate on Icelandic developments. . 9. During Operation Alert yzis vire service to the CIA Relocation Center averagedBMWwords per day. Items tarried inaluded the Egyptian refection to withdrawal of the Aswan Demoffer; text of the Tit:tail:- Nehru communique following the Brioni talks; Pravda end TAM cement on the Alert; Moscow comment on the PanamaConference and Atwen Dem; the resolution of the Hungarian Communist Party; s 1.3,000-yard report by the Polish Communist Party Secretary; several BUlunin, Ahrushchev, end Nasir speeches; and A 16000*wordeyrankiewicx report to the PolishCommunists. ?man= 10. Construction: e. The final gheee of the Okinawa. betas; construction program under Project DD(I) 158 - 56 is 25% coeplete. b. Rehabilitation of the Okinawa antennas continued. Twelvelof the Mufti= thothice have been repaired. c. The four duplex houses at Cbitose Air Force Ease, Hokkaido, under ProjectDD(I) 168 - 56 were finished and accepted from the contractor. d. At the Mediterranean Bureau, isansoectent of the air circuit. tion system was coopleted, and bench construction in 'connection with monitoring booth modernisation Le 5C5 complete. -2- cFP.PFT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 / , Declassified M Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 ' AEMINISTRATION 11. Monitor Recruiting: a. Saigon Bureau visa instructed to be ready to recruit five or six additional monitors in preparation for expansion of the bureau's coverage. b. The Assistant Chief, Mediterranean Bureau visited Cairo, Thartout,Sairdbip Mottos, Addle Ababa, ant Mears to recruit Arabic "snit-Ora Cualifying in Swahili, Amharic and ether Sant African and Sudanese tongues. One Artbitetwahili Znitor was hired and premising sources of Arabic monitors were established. As a by-product of the trip, broadcast information on Rest African transmitters was obtained. Ore Stateless employee for the AustrianPm:eau vas finally granted an entrance visa by the Austrian ?Government after intercession by the American Embassy in Vienna. IR. Tbe FDIO Career Service Board end panels continued to function successfully. Matters considered included recruitment, assignment, train- ing, evaluation and promotion of staffeMmbers, the establishment of criteria for determining editorial and monitor entrance grades, and the establishment of formal oniwthe-jOb training program for 0Th acereditiza- tion. Study ?, the latter two projects continues. 13. Personnel: a. 'The death of 21 July 19% was noted vita re As a temporary replacement for Wire Service Section, Sditori Rest Coast Bureau. et b Chief East Coast Bureau, on . all members of the PAM staff. Chief 50X1 ing C.lef, 50X1 50X1 50X1 Branen was detailed Act b. One additional Junior Offieer Trainee was placed on editorial duty with MD. A six-month program established for his will include on-the-job training And full duty in the USSR Unit and Wire Service Section of thelnitonfilBramtha field duty at Zest Coast Bureau, and orientation in Radio Propaganda Smut. ? c. During July, five persons entered on duty with TBID, two transferred, and four were separated. Classified on-duty strength on 31 Jttly was SEfl:ET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 %tool Co4r Li git 4 14. In conjunction vith the Office of Communications, a letter was drafted, and signed by the DCI to the Chief, Mediterranean Bureau empress. ins appreciation for the performance of the staff under adverse conditions sad nautical* against unnecessary iroolvement in civil disturbances. Attach:men : I. Ifteld Production Report II. Personnel Supplement III.. Special Requirements ALAN M. WASPIELD SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 CONFIDENTIAL 1. tally Average of flelt Itzreau Production, Jul; 1956. (Avenges cSputed on basis of 5-tlay meek) Austrta Vast Coast German itoklaido Imam Mediterranean Okirutsa Palms Tokyo West goist Total MUMS MONTrORED * . Includes Press Scrutiny itt 3.07+ 25 230 7211 120 20 F/LtD 12,600 25,600 9,100 32,100 29.200 6,140* 9,900* 22195) 210,063 vows A dal.ly aengeof 93,472 fl4e votetiled, to CONFIDENTIAL mats PUBLISHED 9 117 52 46. 39* 60 103 99 71 59 1511 524 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-9 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140007-0 ? (.14 ...... yr flay 1900 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS CONTROL CONTROL NO. 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