PROGRESS REPORT FOR FEBRUARY, 1956.

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March 5, 1956
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15 : CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 4SLUKLI Acting Assistant Director for Operation Chief, FBID Progress Report fcn February, 1956. OPERATIC= 5 March 3.956 1. A special report on broadcasting in Moslem lanpages in Central Asia was prepared for MVP as background for a broadcast expulsion preheat. The peper, which a 2arin1Y toaPilord by the BIS but Included an BPS contribution, was warmly received by SR. 2. Following the DD(I)'s favorable decision regarding the future of' the Bakkaido Bureau, a request was initiated for the addition of a foreign national cruising excitor to the Bureau staff to regularise the atntona's cruising aponsibilities end to ampplenent the info:satin' available to the CCM Radio Stations Register. A marendon was also forwarded to the Bureau Chief requesting a survey of certain Chinese regional potential. 3. owing to atritsus anterioratical in the intercept of Weenie comeronicaticess at en omen of the impending stria pine. of the a spot cycle, coordinating checks with London Bureau have been suspended indefinitely. Virtually no Myraris aerial is now being rain& directly at 4. Feria Inane a hoc checks of jamas were carried out during the month for CM. One was in cacti? with a sensitive requires's:it, and another was of particular interest because repudiated erroneous infonation supplied Vim Agency by the in Monitoring Service. 5. land for BIS publications lamed during the month. Many requests were received for entre acpies of the Station and trepan Rotes =porting an the development of Mast Ceram television. Among the new mortars on the reggae nailing List is the Air Feevigation Facilities Drench of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, which doss extensive basic work for the Armed Services. This unit is pebtienlarty interested in location of broadcasting station facilities and offered its senvices where information on exact sites a be required. 50X1 50X1 6. Vest Coast Bursae engineer detailed to the experiasntal 50X1 cruising operation at Sabana Seca, Monte Rico, arrived at San Jean on 19 February and begin work at the Navy Receiving Station the following day. Els reports the station is 34 ants in a swamp and that the an al7PRET - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 . , Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 SECRET has been very cooperative. Nail end wire comnicatitins (clear text) have been establithea, and a supplementary receiver SS reedy for shipment as soon as the shipping address is received. 7. A traffic eta on Okintora's comarniestions diming the month showed a sigtificant improvement over typical service of the past year. An analysis of approtleately 160 messages passel during a 21;ehour period revealed that the overage time gas tely three hours. ? The fastest routine message arrived in k5 minutes and Me fastest priority in 19 minutes; the slowest 12insage required nine hours and 29 minutes. 8. A any realest= based on monitoring of Peking NONA attributed to the New York Tines !Monitoring Service was investigated through the Liaison Wirer, Who determined that the Na York Times does not actually operate a monitoring service. It is understood that the Times' Far East correspondent received the material from the Reuters Too correspondent, who probably bought it from Radio Press. The apparent "scooping" or PBXS in this dispatch appeared to result frau erroneous conversion of dates and times. 9. The German Bureau doubled its recordinga for EEC Of broadcasts free Radio Borelands the Russian Quesi.Clandestine transmitter in East Germany tweeted cm Soviet expatriates in West IGerinaniti This keeps pace with the expansion of the station's outPut from the to two brays Ulla% 10. An ineeiry was received from USIA reading certain Baltic Clandestine broadcasts which allegedly are being originated in Paris studios by eel =identified group and radiated through R17 lasnemitters. As PSID has not heard such broadcasts1 end as DDP to not snoring the activity, SR Division agreed to initiate a query to the PI field for further information. U. Despite assurancee fries OC last month that the bottleneck bail been broken in previaing service to the Fi China base, it has . been unable to conclude arrangements with the Paw for eecure comounication of the F13113 file free Okinawa. The matter is still in suspense. 12. A thorough survey of the pousibility of consolidating the Getman and Austrian Bureaus in Munich, a proposal which held particular advantages for the analytic press scrutiny operation being initiated at the Enauss has emaciated that administrative and technical obstacles to the consolidation far outweigh any benefits it might bring. The original plan to locate Soviet end Satellite scrutiny in Vienna, with Frankfurt handling Fatt denten material, remains in force, at least for the time being. SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15 : CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 J.., 4 SECRET -al 13. A card index by aib,Met of the speedhes at the CloStiParty Congress, prepared by the Radio PropagandaBranchto facilitate research= the policy positions of individual Soviet leaders, was reproduced and made available to OCI, C1R, teIA and throuathe Air Force to Rand Corporation. lie.TheMA important Maio Propaganda report issued awing the month analyzed the greetings to Soviet leaders published on their decennial birthdays as reflecting their relative rankings in the Presidium. Three considerable gapers VOTO premed at the request and for the exelusive benefit of SWF components. 154 The special wire service to Miranda? Johnson in Geneva cautioned throughout February. Wordage for the month averaged just over 1,000 per day. 16. At the request of the WM, 13Thx kroduced in tSay Report Supplement form, Mecoves entire covering of the 20th Party Congress. The compilation, which filled 700 pages and was reproduced. in 1,200 copies included all spathes, se4or and minor, details of the proceeSings, and collateral Soviet comment. 17. Turing: February the Daily Report carried, from 10AA and Pektaildindarin, am 98,550 words on the proceedings at the plenary sessions of the Second national Committee of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference, which met in Peking during the first part of the math. This included texts of the policystates sent by 'reeler Chou Enelai and speeches by high.ranking officials of the Goverment and the people's organisations included in the democratic front. FACILITIES 16. At the end of February the penultimate phase of housing ?Construction at the Okiammilareau was 99 per cent complete. All buildings have undergone final inspection. Exterior utilities are 95 per cent complete. 194 the final phase of housing construction at the Okinawa Burma envisages Imam 3-bedroom single family dwellings. This has been admitted to the PRC for epproval. 20. Aproject of *bout 470,000 for the construction of four 2-fereily duplex units for the Hokkaidotureenet Chitost Air Force Base was subsitted to the PAC. 21. MIDmove to 1717 /I Street, Sap vas empleted as scheduled. Minor alterations remain to be made when workmen are 'availahle. .3. SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 tNL CRET 4-1" 226 Extensive communicationoutages on the land lines between SkinpraBureau and avow' Signal relay caused disruption via this terrier of telephone service for eighteen days and teletype service for slx tws. throusts the outages the VBF radio backup circuit performed excellentlyand provided communication ofbothtelephone - end teletype without perceptible interruption. 23. The Office of Commleatiotm requestedendreceived permission to Up the AP ticker circuit at East COWItturesu in order to provide 'emergency' press service to the .Amey relocation ? center at wenn cost and withmaximum security. The work bas / not yet been accomplished but will be done by 00 technicians. . 24. An inquiryfromKr. Hitchcock of RIC regardingBadtec services revealed that AMR is seeking an extension Of the present- fl-wire circuit in the Pentagon to service it. Ito motivating force peeved to be the good service during the reeent balloon flap. width RIC provided AMR as a favor. ADMIRISTRATIOR 25. Arrangements were coepleted for transferringaradio ? operator fromtheViet Coast Bureau to the Office of CamanicatiOns. This office has now absorbed three excess FBID radio operators. - Negotiations mill continue in hopes that three more at be absorbs. 26. As Of .29 February there were on duty five entered on 50X1 duty and five were transferred and/or separated.. . 27. Fifty-six ?BIS personnel Imre accepted into the Career Service. AUX M. WM= ERC I. Daily Average of Field Baremirreduetion. II. Local iserVideS Rendered by Field Bureaus. II/. Specie.' Requirements Contra. IV. Fessormel Supplement. tri-.?: .t. SECRET i Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15 : CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 r-w Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3- .. SECRET fc5A. LOCAL SERVICES REND BY PLUM BUREAUS East Cmset &wenn . Deily dietribution of the epidemiological bulletin of the World Health Organizatien is made to the Won Id HealthOrganizationend U.S. Depart,- sent of :Health, Washington, and ?SAP, Tokyo. VestCO.1st Bureau All Peking Morse and processed voice coterie', ECM (Pyongyang), Soriet 'regional moterieltnd other press iters dealing with Buren, Haley** and Indochina are filed to:FTC and EighthArmy* Tokyo end the Agency's Chief of Nission, All Peking knee materiel Is sent to the Ryukyus Command. Selected 'Peking OCNA arterial le tent to the 5th Air Forte. ECM material is sent to the Amer:leen :CChem, Seoul. Peking Mandarin prOcessed materiel and ureent materiel from Peking English and Soviet regionale ere tent to the BBC. Weather reports from Soviet regionals ern forwarded to RBIS Tokyo for the Japenete Cabinet Research Chamber. TokyoEureen All prcetseed intercepts are tent to POWs? and 0-2, AFFE. Far Rest Air Force receives neteriel conitored from Peking in.Korean and Japanese) Pyongyang in Japanese, mnd Moscow in Japanese, Screen, and. Mandarin. Fifth Air Force in Koren receives Pyongyang material in Japanese. / Peking materiel in Korean and Pyongyang material in japenese are filed to the Eighth Amend USW, Korea. SUS in Taipei and Hong Kong receives all Peking =tear' in Mitten and Mongolian. Selected asteriel including Lye& and dial releases are furnished Civil IefOrmation end Education Section, U.S. Civil AdministrationsBpi:kris. All intercepts on the 'military and political situation in the Ryukyu* are filed for the . Attention of 0-2, Byukyus Coezand. The Americen Embassy in Tokyo receives all Peking comment on Thailand affair?. Intercepte trot Moscow. (in/ Japeneeep Mandarin, Screen, end Mongolian), Peking (in Japenesej Korresnl Tibetan, Mongolian* and press material in Mandarin)* Taipei (in Korean end Japanese), and Pyongyang (in lowness) at l'urnithed the Japanese Cabinet,ResearchiChasber. The avocet National Police Agency are turniehed with Sae:pales and frequencies of all Japanese language breeds dens from communist trenemittera. Hokkaido:Bureeu All processed intercepts are turniabed MARC, FEA71 end FBIS for Documents Reseerch Section in Tokyo., Paper Division of AFFE at Coop Zama, Far Rest Ccemand Liaison Detachment in Sapporo) and the :British , SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 /MP ewer-2. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 'amid 7.0.40a- iltkaidoBureau cont)( Broa6ceatiitg1COrporetion in Lethal. All intercepts--from Soviet dikhelin are sent to &tenter Intelligente Corps* Region VI, Sapporo. U. Okinswaldureau 11 processed intercepts ere filed to0-21ECIOND, Poyiter Division en&O..2a.arrs, at saprists. All processed materiel fromCommuniat Chinese end North Noreen flatlets it transeitted to intelligence Sectien,FEAF? Tokyo. -Selected items fromNotth Serest radios Grappliticils%glitery metarial recessed from Peking broedenets are tiled to Fifth Air Poreea Bemis Japsn. AlliKoreenmeterial is filed to thaU.S.Edbassy in Seoul. Iht . 2610111 Commend, Mgt of the zightb May in-Seoul is supplied:with Pyongyang end Peking Noreen langtege Intareepts. AX- Viet Bibb materiel dealingsith the Lefton titivation is filed toUSIS and the U.S. legntion in Vientiane. A telected file of Nona materielis trio:matted daily te the American !Shanty 1A Bangkok ond USIS: Phnom Penh. SelectedRyotgyang? Peking, Vietnet-Motcowa Indochina Thelliania! end Mangolteseterial 14 supplied G-2, NStayus Genesee and iftCAR.- Items -0-omen:tins the Ryukyus end political or military developeentain Korea Cemmunist Chin*, Formosa' and Thdoebine ere tett to the 20th Air Perces Oinawa. All summariee and pateetsed copy frpmCcamuniat Chinese broadcast& are !supplied to Composite -Service Unita Okinawa. Par lift Network newscasts emetating from Tokyo ere-chenneled through the Bureau to the For bat NetwerkaOlanewa for Itoop Infor nd mation a, Education Section,Plukyyus Co ndmme. All Csouniet Chinese materiel is filed toOSIS? Seigon_Bureau All processed material (except Viettee press translations) is filed to FRC* Tokyo, and furnifled to the Peliticel end liaison Settler:lief the American Water, OBIS Saigon, Security Section of ININa ProgramSupport Section of USCM end the British Zflossy. Selected materiel As lent to thelleotosic Section of American Embassy, and the Military Aid Advisory Group. Selected materiel coucerning their cress is tent to the U.S. Basely and OSIS? Phnom Penh, Cede-plias end the U.S. Legation, Vientiane, Leon. A eopy Drell ESPOI press translations it sent to the Aflistent Director for Economic Policy, UM. Selected Materiel is tent to the various military Attaches. NediterretranBurseu Middle Etat ftundupti prepared five times weekly frommateriel broadcast by area transmitters end from materiel beamed to the ere by ScmlArt regional:stational ere airmailed to American Etbessies it Beirut, Cairo, Baghdad' Valetta, end Eamescus. Processed items relating toeyprus ere tent to the ColonialiSecretory and the Security Liaison Officer in -2- SECRET . 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 2 eceDrt Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 7. fis4 Nicosia. All processed materiel on Cyprus and the Middle teat? Roundup Scent to theAmericanConsul in Nicosia. All processed materiel on Cyprus is sett to the British Seetion, Liaison Officer in Kyrtnie for the RoyelAirPoree. Transcripts of Athens broadcasts to Cyprus are supplied to the British Liaison Officer for Military Intelligence. Austrianflurean All processed materiel is filed to Ptblic Information Division, USAF Reudquerteres end the 7664th Signal Technical Intelligence Teen, both in Salzburg, end to USIS, Vienna. The daily Austrian press revistis supplied.to the Politics]. Division, M.S. Pansy' nem% the monthly 'Economic 'Report of the Reports snd Statistical Drench, US.. eritions Mission, Vienne; items denting with the VIITU to the Labor endSocial Adminiatration Branch of the Economic Division, 1146. Embassy' Vienna. AU pressnottriel from the daily file of the London and Mediterranean Bureau; is sent to the Spatial Projects Office, USIS in Vienne. Gerson Bureau Allprocessed material is filed to the Office of Pdblic Affairs and the Office of FOlitical Affeirs, Assriean Embassy, Bonn-Mt/hies, end to the 7997th Composite Group, Frankfurt. The weekly-Economic Report is sent to the tommertiel Attache Division and the Feetern Economic Affairs Division, MICCO. The lentheomposite Group receives selected materiel of a technical nature, a weekly-LestGerman DewspaperClippird Report, a weekly Editorial &Thesis Report, end Special Scrutiny Reporte es requested-. A copy of the East !German Newspaper Clipping Report is sent to the AhericenEebessy. All intercepts fromRadio Volga are fent to the Munich stadics of the Voice of America and FBIS0 London, for the RDC. London Surest Daily reviews of USSR, Satellites and rastiOermanbroadceste are delivered to local users in Landon end sett to consumers in Western Europe by Wires intiuding: j B421 IMOD; 042,, Frankfurt; 50X1 sBAPEs Paris; end VOAIRWnich. A 33,000 word *election free:Soviet end Satellite broadcasts iebnItored at London end the Pleditterronson Bureau in try:knitted daily hy wire from Landon to Munith studios of the Voice of Americasend to FIGS German Bureau for the 7997th Composite Groups Frankfurt Military Post. The daily Soviet Roundup is sent to the Ameticinftbssey end the Public Relations Officers USIS, in London. The Inking Preto Review is filed daily to AlbassMtor4Ohnsaa, U.S. representative In the Sine-American negotiations in progress at Geneva. All East German enterill is filed doily to VOA, Munich, VA sett to MS German Bureau for the 7997th CempositelGroup. SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 CONFIDENTIAL 1. ZS17 Average of Field Duren Production, Fear Averts* crountted on burin of 5-day week. FIELD MUD stria 1956 MIS PIMISEED Sint Cast Gent 26,700 'Us& 46 Rokinido 6,780 51 London 75,000 Bo Eaditerrunesn 521,200 314 &Weft 1213 34,203 95 +Saigon 26 6,100* 23* 114 Tokyo 1D,200* 31 19. West Comet 22,500 230 78 Tata 7.22i 250,780 577 *Dacia= Prost NOTY A CONFIDENTIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 -C" ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/15: CIA-RDP83-00586R000300140012-3 (When PilledwIn) tor Panty 3956 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS CONTROL CONTROL NO. REQUESTING OFFICE CONTROL NO. REQUESTING OFFICE DATE RECEIVED ACTION DESK DESCRIPTION DATE DESIRED DATE COMPLETED REMARKS ?a I R-0-55 2i 31. Zir: ? ? kelt . Study a reonolits trot tRT, itiCalls rigt Peking .. 2422-53 20012 15 Doo CM a Osir:O. , 6 flbSast or scr5O 12 3-55 aci Muth t*O. 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