LETTER OF INFORMATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Publication Date: December 27, 1966
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Bureau Chiefs
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GENERAL
Letter of Information
27 December 1966
1. African Eureen4ituation: Although there appeared to be no immediate
danger to continuance of theKaduna operation, consideration of a con1;ing2ncy
fallback site for the African Bureau continued as Nigeria's constitutional
crisis remained unresolved, A reception test was being conducted in Abidjan
by another component in this connection. The bureau, despite a reduction in
its Monitorial staff resulting from the exodus of non-Northerners, continued
to produce a file about 85 percent of normal.
Nigerian police have been requested to investigate th disappearance
of African Bureau monitor
The African Bureau, along with personnel of AID, USIS, and the Peace
Corps, was cited in a State Department Superior Horor Award which was presented
to the Aerican C9nsulate in Kaduna for its performance during the May.-Jun:
crisis.
2. Bangkok Bureau: Establishment of the Bangkok -.11?:reau continued as
modification work on the operations site moved toward its conclusior, The
Bureau tested and interviewed potential monitors and teletypists and hired a
local technician. Okinawa Bureau administrative officer Was sent
to Bangkok on TDY to assist in setting 111) administrative procedures in coordi-
nation with the Embassy.
3. Caribbean Bureau: As of 30 November, the main const:uction contract
for the Caribbean Bureau was 23.2 percent completed. The official contract
completion date has been extended from 21 March to 28 May 1967 because of un-
avoidable delays experienced by the contractor. Occupancy of the shop and
storage areas in the auxiliary building is expected by mid-January.
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The wire grid lens antenna contractor has began installation of 7? feeds
and their associated terminations. Bids for a building to house batteries for
FBIS microwave equipment were opened on 22 November. Completion of the micro-.
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h, Hokkaido tureen: Official approval was received from the Army
Security Agency 13 December to locate the new Hokkaido liureau adjacent to
the 12th ASA Field Station at Chitose III. ASA approval was granted with
the stipulations that the FBIS operation must not cause radio interference
for ASh and that location of the operations building and its beverage wave
antenras must be approved by ASA. The Chief, Hokkaido Bureau will negotiate
with the Commander, 12th AS Field Station on the site plan.
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o December on TDY at the Hokkaid n connectioa with a survey of
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Vet Ca.r Truce Broadcast: Saigon Bureau's prompt haldling of the
28 November mlor statement on a Christmas-New Year's truce enabled the FBIS
Wire Service to carry the report only 75 minutes after it vas initially
broadcast by the "Liberation Radio." Western tress cervices did Lot report
the item until nearly five hours later. 50X1
6. Revrt on Ma Flier: An FYI from London. Buren reporting
a Prague radio broadcast of an interview with Lt. Robert V. Woods was carried
on the FBS Wire Service and elicited a request from Naval Intdligence for
more details of the interview. FEIS was later informed that on the basis of
additional details provided by the London Bureau Lieutenant'Wcods' name .res
removed from the Missing in Action List and his next of kin were notified he
was alive.
7. Research and Analysis Services: RFD is conducting a study of North
Korean propaganda since January 196 forDIA in response to that Agency's
request for a review of the material in regard to purpose:, intentions, and
possible North Korean action against South Korean and U.N, forces in South
Korea. In advance of this study, three recent SURVEY articles on North Korean
propaganda were sent to DIA and interested State Department consumers. Major
moves in North Korean foreign end domestic policy were reviewed in Radio
Propaganda Report CD.271,. "North Korean Policy Lines Formalized at Party
Conference and Plenum," which discussed reports delivered at the October con-
ference as well as organizational changes in the party leadership,
In the wake of the fourth CPR atomic test, RPD continued to service
requests for information on Soviet and Chinese statements relating to nuclear
testing. The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, for example, asked for
assistance in locating a Khruschev remark an resumption of nuclear testing,
which was supplied from the War Themes file, and an Agency requestor asked
for details of Peking comment on the four Chinese tests, including the volume
for the first two weeks after each test as well as a beaming breakdown with
particular reference to material broadcast to Japan.
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Alons with continuing questions, on propaganda concerning Vietnam,
RPD serviced queries on such diverse subjects as the beaming of Kirilenko's
1 December speech on Brezhnev's wartime role; information on Moscow's Mandarin
programs; Fidel Castrols attendance record at October Revolution receptions
in Havana; and propaganda indications of Raul Castro's whereabouts in April...
May 1966.
The Austrian Bureau provided RPD with excerpts from speeches by
domestic and foreign pafty delegates to the recent Bulgarian and Hungarian
party congresses concerning the CPR and world party conference issue, These
passages, along with the Bureau's tabulation of the parties' attitudes on
these problems as expressed at the Bulgarian congress, were valuable in fottiu-
lating a lineup of the world parties at the two congresses on the conferem::
issue, and in pointing up certain shifts of position. The Dureau's material
is reflected in the Bloc Relations section of the 8 December Survey.
8. Reports and Supplements) Under Secretary of State Katzenhach expresli
his appreciation to FBIS and OCR/FDD for their efforts in compiling the weekly
Special Memorandum, "Foreign Radio and Press Reportage and Comment on Mock
War Crimes of U,S. Leaders." Mr. Katzenbach described the issuance as a
useful compilation." The Chief of an Agency component utilizing the publi-
cation described it as a "most valuable resource in our efforts to counteract
this activity." The fifth weekly issue, dated 14 December, contained some
31,000 words Ti-ween 12 and 16 percent of the material is being supplied
by FDD.
Seven supplements amounting to 393 pages were produced by
Daily Report Branch during the past month to handle the voluminous
from the Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Albanian party congresses,
the USSR/EU
materials
The Daily Report in December was publishing an average of nine pages
a day of Communist Chinese material monitored by the BBC's Hong Kong operation
and transmitted to FBI' headquarters from the American Consulate in Hong Kongi
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9. Lateral Services: Increasing consumer interest in program summaries
was exemplified during November by a number of requests leviedon field bureaus
USIS Rawalpindi requested regular mailing from Okinawa Bureau of summaries of
Peking and Moscow in Urdu and Mos-ow in Bengali. West Coast Bureau supplied
for an Agency coMponent a two-week sample of Peking broadcasts in Russian.
East Coast Bureau began supplying the Office of the Special Assistant for
Counterinsurgency and Special Activities at the Pentagon program summaries
of the weekly Havana broadcast, "Guerrillas." An Agency component in Saigon
described as "very valuable" Moscow and Peking Vietnamese summaries supplied
by the Okinawa Bureau. 50X1
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The Panama Bureau initiated wire service to the American Embassy
in La Paz, Bolivia, while the Caribbean Bureau began supplying a copy of
its own file plus material received from other bureaus to the 27th District
OSI, Ramey Air Force Base.
Among special services during November, the Key West Bureau forwardo&
to OCR/Graphics Cuban television newsreel shots of bomb damage allegedly
caused by a "pirate" air raid on a Cuban chemical plant. Tho German Buresv\
made special arrangements for coverage of the Intervision relay of the
parade held 7 November in Moscow; 70 still photos were sent to Headquarters,
Frankfurt also provided flash telephone service to a USAREUR intelligence
component on the crash of a Pan American plane: in East Berlin 15 November;
inclnding the first indication of the actual location of the crash as repceei,ee
by ADN, Mediterranean Bureau responded to a request from the American EMbausy
in Teheran for a report on the clandestine Radio Peyk'e Iran's treatment of
the Shah over a two;-week period. The bureau also wirefiled material on the
crisis between the. Syrian Government and the Iraq Petroleum Co. to the Ameriee.
Embassy in Damascus. Items attacking the Jordanian regime were sent to WITJA.
U.S. embassies in the Near East by Medburo at the request of the American
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10. Use of FBIS Material: Twenty-five cables sent to the State Depeat-
ment in November by the U.S. Embassy in Saigon referred to or were based on
FBIS monitoring. A summary of a Panamanian Rational Assembly debate broadcast
by the Panamanian radios was requested by U.S. Ambassador Adair and utilized
in subsequent Embassy reporting.
11. Briefings and Visits: Military visitors who were given briefings
at headquarters during November included It. Col. V. B. Driscoll, Chief of
the Current Intelligence Desk, Headquarters USAREUR, who commended FBIS
service to USAREUR during the Vltava maneuvers. Lt. Cmar. Manfred Widman,
of STRIKE Command* also briefed at headquarters, affirmed the value to the
command indications center of the FBIS Bulletin, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
U. Alexis Johnson visited the Tokyo Bureau where he was briefed on operations.
The Chief, Austrian Bureau, and the Deputy Chief, Mediterranean
Bureau, attended the semiannual BBC-FBIS Coverage Coo7dination Meeting in -
London. The Chief, Engineering Staff, FBIS visited the Caribbean Bureau
early in December.
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FIELD OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING
12. Communications Backlogl: As a result of the diversion of resources
from tape relay centers to the new Autodin System, serious backlogs of routine
traffic handled by the Defense Communications System developed in CONUS. The
delays affected common-user traffic of the Panama and Key West Bureaus, with
some messages delayed as long as nine days. The problem was receiving high-
level attention but was expected to take several weeks to resolve. The
bureaus affected resorted to temporary upgrading of precedence and airmailing
of routine copy as no alternative routing was available. 50X1
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13. Broadc.ast Developments.? In November the Soviet "Radio Station
Peace and Progress," which uses the facilities of Radio Moscow though disavowe'
by the Soviet Government as an official organ, expanded its operations by '
introducing 18-1/2 hours weekly of broadcasts in English and French for Asia.
Africa, and Central America, and by 3-1/2 hours weekly in Portuguese to Africr
The radio hitherto broadcast only 10-1/2 hours weekly in Spanish and Portu-
guese to Latin America. Since the programs are allegedly privately sponsored
by organizations representing Soviet public opinion, they are more outspoket
than Radio Moscow. Coverage has been assumed by BBC.
oOn 12 December it was announced that a new press agency, United Arc'
Press, will begin operations 1 January with moderncommunications equipmento
The fifteen-nation French-speaking Afro-Malagasy organization (OCAM) is
reported to be studying the formation of an OCAM news agency. East Coast
Bureau recently resumed watch of the Paris-Peking NONA circuit; among dis-
patches intercepted were several attributed to an agen^v called "PRENSA
ANDINA," supposedly based in Lima, Peru.
14. The Monitoring Operations Section of FOS was asked to respond tc s
high volume of requests during November, most originating with Organization
components, DIA, and USIA. A DIA representative utilized MOS files to obtain
data on Southeast Asia/S.W. Pacific broadcasting.
ADMINISTRATION
15. Handling of Classified Material Outside FBIS Prezises: Headquarters
components have been reminded that Organizational classified material may not
be removed from official areas and may be transferred from one point to
another only with proper safeguards. Bureau chiefs are urged to review
official security practices established for their area's for handling and
protecting classified material, and to insure that when such material is
delivered or otherwise transferred between bureaus and other U.S. Government
offices in the area, safeguards are taken for the secure handling of this
material. Under no circumstances may classified material t9 taken home by
bureau employees.
16. Revised Policy on Yugoslavia Overflights: The Office of Security
determined recently that no security objection will be imposed on use of
major Western European airlines (such as KIM, SAS, Swiss Air, BOAC, etc.)
which overfly, but do not land in, Yugoslavia for air travel performed by
FBM3Staff employees between Europe and the Near East. The use of such flights
is in addition to the previously restricted use of Pan American Airways non-
stop flights over Yugoslavia. This revised policy does not extend to the
visiting of Yugoslavia or travel within Yugoslavia by FBIS Staff employees.
Yugoslavia continues to be classified as a "Risk-of-Capture Area" for all
Staff employees.
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17. Air France Flights: Personnel are Prohibited from using Air France
when traveling to and from Hong Kong. It is one ofthe few airlines that haa
landing rights in Communist China. In the event of in-flight trouble, Air :
France would be more likely than other airlines to make an emergency landing
on the mainland.
18: Personnel Reports: Inasmuch as the Staff Personnel Report and the
Foreign Personnel Report are no longer classified, bureaus should forward
these to headquarters by unclassified pouch as soon as they are prepared.
It is no longer necessary to hold these reports for attachment to the Bureau
Progress Report.
19. Foreign National Travel: Administrative messages on travel by EWE
.foreign nationals need not be addressed to the Director. These messages
should normally be addressed to the Chief, Administrative Staff.
20. Suggestion and Invention Awards:. Bureaus are encouraged to bring
to the attention of all Staff and alien employees the provisinnT of FB 20-17
on the suggestion and invention awards program.
21. Pen and Ink Changes, FEIS Notice No. 66-15:
a. Please correct the Austrian Bureau mailing address to read:
Official and Personal:
FBIS, American Embassy
A-1091, Vienna, Austria
Personal Mail (Staff Only):
Name
Vienna
Department of State
Washington, D. C. 20521
b. The Bangkok Bureau mailing address should be added:
Mailing Address
American Embassy (niql
APO
San Francisco 96346
22. Training. Chief, Liaison and Requirements
Staff, attended a two-day Defense Intelligence Agency Orientation, Project
HELPFUL. Chief, Field Operations Staff, attended the
Agency's Senior Management Seminar.
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PERSONNEL
Assignment
1. NewImloyees
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Teletypist, Wire Services Branch, Editorial Divisic
Editor, ME, WE, AF, LA Branch, Editorial Division
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Reassigpments
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Editorial Division Mediterranean Bureau
Asst. Chief Engineer Engineer
Mediterranean Bureau African Bureau
Editor Editor
Okinawa Bureau Wire Service Br., Ed, Diva
Cruising Monitor BI Specialist
West Coast Bureau Field Operations Staff
Deputy Chief Chief, Bloc Internal
London Bureau Affairs Branch, RPD
Typist Secretary
Field Opns Staff Executive Staff
Editor Operations Officer
Editorial Division Hokkaido Bureau
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Chief,Saigon Bureau -- Consultation and return to
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Acting Director
Foreign Broadcast Information Service'
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28 November 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR: Bureau Chiefs
SUBJECT: Letter of Information
GENERAL
1. African Pu-eau Situnt,on. The situation in Kaduna was calm during
the firnt part of Neveahe.t., but the continuing confrontation between the
Nigerian. Federal Military Government and Eastern authorities presented the
dsnger of frther outbreaks of violence and possible civil war. African
Buret.: Chief reported that burglaries, robbcs-ies, and other
zrimes appeared on the increase with the breakdown of law and order in
Northern Nigeria, and the Bureau's communications with Lagos remained tenuous.
Planning thus continued for a fallback site should the Kati-ma
operation become untenable, with Ghana and Ivory Coast the most likely
possibilities. The deputy chief of London Bureau, began a
visit 13 November to Accra, Lagos, Kaduna, and Abidjan :tor consultations on
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the spot. Discussions were also held in Washington with Organization
components and State Department, including a meeting with the U.S.
Ambassador to Ghana, Franklin Williams.
2. BunpRok Proje.ct: Local recruitment in Thailand been for the
projected Bangkok Bureau. The American Embassy agreed to provide fiscal,
ne,Jurity, and other administrative support for the Bureau, to be located in
a building leased in east Bangkok. Bureau Chief and Senior
Editor arrived on PCS early in November, along with TDY
engineer Construction work at the operations site began
in mid-November for installation of security bars and other modifications.
The Defense Communications Agency allocated a full duplex 100-wpm circuit
between Bangkok and Saigon, where messages will be relayed over the Saigon-
Washington cable. Installation of a STRATCOM tie-in with the Bureau is to
he completed by late December. Recording and transcribing equipment for
four temporary monitor training positions were airshipped from Feadquarters,
while nine radio receivers and other ancilliary equipment were sent from
Okinawa Bureau. Telet ?e equipment has been sent fro n Headquarters and.
Saigon Bureau..
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SUBJECT: Letter of Informatior, 28 Nom.m'ser 1966
3. Saigon'Sltuationf Viet Cons terrorist incidents increased sharply
in Saigon during October.. A communist recoilless rifle attack on the
Independence Day parade resulted in some shells imPacting in the area of an
FBIS apartment but there was no damage to the quarters. U.S. personnel were
ordered by security authorities to avoid congregating at bus stops due to
the increase in grenaclings.
4. .-Mediterranean Bureau.: On the night of 22 October a bomb exploded
in downtown Kyrenia, causing considerable damage to shop windowa. Kyrenia
Police arrested several Turkish Cypriots for questioning but no Bureau
employees were involved. Generally the situation in Cyprus remained quiet'
in October, with the Bureau's net publishable wordaae--541,000 for the
month?the highest since February 1964.
5. Caribbean Bureen: The Caribbean Bureau launched an intensive local
monitor recruitment campaign, and by tid-NOvember some 41 multilingual
prospects were scheduled for testing. The first locally-recruited monitor
:cas scheduled to enter on duey in late November.
The main construction contract gas 17.3 percent complete at the
Ix:Ginning of November but the project is some three months behind schedule.
The contractor now has crews working seven days a week and has hired additional
personnel in an attempt to expedite the construction.
In Washington, representatives of the Naval Research Laboratory and
the National Security Agency, in discussions with the Chief, Engineering
Staff, FBIS, requested that these organizations be permitted to perform certain
tests utilizing the Wire Grid Lens Antenna and the direction finding facilities
when installation is completed.
The Transportable Monitoring Unit previously used for the temporary
monitoring installation at the Bureau is now 85 percent repacked. Heavy
aireonditioners and heat pumps in the TMU have been replaced with smaller,
more compact units, and VHF communications equipment with lighter
transistorized equipment.
6. Chinese Nuclear Weat: .The West Coast and Okinawa Bureaus'
rapid handling of Peking's 27 October announcement that Communist China had
successfully launched a guided-missile with a nuclear warhead enabled FBIS
to score a clear beat on the major wire services and provide the intelligence
community with the first word on the Chinese breakthrough. A West Coast
Bureau FYI noting that an important item appeared to be upcoming from Peking
sources was promptly carried on the MIS Wire, as was the Bureau's FYI on the
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actual announcement. Okinawa supplied the operative two paragrEphs oontaining
details of the launching minutes later from a spotty NCNA transmission, and
the complete NCNA English text provided by West Coast Bureau van running on
the Wire about the same time the story was first reported by the news agencies.
The Director of our Agency asked that all ISIS personnel involved be
congratulated, stating that as an old newspaperman he particularly appreciated
the excellent performance of the two field bure Wire Services
Branch in handling this important development.
RPD issued a Radio Propaganda Report (CD.270 of 7 November) examining
Peking propaganda on the Chinese nuclear-missile test against the background
of propaganda on the three prior tests and rounding up other conmunist reactions.
Issues of the Trends and Survey prior to the test called attention to Peking
Publicity for the showing on CPR National Day of a documentary film on
previous Chinese nuclear testing. It was pointed out that the :.ant publicity
for such a film showing had preceded the second Chinese test thus offering
propaganda evidence that a new test might be in the offing.
7. Research and Analysis Services: Developments relating to the war
in Vietnam, the President's Asian trip, and the Manila conference were the
focus of questions addressed to RPD from State and Agency offices. The CPR
nuclear-missile test brought numerous inquiries on bloc comment and on past
Chinese statements dealing with nuclear war. USIA, NASA, and the Arms Control
aud Disarmament Agency were provided with Soviet statements and comment on a
wide range of topics, including "export of revolution," space achievements,
the Peace Corps, and Nigerian tribal strife, An Agency component researched
Dm files for studies of Moscow programing in Mandarin and Vietnamese, and
USIA was supplied with information in response to an ineuiry on programing
of Moscow's "Radio Peace and Progress" for Latin American audiences, A
resume of Havana's new weekly "Guerrillas" feature, Viewed in the context of
the general Cuban propaganda pattern, was prepared in response to an Agency
request. An article in the 10 November Survey summed up the nature of
Moscow's recent special broadcasts in Creole to Haiti, in response to a number
of consumer questions about these broadcasts. The Soviet October Revolution
anniversary slogans were analyzed in a Radio Propaganda Report in the
semiannual series on the slogans.
8. Repprts and Supplements: A world reaction report on the Manila
conference and President Johnson's Far East tour was published on 3 November.
The report summary was carried on the FBIS Wire and filed to FBIS Bulletin
recipients.
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Materials related to the Fifth Congress of the Albanian Workers Party
were publiShed as a USWEE baily Report Supplement on 16 November.' Two other
supplements containing material on the congress are also planned. The texts
of two documents and six annexes, disseminated by Hanoi sources and purporting
to substantiate alleged war crimes conmitted in Vietnam by American forces
were published as a Far East Daily Report Supplement on 13 November.
9. S.pecial Services.: The Editorial,Division, in response to a request
from the Office of the Under Secretary of'State, on 17 November published
the first in a weekly series of reports drawing together available radio,
press agency, and newspaper reportage and comment on mock war crimes trials
of U.S. leaders. The most publicized of these.trials, under the aegis of
Bertrand Russell, is tentatively scheduled for next March. The weekly report
includes contributions from the Foreign Documents Division of OCR.
During the tour of world capitals by Ambassador Harriman following
the Manila Conference, FBIS Headquarters refiled to U.S. Embassies in Rome
and Paris, at State DepartMent request, items of interest to the Ambassador.
The FBI was given transcripts and tapes of two voice recordings by
Korean "turncoat" Clarence Adams broadcast by Hanoi radio in 1965. East
Coast Bureau had prepared the tapes from belts forwarded. from Okinawa.
10. Lateral Services: The Okinawa Bureau received a requirement from
the Commander, 7th Fleet, requesting that the Bureau immediately file to
task force units any Peking claims of U.S. air intrusions over CPR territory;
the request noted that FBIS is the primary source for such items.
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handling on a continuing basis of Hanoi and Liberation Radio comment on
pacification. In addition, a request fot additional subscriptions to the
Bureau's "Press and Radio Highlights" by the 7th Air Force at Bien Hoa brought
to 118 the number of copies of the publication distributed daily in the Saigon
area.
- The German Bureau began filing the West German Radio and Press Review
to USIS, Berlin, while DIA's subscription to the Bureau's Weekly Report on the
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East German Press was increased to 43 copies On 28 October the Afri ran Alireau
began sending drop conies o its material to
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summaries by the Panama Bureau for a survey of(Panamaniap broadcasts.
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11, Uses Of FBIS Material: Films supplied to OCR Graphics on the Warsaw
Pact maneuvers evoked the comment by ORR that they provided the most thorough
and complete coverage of the maneuvers available to the intelligence community
thus far, The German Bureau had obtained the films from original videotape
recordings of the Federal Press Information Office in Hanover.
The Legislative Counsel's office informed FBIS it had recently received
several notes of appreciation from congressmen for material supplied by field
bureaus through the L&R Staff containing references to members of Congress.
FBIS support in connection With the President's Far East tour was
commended during a function at Langley attended by members of the task force
and others involved in the special services for the Presidential party.
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12. Briefings and Visits: The Director, FBIS, visited the BBC and the
London Bureau 27 October-1, November in connection with the annual FBIS-;BBC
Coordination Meeting. The Chief, Administrative Staff, FBIS, visited. Saigon,
Okinawa, Tokyo, Hokkaido, and West Coast Bureaus 14 October-22 November for
consultation on administrative problems.
The new visited Headquarters 18 November where he was briefed 50X1
by the Director, FBIS. Several FBIS Headquarters personnel were given a briefing
and tour of the Agency Operations Center, and 14 career trainees were briefed
nn FBIS by Headquarters staff officers. the assistant head of the BBC's East
African Unit at Nairobi, was briefed at Mediterranean 50X1
Bureau, while en route to Civersham. The German Bureau Chief on 26 October
briefed the staff and heads of agencies affiliated with the U.S. Consulate
General at Frankfurt. Two groups of OCI Latin American analysts visited ECB.
(SECRET)
FIELD OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING
13. Hong Kong Copy: The first teletype copy from the BBC monitoring
unit in Hong Kong was received in Headquarters on 1 November. The material,
punched by a locally-hired operator, was virtually error free and provides
additional coverage from CPR regional transmitters. The file is being relayed
to the BBC in London. During the week 14-18 November the Daily Report
published 16,000 words from the Hong Kong file,
14. Trans-Pacific Communications: The Honolulu-Washington leg of the Tokyo
Bravo circuit was converted from radio to cable on 31 October. Outages on the
Saigon-Washington cable were reduced to almost nil during the month, with the
result that no Saigon traffic had to be rerouted via Tokyo.
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SUBJECT: Letter of Information, 28 November 1966
15. BEETALsmItax212pments: The USSR has announced an additional
mediumwave transmitter for broadcasts in Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, and English
on its South Asian beam, covered by the Okinawa Bureau and BBC. Radio
Tirana's new high-powered medivawave transmitter, built with the assistance
of the CPR, was heard during the second week of October relaying Tirana's
international and domestic services.
Radio Tanzania, also assisted by the CPR, began test transmissions
over two new 50-kilowatt transmitters. These transmissions, on Tuesdays
and Thursdays, have thus far consisted of relays of Dar es Salaam in English
and Swahili, covered by the BBC's Nairobi unit..
Radio Moscow announced it was supplying Moscow-originated feature
programs for local Cuban broadcasting stations, although these prograas have
not yet been heard. Since 20 October Hanoi's "Voice of Vietnam" doubled its
Korean-language broadcasts to ROK troops in South Vietnam by adding two
half-hour transmissions to its schedule. The Korean broadcasts are sampled
at Okinawa Bureau.
ADMINISTRATION
16.: Progress Reports: ,Bureaus are frequently including details of
relatively minor importance in the main body of the monthly progress
reports. Provisions of FB 70-3 should be reviewed with the objective of
including a greater amount of this detail in the attachments for appropriate
staff officers.
17. Obsolete Eallipment: Bureaus are urged to review periodically
property records and equipment inventories for possibilities of disposal
or transfer of equipment that no longer meet the requirements of the
bureau. Provisions of FB 45-2, para 9 should be noted in this connection.
18. Correction of FBIS Regulation FB 20=12: Please make the following
change in line 5,. paragraph Id, of FBIS Regulation FB 20-12: Reads: "......
requirements of paragraph 7, FB 20-11 ' " Should read: " requirements
of paragraph 8, FB 20-11...."
19. Fitness Reports: Bureau a should insure that fitness reports which
contain an "outstanding" rating in overall performance are accompanied by a
separate. statement indicating whether action is being taken to recognize the
outstanding performance. Outstanding rePorts which are not accompanied by
such a statement will be returned to the Bureaus.
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SUBJECT: Letter of IafOrmation, 28 Hoverter 1966
20. Payment yeuchersi The disbursement date MUst.be shown on all vouchers
forwarded to Headquarters Accounts Division : However, it is not necessary to
show the disbursement date on copies of payroll Vouchers which are forwarded
to Headquarters Payroll Bianchi
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21.? Regulatory Issuances: the following regulatory issuances were
disseminated: (ADMINISTRATIVE - -INTERNAL USE ONLY)
Notice .NO, Subject. Date
66-15 Bureau Addresses 25 October 1966
66-16 Allotment and Appropriation Number a - 20 October 1966
FY 1967
66-17 Sunday Premium Pay 27 October 1966
66.118 Saturday Duty Roster (Hdqtrs Distribution 1 NoVember 1966
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SUBJECT: Letter of Informatibt, 25 Novenber'1966
EDITORIAL
1., InstrUctionsin'the revised Editorial Handbook are still not being
consistently -applied. Some examples:
a.. Section I, page 7: In excerpts, omission of a single
sentence should be indicated by the notation (sentence omitted),
not by-an ellipsis as in the past.
b. Section IV, page 10:. In describing whether a speech is
live, recorded, or read by announcer, the word "live" or "recorded"
should be the last element of the subslug after the double-dash sign.
Many editors still begin subslugs (recorded speech hO or (live speech
by).
c. Section IV, page '18: Cabinet lists should be tabulated
with offices or'positione on the left' and names on the right.
d. Section t, page 5: Editors are urged to make greater Use
Of the introductory subslug in explaining certain processing aspects
of an item. Explanatory editor's notes which fragment many texts can
often be included within the Subslug. It is better to note at the
beginning that a leader's replies are given in his native tongue
followed by an English translation, rather than break up the text
at various intervala with a notation (Tito replies in Serbo-Croat':
Followed by English translation?ed.)
PEPSONNEt
Assimment
Branch, Editorial Div:
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New Einployees
Typist, Publications
3.
ReassignmentS
From
To
Senior Editor
Senior Editor
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Bangkok Bureau
UI Specialist
Cruising Monitor
Field Opns, Staff
West Coast Bureau
Operations Officer
Chief
OkinaWa Bureau
Bangkok Bureau
Asst, Bien Officer
Deputy Chief
Executive Staff
London Bureau
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3. Reassiements (Cont'd)
.. Separations
5. Awards
From
Chief Engineer
Mediterranean Bur.
Typist, Publ. Br.
Editorial Div.
Watch/Officer
East Coast Bureau
Unit Chief
Editorial. Div.
Admit Officer
.London Bureau
From
. To
Chief Engineer
Okinawa Bureau
Clerk' Typist
Radio Prop. Div.
Watch Officer
Mediterranean Bureau
Senior Editor
Saigon Bureau
Admin Officer
Tokyo Bureau
Deputy.Chief Engineer
West Coaat Bureau (Retired)
Teletypist
East Coast Bureau
- Saigon.Bureau.- Certificate of
Merit
BOG G. SEELY
Director
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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