FBIS COVERAGE OF THE MUSLIM WORLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00868R000100060054-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: February 12, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:. Comptroller
FROM:
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
SUBJECT.: FBIS Coverage Of- the Muslim World
l., Attachment A gives a detaile coverage thef Muslim orld 'the
resource requirements, for enhanced the fol
investment of .the necessary funds and positions would lowing coverage gains:
a. Aucenting the staffing of the new Bahrain d exu eau w of
provide for training of new-personnel a P .,
the foreign: national staff . to:Incl ude monitors with have
knowledge of-Soviet vernacua~+ugUaYemen,~t will
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reliable-coverage of North
Gulf states, southern and western Iranian, regional
radios and six Soviet Central.-Asian regional radios.
b. The new effort will include iwaediate establishment
of a temporary unit in Islamabad to-record and feed
broadcasts over international teldenhausUe will
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radio: monitoring unit at the ton o
.have full coverage of the Afghanistan.aandhPakastan-
domestic services,. improved coverage .
and northern Iranian regi-onal and radio rineRussian
of six additional: Soviet temporary recording
and-vernacular-languages. The temp
operation would be replaced as soon as feasible
nt remote .:monitoring station using mod
facilities,.In.,order to place the com ications
link en Islamabad and London under u s Govermnent.
control and broad :the' real-time coverage capability
of .the Islamabad facility.
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ina:terse, factual: format--of major developments in
the Middle East and Southwest Asia as reported by the
radios of the countries concerned.
thus enabling FBIS to-issue a daily roundup--presented..
Libyan and Sudanese radios will be expanded by use of
remote-controlled receivers at an antenna site near
Paphos, Cyprus,. to relay signals to Nicosia Bureau
for real-time processing.
An additional editor will be placed in London.Bureau,
.together . with a foreign national research assistant,
c. FBIS' presently limited coverage capability against
Muslim areas, and to develop and maintain research files
cessing of media output from Muslim countries and Soviet
analysis will be utilized to analyze the output--from
radio and press. sources in Soviet Muslim areas, to pro-
vide substantive guidance for FBIS monitoring and pro-
the Muslim countries will be enhanced to include scan-
ning of 60 additional publications for selection and
translation of material responsive to intelligence
requirements and greater in-depth exploitation of the
150 publications covered at present. -Coverage of the
Soviet Central. Asian vernacular press will be expanded
from 11 to 35 publications.
f. The additional personnel resources devoted to media
e. Coverage at FBIS Headquarters of the publications of
in support of the analytical effort.
the Middle:East/North Africa Daily Report, the components
which will be most affected by the increased flow of
,:material on 'the.. World.
plans being developed in association with ORD and ODP.
for the FY 1982 Program Plan for the Wire Service and.,
expecte in severely the manual processing capa-
bilities of the Daily Report. In order to modernize the
Daily Report's information handling capabilities, FBIS
proposes to Implement this fiscal-year the modernization
again t. Muslim countries and Soviet Central Asia is
e-anti2--ated crease in output from foreign media
sourc attendent to the enhanced collection effort
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2. Attachment 8 details the impact that implementation of the
,proposed Muslim World collection effort would have on the FY 1981
budget.
3. All portions of this document are SECRET.
Attachments:
As Stated
FBIS/E&PS/P0/RA
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0 - Addressee, w/atts.
1 - D/FBIS Chrono, w/atts
I.- E&PS Chrono, w/atts
1 - PO/RA, w/atts
,I-'- FBIS Reg., w/atts
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