FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00024R000300390015-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 29, 1981
• Content Type: REPORT

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Daily Report Automation
MIDAS, the FBI'S Daily Report and Wire Service automation system, is
running only a few weeks behind schedule. Phase I of the program,
originally scheduled to be operational by 31 March 1982, will provide
for automating the Wire Service, which serves major watch offices. in the
Washington area, and two of the eight volumes of the published Daily
Report; Phase II will complete the system for all eight volumes. Soft-
ware problems, and the late delivery of a device which interfaces the
MIDAS message handling system with the worldwide AUTODIN network, have
pushed the Factory Acceptance Test on Phase I to late February 1982, and
the operational date to mid-May 1982. Construction is already underway
on the 11th..Floor of the Key wilding to prepare the site for the
automated system. The text processing subsystem is on its original
schedule and is already producing excellent quality test pages utilizing
a phototypesetter at the CIA printing facility. FBIS expects to
=nw -ter--base II, in FY' 1982 and complete the automation in .'FY 1983.
Swaziland Bureau
FBIS Executive Officer on TDY in Swaziland, has located 25X1
several possible sites in'Mbabane for t e new bureau. An FBIS technical
team is en route to check out the site possibili o determine which 25X1
will provide the best reception of area radios.
Central America Remote System
For years, poor radio propagation in Central ,America made it
virtually impossible for TBI'S to monitor radios of the area from its
existing bureaus. But beginning in 1979 the introduction of a system
that. involves the remoting of broadcasts over leased phone lines to the
Panama. Bureau, and more recently the installation of ?remote-tuning
devices to control radio receivers in the embassies from the Panama
Bureau, has produced excellent coverage of public radios in the area.
The improvement in the quantity of information processed from these
broadcasts can best he illustrated by comparing the average monthly
output in wordage, by country, from 1979 to 19.81: El Salvador, from
1,000 to 32,000; Guatemala, from 1,200. to 14,000; Honduras, from
virtually nil to 16,000; and Nicaragua, from 26,000 to 130,000. F
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Peking Embassy Request
The U.S. Embassy in Peking asked the FBIS Analysis Group, in a
cable dated 27 October, to prepare a report for the Embassy on treatment
of Stalin recently in the Chinese media, and to provide a judgment as to
whether this has current significance for developments in China. 25X1
Terrorism Documents
FBIS has asked the Human Resources Committee/IC Staff to provide
guidance for the Intelligence Community in regard to the handling and
processing of extensive holdings of foreign-language documents dealing
with terrorism. These documents are held by a number of U.S. Government
agencies; FBTS has estimated that State Department holdings alone would
require six to a dozen multilingual officers for processing. The total
magnitude of U.S. Government holdings is still not fully known, but it
clearly would involve additional staffing, funding, and space for
classified work. It is understood this problem will be referred to the
Inter-Agency Committee on Terrorism.
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