MONTHLY REPORT - LONDON BUREAU - JULY 1985

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CIA-RDP86-00040R000300560006-6
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August 2, 1985
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MEMO
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 2 August 1985 MLD-5029 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service FROM Chief, London Bureau THROUGH Chief, Operations Group SUBJECT Monthly Report - London Bureau - July 1985 BBC Modernization: Occupants of the west end of the Caversham Park building can attest to the progress of the modernization program as seen - and heard, and felt -from the bureau chief's office. Several small buildings adjoining the old conference room and the former PMU quarters have been leveled and the old BBC Club/engineering building has been reduced to a roofless shell. On another aspect of modernization, the weekly HENLEY STANDARD reported that members of the South Oxfordshire District Council's planning subcommittee would be visiting Crowsley Park to determine what "impact" the four satellite antennae planned for the park would have on this site. Committee chairman Mrs. Doreen Cook was quoted as saying that "they are very large dish aerials or receivers which will make a lot of difference to the landscape." A. Monitorial/Editorial PMU's Russians again demonstrated their professionalism as they whipped out two eagerly awaited exclusives from pressfax - the text of the USSR Central Statistical Administration's report on plan fulfillment for the first half of this year and the Gorbachev announcement of a moratorium on nuclear explosions. The speed with which the 11-take CSA report was produced prompted the Wire to cancel a request for immediate-precedence filing of any TASS or Moscow radio/TV summaries originally intended to provide consumers with information in advance of the text. A congratulatory message from Headquarters said consumers appreciated the speed and expertise with which this document was handled. Four days later, consumers were reported in another Headquarters message as "very impressed with PMU's expert handling" of the Gorbachev moratorium statement which was "a clean scoop over all foreign and domestic news media." A model FYI quoting the significant portion of Gorbachev's statement was filed by PMU Deputy Chief at flash precedence, with Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 the 550-word text of the statement following at immediate precedence 20 minutes later. B. Lateral Service At the request of an Embassy component, the bureau obtained from the BBC a series of BBC World Service correspondents' reports and broadcast items relating to remarks made by a Soviet scientist at a meeting in Stockholm. The consumer expressed appreciation for the speedy assistance from the bureau and the BBC. C. Technical 1. The Engineering Section is in the process of renewing the Wireroom's jackfields and generally updating the line termination modules. New cables are being run and rewiring is being carried out as necessary. 2. After several da s of telephone discussions with Wang U.K. Wlang U.K. s agreement was secured for ungrudging ang Europe Vice President installation and maintenance of the bureau's planned Wang VS65 system upgrade for the PMU. Wang U.K.'s attitude had been a matter of considerable doubt and anxiety when their local sales agent began making noises about potential legal problems and local Wang disenchantment with the FBIS account in the event the system was procured in the United States. After some pressure from the cited Wang U.K. hierarchy the salesman seems to have seen reason. Headquarters is proceeding with procurement, at sizeable cost savings, of a system which should provide multiple production efficiencies for PMU, the tabulators, and the telecommunications staff. Personnel 1. Editorial changeovers continued this month with the arrival of on the 1st and the departure for PCS assi nments at Headquarters of on the 14th and and family on the 10th. New Chief Editor and family arrived on the 27th. 2. Edito received his promotion to GS-12 and the bureau now has a third senior associate editor with the promotion of Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 To the Bureau: (Production Group's Mongolian expert spent a day's TDY with BBC's head of SWB Part 1, and with retired British ex ert on Mongo ia. Another Prod visitor Balkan , progr TDY'd at the bureau on 8 July. Chief Editor ave FBIS orientation briefings to a series of new BBC m Yugoslav monitor; Russian; zech and Russian; and of the Afghan From the Bureau: Senior Associate Editor) (filled the Abidjan Bureau editorial gap this summer on a working TDY from 12 June to 18 July. BBC Visitors: of the BBC each paid familiarization visits to Vienna Bureau this summer. T retired BBC correspondents -~ formerly based in East Europe, an African specialist - share a contract assignment to pro uce a weekly program for BBC Radio 3 called "Six Continents", a version of which is broadcast on the World Service under the title "Monitor". Each works a three-month stint at Caversham Park using BBC-FBIS materials to prepare the program, then retires for three months while the other takes over. FBIS bureaus will recognize their files - from Lagos domestic service to Damascus, from Cairo commentaries to Buenos Aires reporting LA PRENSA articles. Rare sunshine brightened the afternoon outdoor party at Senior Associate Editor given b 'ng editors nd A little razz e i not ampen the p easure o a second goodbye party, this one hosted by as a sendoff for Chief Editor) land, coinci entally. as cc: Chief, Austria Bureau Chief, Cologne Unit Chief, Islamabad Unit Chief, Okinawa Bureau t e recently Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 London Bureau Production Report far JULY 1985 TOTAL PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH: 2,334,364 TOTAL NON-PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH: 525,:374 TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHABLE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH: 5,489 BROAD- FRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS II. INPUT OF REGULAR COVERAGE: 71,455 iT8,541 594.14 (minutes or issues per week) min. min. issues III. OUTPUT FROM ALL SOURCES: (publishable words per month) Kabul in English to Europe 4 Kabul in Pashto and Dari to Europe 4 Kabul Domestic Service in Dari 18,444 Kabul Domestic Service in Pashto 6,474 Kabul Domestic Service in Pashto and Dari 4 Kabul Kabul HAKHTAR in Dari HAKHTAR in English 574 1.3,724 ALBANIA Tirana ATA in Eng 1 i sh Tirana ATA in French ALGERIA Algiers Voice of Palestine in Arabic 2,524 Algiers Domestic Service in Arabic 4,474 Algiers Domestic Service in French 1,814 Algiers APS in Arabic Algiers AFS in English 3,524 6 ~ .~,3f) Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Algiers APS in French Algiers AL-SHA'B in Arabic Algiers EL MOUDJAHID in French ARGENTINA Buenos Aires International Service in English AUSTRALIA Melbourne Overseas Service in English AUSTRIA Vienna OPECNA in English BELGIUM Brussels in French to Africa Brussels Domestic Service in French Brussels LE SOIR in French BULGARIA Sofia in Russian to the USSR Sofia BTA in Eng 1 i sh BURUNDI Bujumbura Domestic Service in French Bujumbura Domestic Service in h'.irundi CANADA Montreal International Service in English CHINA E~eijing XTNHUA in BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS 3,9DD 1,14U Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS CLANDESTINE (AFRICA) (Clandestine) Radio Halgan in Somali to Somalia 2,940 tClandestine) Radio of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army in Arabic 2,410 (Clandestine) Radio of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army in English 16,360 (Clandestine) Voice of Western Somalia and Abo Liberation Fronts in Somali 150 (Clandestine) Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea in Amharic 410 (Clandestine) Eritrea in Tigrinya Voice of the Broad Masses of 1,470 (Clandestine) in Amharic (Clandestine) in Tigrinya (Clandestine) in Voice of the Tigre Revolution to Ethiopia Voice of the Tigre Revolution to Ethiopia Bardai Chadian National Radio 0 0 CLANDESTINE (MIDDLE EAST) (Clandestine) Radio of the Iranian Toilers in Persian *(Clandestine) Voice of Afghanistan in Pashto COMOROS Moroni Domestic Service in French CZECHOSLOVAKIA Prague International Service in Czech and Slovak 2,260 Prague International Service in English 720 Frague in Czech and S1 ovaL:: to Europe 1 , 99c~~ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS Prague in Russian to the USSR 27~ Prague Domestic Service in Czech 20, 85~'~ Frague Domestic Service in Czech and Slovak 19,19~a Frague Television Service in Czech and Slovak 8,76u Bratislava Domestic Service in Slovak 9,920 Prague CTK in English DENMARK Copenhagen AKTUELT in Danish Copenhagen BERLINGSKE SONDAG in Danish Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish Copenhagen SONDAGS-AKTUELT in Danish DJIBOUTI D.]ibouti Domestic Service in 4 , 86ca 1,4~~~ Somal i ~~~ EGYPT Cairo AKHBAR AL-YAWN in Arabic ~~ Cairo AL-AHALI in Arabic 5,88~~ Cairo AL-AHRAM AL-IQTISADI in Arabic D Cairo in AL-AHRAM International Edition Arabic 4,71~~ Cairo AL-AKHBAR in Arabi c 1 , 927 Cairo AL-JUMHURIYAH in Arabic G Cairo AL-MUSAWWAR in Arabi c 7, ??,4C? Cairo AL-SHA'B in Arabic 1,46 Cairo MAYU in Arabic b , U4~7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 HROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS Cairo ROSE AL-YUSUF in Arabic Cairo UKTUBAR in Arabic ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa International Service in Arabic ~~ Addis Ababa International Service in Somali 0 Addis Ababa Radio Freedom in English to South Africa 6,960 Addis Ababa Voice of Namibia in English ??},390 Addis Ababa in English to Neighboring Countries 2,180 Addis Ababa in Amharic to Neighboring Countries 820 Addis Ababa Domestic Service in Amharic 19,490 Addis Ababa Domestic Service in Oromo 410 Harar Domestic Service in Or omo 18ca FINLAND Helsinki International Service in Finnish 5,470 Helsinki International Service in English, 10,260 Helsinki Domestic Service in Finnish 6,820 Helsinki Domestic Service in Swedish ~~ Helsinki HUFVUDSTADSBLADET in Swedish FRANCE Paris International Service in French 5,010 Paris Domestic Service in French 7,020 Paris Television Service in French 0 Paris AFRIQUE-ASIE in French Paris AL-MUSTAQBAL in French 1,230 5 , c~4i_~ .. ~ bc.~0 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 BROAD- CASTS PRESS AGENCIES PUBLI- CATIONS Paris Paris Paris AL-WATAN AL-'ARABI in Arabi c DEFENSE NATIONALE in French JEUNE AFRIQUE in French ~-~ C' Paris Paris L'EXPRESS in French L'HUMANITE in French ~~ 1 ~, B4~J Faris LE FIGARO MAGAZINE in French 4, 5cata Paris LE FIOARO in French 2,95~~ Paris LE MATIN in French ~, 2c~~a Paris LE MONDE in French 17 , 627 Paris LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR in French Paris LE QUOTIDIEN DE PARIS in French Paris LIBERATION in French Faris PARIS MATCH in French Paris L'UNITE in French GERMANY tFRG) Cologne Deutschlandfunk Network: in German Hamburg Domestic Service in German Hamburg DPA in German 3U,5:~D East East East East in Berlin Russian Berlin German Berlin Russian Perlin German in to the USSR Domestic Service in Radio Volga in to the Soviet Forces Voice of GDR Domestic Service ~a 147 594 6,41 East Berlin German ADN International Service in 4~~, 7c7c~ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 BROAD- PRESS FUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS HUNQARY Budapest in English to Europe 620 Budapest in Hungarian to Australia and New Zealand 0 Budapest in Hungarian to Europe 640 Budapest Domestic Service in Hungarian 2f), 560 Budapest Television Service in Hungarian 5,410 Budapest MTI in English INDIA Delhi Qeneral Overseas Service in Eng 1 i sh Delhi Domestic Service in English IRAN Tehran International Service in Fersi an Tehran in English to Europe Tehran Domestic Service in Persian Tehran IRNA in English IRAQ Baghdad AL-JUMHURIYAH in Arabic Baghdad AL-THAWRAH in Arabic ISRAEL Jerusalem International Service in English Jerusalem Domestic Service in English ITALY Rome International Service in Italian 61,160 16,950 74,280 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Rome Domestic Service in Italian Rome AVANTI in Italian Rome L'ESPRESSO in Italian Rome L'UNITA in Italian Rome LA REPUBBLICA in Italian Milan CORRIERE DELLA SERA in Italian Milan EUROPEO in Italian Milan L'UNITA in Italian Turin LA STAMPA in Italian Turin STAMPA SERA DEL LUNEDI in Italian BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS KENYA Nairobi Domestic Service in English 1,354 Nairobi Domestic Service in Swahili 1,604 Nairobi Television Service in English 4 Nairobi Television Service in Swahili c7 Nairobi KNA in English *Nairobi DAILY NATION in English *Nairobi SUNDAY NATION in English *Nairobi SUNDAY TIMES in Eng 1 i sh *Nairobi THE KENYA TIMES in English Nairobi THE NAIROBI TIMES in English Nairobi THE STANDARD in English KUWAIT Kuwait Domestic Service in Arabic 1,234 1.3, 434 b , 26c:~ 4, 69c7 2,864 5,774 5,294 .; , 584 b , 58c=~ 2, 54r~ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS Kuwait KUNA Diplomatic Information Service in Arabic Q Kuwait KUNA in Arabi c 14 , 93c~ Kuwait KUNA in English 24, ~7c~ LEBANON Beirut AL-BAYRAQ in Arabic Beirut AL-NAHAR AL-'ARABI WA AL-DUWALI in Arabic Beirut AL-NAHAR INTERNATIONAL EDITION in Arabic Beirut AL-SAFIR in Arabic 2, b~c7 LIBYA Tripoli Voice of Greater Arab homeland in Arabi c Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic 5, 4c~t~ 5,pic7 Tripoli Correspondent's Dispatch in Arabic Tripoli DANA in Arabi c Tripoli DANA in English 9 , 49c'a 15,954 MAURITANIA Nouakchott Domestic Service in Arabi c 4, 24c~ MISCELLANEOUS Middle East/South Asia Review 19,21c~ MOROCCO Rabat Domestic Service in Arabi c 16, 5Bc7 Rabat MAP Diplomatic Information Service in Arabic Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS Rabat MAP Diplomatic Information Service in English U Rabat MAP Diplomatic Information Service in French U Rabat MAP in Arabic 5,67U Rabat MAP in English S,11U Rabat MAP in French 46U Rabat AL-'ALAM Arabic in U Casablanca LE MATIN DU SAHARA in French NETHERLANDS Hilversum International Service in English U Amsterdam Dutch DE VOLKSKRANT in 1,37U Rotterdam Dutch NRC HANDELSBLAD in 4, 59rj NIC3ERIA Lagos Domestic Service in Eng 1 i sh Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian 8,420 Oslo ARBEIDERBLADET Norwegian in 2,37U POLAND Warsaw International Service in English 87U Warsaw in Russian to the USSR U Warsaw Domestic Service in Polish 27,brjO Warsaw Television Service in Polish 9,19U Gdansk Domestic Service in Polish c7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 *Koszalin Domestic Service in Polish Poznan Domestic Service in Polish Szczecin Domestic Service in Polish Wroclaw Domestic Service in Polish Zielona Gora Domestic Service in Palish Warsaw PAP Maritime Press Service in Polish Warsaw PAP in Eng 1 i sh Warsaw RAP in French Warsaw PAP in Russian Warsaw PERSPEKTYWY in Polish Warsaw POLITYKA in Polish Warsaw RZECZPOSPOLITA in Polish Warsaw RZECZYWISTOSC in Po 1 i sh Warsaw SLOWO POWSZECHNE in Folish Warsaw SZTANDAR MLODYCH in Polish Warsaw TRYBUNA LUDU in Polish Warsaw TU I TERAZ in Polish Warsaw VETO in Polish Warsaw ZOLNIERZ WOLNOSCI in Polish Warsaw ZYCIE GOSPODARCZE in Polish Warsaw ZYCIE WARSZAWY in Polish Bialystok OAZETA WSPOLCZESNA in Polish Bydgoszcz GAZETA POMORSKA in Folish Gdansk DZIENNIK BALTYCkI in Polish Gdansk OLOS WYBRZEZA in Polish BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Katowice DZIENNIK ZACHODNI in Polish Katowice TRYBUNA ROBOTNICZA in Rol i sh Kielce SLOWO LUDU in Polish Koszalin OLOS POMORZA in Polish Krakow GAZETA KRAKOWSKA in Polish Lodz GLOS ROBOTNICZY in Polish Lublin SZTANDAR LUDU in Polish Olsztyn GAZETA OLSZTYNSKA in Polish Opole TRYBUNA OPOLSKA in Polish Poznan GAZETA POZNANSKA in Polish Szczecin OLOS SZCZECINSKI in Polish Szczecin KURIER SZCZECINSKI in Polish Walbrzych TRYBUNA WALBRZYSKA in Polish Wroclaw GAZETA ROBOTNICZA in Polish Wroclaw SLOWO POLSKIE in Pol i ah Zielona Oora GAZETA LUBUSKA in Polish PORTUGAL Lisbon International Service in Portuguese Lisbon Domestic Service in Portuguese Lisbon AVANTE! in Portuguese Lisbon DIARIO DE NOTICIAS in Portuguese Lisbon EXPRESSO in Portuguese ROMANIA Bucharest in Russian to the USSR BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS 4 , 99c7 3,77U Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Bucharest AOERPRES in English Bucharest AQERPRES in French RWANDA Kigali Domestic Service in French Kigali Domestic Service in Kinyarwanda SAUDI ARABIA Riyadh Domestic Service in Arabic Riyadh SPA in Arabic Riyadh SPA in Engl i ah Riyadh AL-JAZIRAH in Arabi c Riyadh AL-RIYAD in Arabi c Jeddah 'UKAZ in Arabi c SENEGAL Dakar FANA in English Dakar PANA in French SOMALIA Mogadishu Domestic Service in Somali Hargeisa Domestic Service in Somali SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg International Service in English SPAIN Madrid International Service in English BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS 1,4iSD 3,844 ,y?~~J 4 ~' 2,724 3,114 2,914 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/13: CIA-RDP86-000408000300560006-6 BROAD- PRESS PUBLI- GASTS AGENCIES CATIONS Madrid in Spanish to Europe Madrid Domestic Service in Spanish 4,040 13,140 Madrid ABC in Spanish 790 Madrid CAMBIO 16 in Spanish ~~, 83c7 Madrid EL PAIS in Spanish 7 , 58c7 Madrid MUNDO OBRERO in Spanish 3,540 Madrid YA in Spanish 460 Barcelona LA VANOUARDIA in Spanish 3,350 SUDAN Juba Sudan Domestic Service in English 0 Omdurman Domestic Service in Arabic Khartoum SUNA in 8,220 English x,440 Khartoum SUNA in French 0 *Khartoum SUNA in Arabic 520 SWEDEN Stockholm International Service in Swedish Stockholm Domestic Service in Swedish Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swedish SYRIA Damascus AL-BA'TH in Arabi c Damascus AL-THAWRAH in Arabic Damascus TISHRIN in Arabi c TANZANIA Dar Es Salaam E: