MONTHLY REPORT - OKINAWA BUREAU - JUNE 1985

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• Publication Date: July 3, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES FORCES, JAPAN
FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
OKINAWA BUREAU
APO SAN FRANCISCO 96239
MOK-5017
3 July 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
THROUGH:
FROM:
Chief, Operations Group, FBIS
Acting Chief, FBIS Okinawa Bureau
SUBJECT: Monthly Report - Okinawa Bureau - June 1985
I. GENERAL
The bureau lost all satellite coverage capability for eight days from
10-17 June, the first such outage since the ROSET dish was completed in 1981.
The dish went out of service when key roller bearings that carry the heaviest
load on the elevation strut/motor mechanism disintegrated despite abundant
lubrication. London Bureau/BBC took over Okinawa's Moscow ROSET coverage
throughout the period, while engineering staff worked through heavy rains
and high wind squalls to disassemble the elevation mechanism and pinpoint
the cause of motor overheating and failure. Replacement bearings were pro-
cured over the weekend from mainland Japan by an Okinawa distributor and
after reinstallation and a favorable weather change, the dish resumed operations
the next morning. In message exchanges related to this and Okinawa's wishes
for a second ROSET dish, the bureau learned that its ROSET "upgrade" is planned
for FY-1987. Bureau proposals for a 6-meter turn-key ROSET dish installation
capable of covering satellite television, to be bought from mainland Japan,
were turned down.
The bureau's planned eight-year housing recapitalization program got a
boost from the 20-23 June visit by chief of the Headquarters
Real Estate and Construction Division. toured the housing area,
inspected Kadena AB military housing projects under construction, discussed
possible floorplan designs and housing features, and met with key personnel
in the Okinawa Area Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on 21 June to
discuss the housing program and schedules for architecture and engineering
phases. Q assured the bureau would have considerable delegated authority
over the project once house blueprints have been studied and differences recon-
ciled. A memo for record was pouched to Headquarters 28 June.
Bureau activity aimed at improving Philippines coverage advanced only
slightly in June. Tokyo Embassy officers briefed a "senior Foreign Ministry"
officer of the Japanese Government on bureau plans for a late November follow-
up cruising survey at Ishigaki Island in the southern Ryukyus as an emergency
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monitoring site. There have been no further questions or problems raised
with Embassy contacts since, and this has been construed as tacit acceptance
of FBIS plans. The acting bureau chief briefed the Consul General, Naha, and
the Okinawa Area Coordinator with the Japanese, Maj. Gen. James L. Day, about
the Ishigaki and other remote plans on 12 June. The bureau supplied technical
parameters for autovon circuits needed if a remote reception facility is estab-
lished in the Philippines to feed radio signals to Okinawa. Exchanges continue
with Headquarters and Philippines contacts on how and whether a remote system
can operate effectively.
A. Editorial/Monitorial
1. Japanese NHK television monitoring continued to draw consumers
and queries in June, including another Prime Minister Nakasone appearance, a
two-part series on "Electronic Warfare" that featured the BBC Monitoring
Service's Polish team in part one, and another NHK feature on the Sino-Soviet
border conflict. All were included in the "cities" courier shipments by DHL
to MOD, which supplied BBC with a copy of the NHK part concerning BBC. Russian
monitors found some early Moscow TV comment from the "World Today" dealing with
the Middle East TWA hijacking.
2. Both Okinawa and Hong Kong were advised by the Hong Kong printers
of the Beijing Renmin Ribao that they would start receiving the "overseas
edition" starting 1 July. Okinawa will continue getting the Hong Kong overseas
edition, but will also subscribe to the domestic edition previously received,
through the PRC Government "Guoji Shudian" distributor. The bureau began cruising
efforts on 30 June to locate the announced new satellite facsimile transmission
of Renmin Ribao, which is to be available in New York and San Francisco, among
other overseas points. Early checks indicate new facsimile signals are on the
Intelsat 60 East satellite; the bureau cannot print these fax signals with existing
equipment, but may be able to in October, when its own "adaptable fax processor"
is delivered by Engineering Division.
3. Four clandestine anti-Deng Xiaoping Chinese-language radios--"Voice
of the PLA," "Radio Spark," "Radio October Storm," and "Contingent of Proletarian
Fighters" were last heard on 9 June but have not been heard since on regular fre-
quencies or in band cruising. Cruising checks are continuing, partly in support
of a possible Analysis Group note, with Bangkok and Hong Kong also looking.
4. Summer editorial turnover began in June: Senior editor
ers, with
departed
replacement -arriving 10 June PCS. Mrs.
on 13 June for Cologne Unit after home leave; editor
to follow 14 July).
juggled to suit:
29 July, when
and trainee TDYer both departed 23 June for Headquart-
reference material
Editorial collateral responsibilities were re-
taking on Chinese and Vietnamese responsibility and
and Japanese units until senior editor arrives
will get Japanese and Vietnamese. Editor has
duties and lateral services.
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Okinawa's draft emergency coverage plan was cabled to Headquarters
and Far East bureaus and London/BBC on 12 June for comment and MOD massaging,
before MOD reissuance.
C. Cruising
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1. Major annual cruising reports were completed during June, relying
heavily on IBM PC data bases in Lotus 1-2-3: the annual update of all types of
modulation on satellites visible at Okinawa, and an update of all possible pri-
mary/backstop coverage by satellite, adding to the pass-feed study submitted in
May.
2. High-frequency updates, also using the IBM PC data base, included
Philippines international services, Mongolian domestic and international voice
as well as press, Japan international and press transmissions, Taiwan inter-
national and press, North and South Korean press circuits, as well as new
Bangladesh international frequencies.
3. Satellite cruising detected on the 60 East Intelsat London REUTER,
Moscow TASS Cyrillic and a Soviet weather facsimile transmission, Bombay PTI
English, and an additional Xinhua English frequency from Beijing; on the 63 East
Intelsat, cruisers located two point-to-point facsimile circuits between Tokyo
and Beijing, an apparently different'. Bombay PTI English, and Madrid EFE in
Spanish for the first time from Okinawa's ROSET.
III. ADMINISTRATION/LOGISTICS
1. Chinese monitor) ~as presented at a 20 June ceremony with a
$1,000 check and special achievement award certificate and letter from the
Director, FBIS, for his key role in developing the bureau's Lotus 1-2-3 computer
application for the bureau financial ledger and monthly FSR earlier this year.
lso played the main role in developing the bureau payrolling-time/attend-
4. Five bureau monitors received length of service certificates in ceremonies
ance computer application. Presentation photo attached.
2. Long-time Bolo Point MLC custodian a smiling "legend in his
own time," was presented with a letter of appreciation by the acting bureau chief
on 17 June, on the eve of his retirement 28 June. More than 40 friends and guests
attended a retirement celebration 28 June at a local restaurant near Torii Station.
3. Survey work began in June at the Bolo operations site to develop an up-
dated and accurate site plan locating all utilities lines and piping throughout
the grounds, in anticipation of future construction and facilities. The Army
Corps of Engineers is handling the project, scheduled for completion late August.
Other Bolo projects included completing renovation of part of the old BOQ building
across the road as additional warehouse space, complete with a concrete drive for
forklift operation in wet weather, and letting of a contract to resurface the
employee tennis court at Bobo, scheduled to be completed early August.
in early June: Vietnamese monitor for 25 years, Chinese monitors
for 15 years, Korean/Japanese monitor
for 15 years, and Korean/Japanese monitor for 10 years.
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$1,000 U.S. Treasury check and his special
achievement award certificate for his work
in developing bureau computer applications
programs for financial ledger/FSR, at a 20
June ceremony, from acting Bureau Chief
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OKINAWA BUREAU PRODUCTION REPORT FOR JUNE 1985
1. TOTALS FROM ALL SOURCES:
TOTAL PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH: 1,302,740
TOTAL NON-PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING-MONTH: 462,910
TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHABLE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH: 3,703
BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
II. INPUT OF RB R COVERAGE: 19,895 39,860 175.02
(minutes or issues per week) min. min. issues
III. OUTPUT FROM ALL SOURCES:
CHINA
Beijing International Service to East and South Africa in
English 730
Beijing International Service to North America in
English 1,650
Beijing International Service in
Japanese 410
Beijing International Service in
Mandarin 540
Beijing to Taiwan in
Mandarin 1,670
Beijing to the USSR in
Russian 3,230
Beijing to Vietnam in
Vietnamese 3,630
Beijing Domestic Service in
Mandarin 14,780
Fuzhou lha jinn Provincial Service in
Mandarin 3,840
Hangzhou Zhejiang Provincial Service in
Mandarin 5,210
Hefei Anhui Provincial Service in
Mandarin 3,720
Nanchang Jiangxi Provincial Service in
Mandarin 16,550
Nanjing Jiangsu Provincial Service in
Mandarin 7,870
Shanghai City Service in
Mandarin 6,310
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Beijing XINHUA in
English
Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service in
Chinese
Beijing BEIJING REVIEW in
English
Fuzhou FUJ IAN R IBAO In
Chinese
Hefei ANHUI RIBAO in
Chi nese..
Hangzhou ZHEJIANG RIBAO in
Chinese
Nanjing XINHUA RIBAO in
Chinese
Shanghai J IEFANG RIBAO in
Chinese
Shanghai WEN HUI BAO in
Chinese
CLANDESTINE
(Clandestine) Be Yi Radio to.China in
Mandarin
(Clandestine) Voice of the PLA to China in
Mandarin
(Clandestine) Radio Spark to China in
Mandarin
(Clandestine) Radio October Storm to China in
Mandarin
(Clandestine) Contingent of Proletarian Fighters
to China in
JAPAN
Tokyo NHK Television Network in
Japanese'
Tokyo JPS in
English
Tokyo KYODO in
English
Tokyo JIJI in
English
Tokyo AKAHATA in
Japanese
Tokyo ASAHI SHIMBUN in
Japanese
Tokyo ASAHI EVENING NEWS in
English
Tokyo JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL in
English
Tokyo MAINICIII DAILY NEWS in
English
BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
1,170
496,310
166,600
3,960
25,370
2,020
2,900
33,860
3,290
10,010
2,160
145,790
3,650
2,750
17,920
5,920
14,260
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BROAD- PRESS PUBL I-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
Tokyo MAINICHI SHIMBUN in
Japanese
Tokyo NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN in
Japanese
Tokyo SANKEI SHIMBUN in
Japanese
Tokyo THE DAILY YOMIURI in
. English
Tokyo THE JAPAN TIMES in
English
Tokyo TOKYO SHIMBUN in
Japanese
Tokyo YOMIURI SHIMBUN in
Japanese
Naha OKINAWA TIMES in
-Japanese
Naha RYUKYU SHIMPO in
Japanese
KOREA (NORTH)
Pyongyang KCNA in
English
MONGOLIA
Ulaanbaatar MONTSAHE in
English
Ulaanbaatar MONTSAME in
Russian
TAIWAN
Taipei ?International Service in
. English.
Taipei Domestic Service in
Mandarin
Taipei CNA in
English
.Taipei CHINA POST in
English
Taipei CHING CHI JIH PAO in
Chinese
Taipei CHUNG KUO SHIH PAO in
Chinese
Taipei CHUNG YANG JIH PAO in
Chinese
Taipei LIEN HO PAO in
Chinese
Taipei LIEN HO YUEH KAN in
Chinese
Taipei TZU LI WAN PAO in
Chinese
3,250
3,960
22,070
2,160
24,260
10,150
5,230
1,370
2,940
4,720
130
340
16,300
9 , 560
20,160
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UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Moscow to Japan in
Japanese
Moscow to Southeast Asia in
Mandarin
Moscow to China in
Mandarin
Moscow to Vietnam in
Vietnamese
Moscow Radio Peace and Progress to China in
Mandarin
Moscow Radio Peace and Progress to Southeast Asia in
Mandarin
Moscow Domestic Television Service in
Russian
V IETNAM
Hanoi International Service in
Mandarin
Hanoi Domestic Service in
Vietnamese
Hanoi VNA in
English
Hanoi VNA in
French
Hanoi VNA in
Vietnamese
Ho Chi Minh City VNA in
Vietnamese
BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
69,150
3,640
1,710
1,330
? 170
2 3 ,430
13,720
80,770
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1. U.S. Air Force 1982nd ISG crews completed installation of one new
rhombic antenna curtain on the new poles erected earlier; the second curtain
is scheduled to be done by the end of July.
2. Engineering staff placed orders with the local SONY distributor for
all television editing and monitoring equipment requested by MOD, against the
refund credit from the incompatible SONY 820S videocassette recorders procured
earlier, as well as a small number of other VCRs for bureau spares and stock,
to complete the FY-1984 funds expenditure.
Chief, Real Estate and Construction Division, OL, 20-23
June for consultations on housing recapitalization program.
Capt. Patrick Smith and Sergeants Hagland, Benner and Klutz, of Kadena's
USAF 6990th Electronic Security Group, Electronic Combat Center, 27 June, for
bureau orientation focusing on Soviet videotapes regularly provided to the
6990th ESG for training purposes.
Acting bureau chief and wife, on 7 June to change of command ceremonies
and reception, Marine Aircraft Wing 36, MCAS Futenma; on 12 June to change of
command festivities at First Marine Aircraft Wing, MCAS Futenma, where Maj. Gen.
Charles H. Pitman took command from Maj. Gen. Frank E. Peterson; and on 26 June
to change of command ceremonies and reception for U.S. Army Information Systems
Command Signal Battalion Okinawa (Fort Buckner ASC), where Lt. Col. Allan M.
Maughan took command.
Russian Unit and trainee monitor along
with staff editor an associate editor on 13 June
attended a U.S. Navy unclassified intelligence film and briefing at Kadena's
Olympic Theater, in which much of the footage was taken from Moscow TV's "I
Serve the Soviet Union" military indoctrination program covered by Okinawa
Bureau. The Navy officers hoped for an FBIS briefing, when they learned in
after-film discussions of the bureau here, but time did not permit.
Acting Chief, Okinawa Bureau
Attachment:
= Award Presentation
(No engineering attachment this time)
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