'BRUTE POWER' TO SEND 'VOICE' INTO RED CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300120020-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: September 2, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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OWARD HUGHES may take the plaid Emmy for:
being the world's most uncommunicative and/or
uncommunicable-with man, but his company Hughes
Aircraft, makes up for this slight deficiency. Having
pioneered the Early Bird Satellite, the firm is now con- '{
structing a "transmitting farm" . in the Philippines that will
crack the ,Bamboo Curtain and bring the Voice of. America,
'clear, strong and unjammed to Peking.
Engineers say that the Voice's penetration into Red Chi-
:.nese territory will rely on "sheer brute power" of ten 250,000
watt transmission units which will be "surrounded by 2,000
acres sprouting 50 or more antennas, each capable of sending
its signal as far as 5,000 miles."
"We anticipate attempted signal jam:iiing," says a.'
Hughes spokesman, "and we're ready. Were It necessary we-. could tune all ten transmitters to the same frequency and
direct the output specifically at the Peking area. This would
train one billion watts of effective radiated power against the
-resistance ... They'd get the message.
"Man is basically gregarious," continues the spokesman.
albeit sounding like an electronically hip Galen, Drake, "-and
'he will gather with friends in homes, public places-and If
he has to, even in clandestine groups in order to swap opinions
.and hear the latest news."
NEWSPAPERS, magazines or other communications
media are not available to millions of impoverished people in
!many-parts of Asia. But radio is. A shortwave receiving kit',
that costs around $40 In the United States is available in most.,.(
of Asia for less than, half that. Even the poorer people can
afford such a set if they buy it as a group, or as is usually the
case, one Is available in community gathering places.'
The new Philippines transmitters will beam. news and
entertainment in local languages and dialects.:;
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