NEWSLETTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00065R000100130006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 2, 1987
• Content Type: MISC

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2 January 1987
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NEWSLETTER 2 January 1987
Cavershan-Madley-Independent Hill (Quantico) testing of the INTERNET
system is underway following activation of the INTERNET transponder by
Intelsat on 15 November. Testin is expected to continue through the week
of S January. The Langley microwave link is projected 25X1
for March. The INTERNET Control Center Staff plans to begin using the
Headquarters TVRO in mid-January to take relays from London Bureau via the
Intelsat satellite to feed directly into the Langley television grid. 25X1
FY-87 funding for the Reston project was finally approved in mid-
December. The new schedule-for-our building calls for bid review and
contract award by 20 February and interior renovations beginning on the
top (third) floor of the building by 26 May. The renovations begin with
the third floor due to the critical need for completion of this space as
required by the Lockheed contract. Due to earlier funding delays, we now
anticipate initital moves into the building will take place this summer.
The third floor will be occupied by the Front Office, Ops, the Wire, DRD,
Admin Staff, and ESG. AG, MOD, and some ESG components will be on the
second floor, with Prod occupying the ground floor.
The Headquarters TVRO antenna provided live coverage on 2 December
of Cuban celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of Fidel Castro's
return from exile to launch Cuba's revolution. Headquarters consumers
viewed both Castro's speech and the military parade held to mark the
occasion.
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WIRE, FIELD ITEIS IN COIN 1tNITY DATA BASE
The FBIS Wire Service and all publishable items from the field are
now available to subscribers of the Community Information Retrieval
Service (CIRS) data base via the COINS and IDITSC-2 networks. The data
base initially consists of the most recent 90 days of FBIS reporting, but
will be expanded to hold a 14-month accumulation. The Intelligence
Information Handling Committee announced the new service on 20 November.
ASSOCIATION BENEFIT PLAN DISTRIBUTES REBATES
The Government Employees Health Association (GEHA) was to have
distributed a refund of excess reserves in the amount of $94.29 for
"self only" members and $313.78 for "self and family" members by
30 November to employees who were in the Association Benefit Plan (ABP)
as of 6 January 1985 and to annuitants who were in the plan as of
1 January 1985. GEHA was to deposit refunds to employees' credit
union accounts, with deposits to be reflected in the November 1986
statements. Employees who do not have credit union accounts will receive
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political operations. The VM1 urged to continue to give priority
to this coverage and to convey to the BBC Monitoring Service Washington's
appreciation for their important contribution in this regard.
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SAN SALVADOR SYSTEM REINSTALLED
The remote system in San Salvador has been reinstalled in the U.S.
Embassy and is once again operational after several months of downtime in
the wake of the 10 October earthquake in that city. Panama Bureau is
again able to remote-tune and receive clear voice feeds.
NEW NSC DIRECTOR TAPS FBIS
An AG Soviet media analyst fielded a rush request from new NSC
Director Frank Carlucci, relayed by the White House Situation Room, for
material on Soviet commentary on Iran in recent months. She produced an
annotated list of key commentaries, citing original and Daily Report
sources, and put this in a package together with copies of two Trends
articles on the subject. The package was delivered to the White House.
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At the request of DO Indochina Operations, NEAD prepared a
background paper describing the structure and personalities of the Office
of the President of Laos. The paper is going to overseas stations to
assist them in reporting on the situation in Laos, where Souphanouvon
has "temporarily resigned" the presidency for health reasons.
ELAAD ELAAD provided a language officer for a 2-week TIDY to serve as French
interpreter in the briefing of the Tunisian and Moroccan security services
on the Western Sahara and Libya. The same officer served as interpreter
and escort officer during the visit to Wa~ton of the head of the
Tunisian National Guard in November.
UD published the first issue of the new serial USSR Report: National
Economy in November. The new serial consolidates under one cover the
former Economic Affairs, Agriculture, Construction and Related Industries,
Consumer Goods an Domestic Trade, Energy, Human Resources and
Transportation. The consolidation is intended to decrease publication
delays and eliminate the need for cross referencing and double-publishing
UD supplied the FBIS representative to the first meeting in November
of the --Foreign Language Committee's Working Group on Education and
Training, held at the Department of Education. The purpose of the meeting
was to discuss the proposal to create a National Foundation for Foreign
Language and International Studies.
The first and second issues of Economic Previews were made available
by UD to Agency consumers on VM in November, and a system for distributing
future issues electronically was established.EESG provided the technical
expertise and training for the project. 7
The NIO for Narcotics has now opened his monthly warning meeting to
FBIS officers. This was a result of efforts by the FBIS Focal Point
Officer for Narcotics representing the usefulness of FBIS reporting to
the overall mission as well as the area knowledge of Prod officers.
Okinawa Bureau's famed high-powered Vietnamese monitoring team is
now down to one, who is covering only Moscow and Beijing Vietnamese and
helping Bangkok Bureau with some processing. Repair work required by
Typhoon Vera damage and general deterioration of the bureau's rhombics
and beverages was completed by the Air Force maintenance crew in October.
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Some antennas still require major pole replacement scheduled for later in
the winter. Chinese senior monitor departed for retirement
in the United States at the end of November a er 16 years at the bureau.
At a retirement party given by 45 of his colleagues and friends,
received a letter from D/FBIS and a Certificate of Merit, and responded
by singing a Peking Opera selection he had composed personally in honor
of the event.
The "death" of Kim Il-song got Seoul Bureau's attention in November.
Bureau editors and the bureau chief spent the better part of 3 days in
meetings and responding to telephone queries from senior Embassy and
military officers. Each time they convinced everyone there were no media
indications of Kim's death, the rumor resurfaced from another direction.
When Pyongyang finally reported Kim's presence at the airport to greet
a foreign visitor, the bureau dispatched an associate editor to the
television monitoring site at the DMZ. He telephoned an FYI to the bureau
on television coverage of the arrival ceremony, handcarried the
videotapes back to the bureau, and helped prepare two editorial reports
on the coverage. The ambassador came to the bureau twice for briefings
on developments and phoned several other times.
With the transfer of Beijing television coverage to Okinawa, Hong
Kong Bureau has reconfigured its former television monitoring room to
serve as the new Philippines section. The change has given the
Philippine monitors relief from their formerly cramped working conditions.
Jordan Bureau's October filed wordage was an all-time high of
408,870, reflecting not only two big stories -- Arab World reaction to
the Ui( decision to sever relations with Syria and the withdrawal of the
U.S. ambassador -- but increases associated with the bureau's added
coverage responsibilities.
Reports of possible terrorist actions against U.S. facilities in
Cyprus prompted a security resurvey of Nicosia Bureau in October. A
visiting security specialist recommended installation of a steel barrier
on the mezzanine-level stairwell to delay access to the bureau premises.
The barrier and a new door for the safehaven area were installed by the
end of the month. The Cyprus police, in response to a request, increased
the number of roving patrols on the streets around the bureau and the
Embassy, but were not able to station a uniformed constable at the bureau
due to manpower shortages.
Following legislation that effectively killed prospects for a new
chancery building in the near future in Israel, a large team from the
Department of State visited the mission in November to assess the
feasability of "retrofitting" the chancery for further years of service.
Members of the team visited Tel Aviv Bureau in connection with the
possibility of moving various components to the Migdalor Building. The
bureau chief briefed the team on FBIS's experience with the building and
gave them a guided tour.
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Abidjan Bureau is making increasing use of its IBM PC's. For some
time staff members have been using them for editorial and monitorial work
schedules, production reports, nonstaff personnel reports, and property
inventory records. Now the bureau has added the staff personnel report
and FSN periodic step increase dates. The bureau SOP is on disk and is
being updated with Multimate. Experiments are going on with production
data on Lotus, engineering graphics, and the bureau cabinet list.
Swaziland Bureau added evening shifts on Saturday and Sunday
beginning in October, thus expanding to 14 shifts per week. The bureau
is now open 0445-2030 (MI" daily and has one editor, one teletypist, one
African-languages monitor, and one Portuguese monitor on duty each
As part of the State effort to bolster security at embassies,
Paraguay Bureau personnel are now required to wear ID badges on duty.
Personal and official vehicles must be registered and display a decal to
After many delays by the Navy, and the contractor, the new housing at
Key West Bureau was turned over to the bureau chief on 12 December and
FBIS families have started to move despite a long punch list of
Vienna Bureau local area network (VLAN) usage took another step
forward in October when the landline transmission of Paris AFP English
was added to the network. Total bureau wordage produced on VLAN in
November rose to 350,080, including 126,010 words of English-language
press agency traffic that needed no rekeying. The total VLAN figure
represented 43 percent of the total wordage for November. The Yugoslav
monitorial section was added to the VLAN in November, bringing the number
of monitorial units with direct access to the system to three.
London Bureau editorial began a 90-day experiment in November in
which slot editor begin and end their shifts 1 hour earlier than rim
editors. Slot duty during the experiment will be in 3-hour increments
beginning at midnight local time. Management hopes to improve
coordination at shift change time with the altered working hours.
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