CABLE TO FBIS RESTON VA FROM FBIS LONDON UK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92-00053R000300120004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 3, 1988
• Content Type: CABLE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/08: CIA-RDP92-00053R000300120004-5
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REF WA1291Pd ON WE TV SOURCELINES:
1. STRONGLY PR.FtR THE "TELEVISION SERVICE" FOR14ULATION
FOR TVE-1 AS MORE MEANINGFUL TO CONSUPERS AND IN LINE WITH
OTHER BUREAU SOURCELINES. I ALSO HAVE SUFFICIENT WORMS
ON MY PLATE AT THE MOMENT AND DON'T NEED ANOTHER CAN. WHILE
WAXING METAPHORICAL. I HOPE YOU ARE NOT COUNTING YOUR CHICKENS
3FFORE THEY ARE HATCHEL IN IDENTIFYING A SOURCELINE FOR MADRID TV.
2. ON FRENCH TELEVISION IT IS A i3IT MORE COMPLICATED. FIRST
OF ALL. THE MONTHLY TF-1 PRIME MINISTERIAL ADDRESS TO THE
NATION LISTED IN THE COVERA6E SCHEDULE. IS NO MORE (THIS WILL BE
NOTED IN THE NtXT COVERAGr CHANGE REPORT). IT WAS DROPPED WHEN
CHIRAC TOOK OVER. ONLY FRENCH TV COVERAUE NOW UNDERTAKEN BY ROC
IS PURELY AD Hs ?C. E. G. IF THERE IS A PRFANNOUNCEMENT OF A MAJOR
GOVERNMENT SPEECH. THEY WILL ATTEMPT TO LAY ON TV COYFRA6c_ THE
ST LIKELY Sd FOR THIS WOULD BF C-?AND AND KU-BAND
ANSPONDERS ON THE FftRCUTELECOM 1A SATELLITE AT 008 DEGREES
WEST. THE KU-BAND CARRIES TWO STATIO S- ON A REGULAR FAS dOTR-
i VATELY OWNFO C ETROPOLE 6. IDE D IN THE WRTH AS 7V4.. AND
CHANNEL 5. IDENTIFIED IN WRTH AS A CINR;). THE C-BAND CARRIES
WHAT APPEARS TO u? MAT.RIAL FROM T"E E _TW. qN AN
IRREGULAR CASTS. USUALLY SPECIAL NE S EVENTS. THESE LATTER
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/08: CIA-RDP92-00053R000300120004-5
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/08: CIA-RDP92-00053R000300120004-5
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/08: CIA-RDP92-00053R000300120004-5