AUSTRIA BUREAU EMERGENCY COVERAGE PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP94-00798R000200150058-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: March 5, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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FOREI`..J BROADCAST INFORMATION S_riVICE
P.O. Box 2604
Washington, D.C. 20013
MHQ-6027
5 March 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Austria Bureau
FROM Chief, Monitoring Operations Division
SUBJECT Austria Bureau Emergency Coverage Plan
REFERENCES A. MHQ-5023 -- Request for Emergency Coverage Plans
B. FBIS/Vienna 10031 (Mar 85) -- Austrian Bureau
Emergency Coverage Plan
C. FBIS/London 91559 (Apr 85) -- Response to Ref B.
D. Nicosia Memo (25 Mar 85) -- Nicosia Coverage of
Vienna Commitments
E. Bonn 88187 (Apr 85) -- Cologne Unit response to
Ref B.
1. Attached is the finalized emergency coverage plan for Austria
Bureau. The plan closely follows the draft dated 25 July 1985
submitted by Austria Bureau. Comments or corrections are
solicited.
2. MOD will be adhering to the 6-month update schedule for these
plans, as stated in Ref A. Accordingly, the next update of this
plan will be due in September 1986. Austria Bureau may wirefile
suggested updates at that time.
Attachment:
AU Emergency Coverage Plan
cc: Ch/AU, Ch/CU, Ch/LD, Ch/NC, Ch/WSS, MOD Files (PLAN 10-5),
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AUSTRIA BUREAU EMERGENCY COVERAGE PLAN
In the event of an interruption in Austria Bureau's operations
and subject to changes depending on the situation at the time:
1. LONDON Bureau would assume the following coverage (Class A
coverage underlined):
a. 1) Albania: Tirana DS, Tirana ATA English;
2) Bulgaria: Sao is DS, Soda B En lis ;
3) Romanian: Bu arest DS, GERPRES English;
4) Yugoslavia: Be ra a DS;
5) Poland: Polis central press (by PMU);
6) Italy: Rome ANSA English;
7) USSR: Soviet journals now covered by AU to be picked
up by PMU (only KOMMUNIST is Class A); Moscow Albanian/
Bulgarian/Romanian ana iev DS Ukrainian (these lower
priority casts to be picked up after transfer of AU monitors;
their coverage could be dispensed with in short-term
situations). In a long-term outage, PMU would acquire
subscriptions to East European publications now covered by
Austria.
b. Personnel shifts: Two Albanian, one Polish, two
Bulgarian, two Romanian, and four Russian/Ukranian monitors; two
editors; and two teletypists.
a. 1) Phone patch to London Bureau casts from Tirana,
Sofia, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Kiev domestic services (BBC
may be able to receive Belgrade and Sofia in the evenings);
2) Assume Austria Bureau's coverage of Paris AFP English.
c. Equipment needed: None.
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3. Cologne Unit would take:
a. GDR central press currently covered by Austria Bureau
(with emphasis on NEUES DEUTSCFII,AND).
4. LOSSES would include: Field bureau coverage of all press from
Eastern Europe with the exception of the GDR (available in Cologne)
and Poland (currently subscribed to by PMU); Prague and Budapest
television services; TANJUG Serbo-Croatian; daytime coverage of
Budapest, Bratislava, Zagreb, and some Prague domestic service casts;
all coverage of Austrian media.
5. ALTERNATIVES and Uncertanties:
a. Should it prove impossible for chief and deputy chief to
remain at bureau, they could usefully be transferred to London
Bureau.
b. Relocating one Bulgarian, two Czech, one Romanian, two
Serbo-Croatian, and two Hungarian monitors to Washington to help
with perishable material from the press of those countries is a
useful possibility. Alternatively, these monitors could also be
sent to London to process faxed material received from Prod Group.
6. Vulnerability of CObMUNICATIONS and ELECTRIC POWER:
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