JORDAN BUREAU CRUISING PLAN FOR 1987

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP94-00798R000200210001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 3, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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December 1986
MJN 86 1.8
MEMORANDUM F=OR; Chief, Monitoring Operations Division
FROM . Chief, Jordan Bureau
SUBJECT : Jordan Bureau Cruising Flan for 1987
Jordan Bur'eau' cruising projects for the next 12 months will
be essentially geared toward carrying out a thorough survey of Gulf
and Arabian Peninsula transmitters and repeating the March 1985
survey at the new embassy site. The projects are:
1. Carrying out a thorough and comprehensive survey of the
entire Gulf and Arabian Peninsula broadcaSsat spectrum, including radios
recently adc:led to bureau coverage, with the view to updating fr'eyuenc i e
and transmission times and considering any new radios meriting coverage.
Conducting further checks on Riyadh television programs.
Previous checks at the bureau and one or two remote sites revealed
that. Riyadh television, which broadcasts on the same channel as
Damascus television, is overpowered by Damascus. Thorough checks are
planned:( at different remote sites in Amman to establish any improvement
in reception even with Damascus on the air.
3. Repeating the March 1985 cruising survey at the new
embassy s i t e . A battery-operated Sony OR(-.._ ;_ , :: 0 radio receiver was used
in the 1985 survey. The Middle E.ast regional engineer has recently
visited the site and is to supply the bureau with the antennas and/or"
survey.
other equipment needed to conduct a new
4. Covering the Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer Moscow changes as
usual and attempting, whenever possible, cruising checks on the
international broadcasts of Soviet regionals Ba(?::u, Yerevan, and Dushanbe,.
5. Carrying out routine cruising checks of programs included in
Jordan Bureau's emergency backstop coverage plans for Nicosia and London
Bureaus. In this regard special attention will be given to cruising
Tehran International Service Arabic which is still unmanitarable at
Jordan Bureau.
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