WORKING GROUP - COMMITTEE ON BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (COBAT)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000300030028-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 13, 1956
• Content Type: MIN

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OPERATIONS COORDIbITING BOARD
Washington 25, D.C.
MEMORANDUM OF MEETING: Working Group..- Committee on Broadcasting and
Television (COBAT)
First Meeting held 9:00 A.M.
January 13, 1956, COB Conference Room
Working Group Members Present;
USIA, - Frederick A. Long, Acting Chairman
CIA - C. Lloyd Egner
ICA - Gerald Winfield
State - T. H, E. Nesbitt, Chairman TPIB
Defense .- James J. Kelleher (Observer)
COB Leslie S. Brady
Ralph Busick, Staff Representative
Marjorie Denny, Staff Assistant
In the absence abroad of the Chairman, Mr. Robert E. Button, the USIA,
alternate chaired the first meeting.
The Staff Representative supplied the background which led up to the
formation of the Committee on Broadcasting and Television (COBAT). An
informal exploratory discussion was held on current and urgent problems,
involving US concern and interest in European television, especially the
situation in Helsinki and Vienna.. The Committee considered possible approaches
to an ultimate U.S. policy respecting global TV, and agreed that many of the
ideas expressed around the table should be incorporated into a paper for the
Board Assistants. The first order of business will be study of the USIA
paper on Television in Europe, prepared at the request of the Board Assistants.
As this paper supplying basic background information is more or less a status
report on the TV-in-Europe problem, it was agreed it should be broadened
into a policy paper including contributions from all the members of COBAT.
It was decided that the Committee should endeavor to meet once a week
in view of the preoent backlog of work falling within its Terms of Reference.
The next meeting will be held Monday, January 23rd, 2:00 F.M. at CCB,
708 Jackson Place, N.W.
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/alph Busick
Staff Representative
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