TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR COMMITTEE ON BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000300030038-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: December 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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OPERATIM COORDINATING BOARD,
- Washington 25,D
955
2/55
2. Radio broadcasting; end television
increasingly important as media of COMMUnielitteni inAgyrsess idu.
The President's Conmittes-on International InformeldciiAotivAtie, re0cm.
mended in its report to the President, dat44 Juns .90' 1953? that the
? S. S. should be prepared to provide assistance t4rfti vision industries
? in other countries %hilt, those industries *re in the formative 'stages.
The 1954 ODM/CB (Schramm) survey also point.d out the
of overseas television and the need for, 01:7;114e:mtive!Par:::e
of broadcaetisg imdertskon by or vith the assiitantie-
cooperation
?ind other
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g. Develop, on an inter-agency coordinated basis, such other
proposals and reports on broadcasting and television as
may be assigned by the Board or the Board Assistants.
4. The Technical Panel on International Broadcasting (TPIB) shall
continue to be responsible for technical matters pertaining to international
radio and TV broadcasting. Coordination between the CCD Committee on
Broadcasting and Television and the TPIB will be achieved through the
Chairman of the two groups, 'or when advisable, by a joint action of the
two groups. The Chairman of each group shall be kept informed and shall
attend meetings or otherwise participate in the work of the other group to
the extant necessary to assure proper coordination between the two groups.
5. The Committee shall consist of representatives ofs
? a. United States Iaformation Agency, Chairman.
b. Department of State.
C, Central Intelligence Agency.
? d. International Cooperation Administration.
e. OCB Staff.
? f. Other agencies when appropriate, asi determined by the
OCB Executive Officer.
The Department of Defense will participate as neoessary on an ad hoc basis.
6. The Conatttee shall be guided by the 006 Detailed Operating
Procedures" as stated in Pert II of the OCB Handbook, dated September 13,
1955, and by supplementary instructions issued fram time to time by the
Executive Officer.
7. Policy guidance channels between the Department of State and the
U.S. Information Amoy are not affected by-these Terms of Reference.
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