REQUEST FOR IMPACT ALLOCATION - POSITION DK-034, (SANITIZED)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-00733R000200260059-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: November 4, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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4 November 1985
i fl IORANDUl.1 FOR: Chief, Position i lanagement and Compensation
Division, OP/DDA
THhOUGH: Director, Foreign Broadcast information Service
re Personnel and Training Branch, FBIS
SUBJECT: Request for Impact Allocation - Position DK-034,
REFERENCE: FBI Staffing Complement dtd 2 Aug 84
1. Vie request that position DK-034, Operations Group, Monitoring
Operations Division be designated as a GS-13 impact allocation position
on the FBlS Staffing Complement.
2. ionitoring international broadcasts is an extremely esoteric
field, and there are very few practitioners of it in
outside of FB1S, WA, and the BBC Monitoring Service. and
chief broadcast information officers o
DDSt;T/Fi31S/Operations Group/ilonitoring Operations Division, are expert
practitioners in this field. They have developed their expertise through
long years of experience in monitoring and cruising at FBIS field bureaus
and in Headquarters and through the considerable knowledge they nave
acquired of satellite communications, radio and television monitoring,
and other aspects of broadcast monitoring. More important, though, they
have an intense desire to master the intricacies of their field as well
keen minds that can utilize the information they have acquired.
3. The chief broadcast information officers are the foremost
authorities of FBIS in the field of international broadcast monitoring
and are called upon to offer expert advice to FBIS management, the
Agency, and other U.S. Government agencies. They must also offer
analysis and judgments regarding Agency covert operations. Each must be
an archivist, researcher, writer, and broadcasting expert arid be able to
produce reports under short deadlines during crisis situations. Eacli of
them iias repeatedly snown that he is fully capable of fulfilling the many
demanding tasks and assignments ne is given.
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4.I has more than 35 years' experience in international
broadcast monitoring and has a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of
all facets of FBIS technical data collection. in preparing requests for
OGC rulings, the FBIS Propriety officer will often consult with Mr.
for background on international copyright law and the impact of
this law on FBIS collection and dissemination efforts. is
also an authority on FBIS' many contracts with foreign news agencies. lie
was the key member of the FBIS team that recently negotiated the AGEiiCE
FRANCE PRESS contract for the use, of AFP at several FBIS overseas
bureaus. He also provides advice on the most efficient use of the
multiple press agencies at various bureaus. is the resident
expert on international meetings and agreements on broadcast frequency
allocations and broadcasting policies as they affect world media
monitored by FBIS. Decision making on these areas was previously handled
by FBIS management-level officers who rotate( I hrouga MOD senior
positions, but over the past decade has acquired so much
expertise in these areas that these responsibilities have devolved almost
entirely on him. As a result, senior managers have generally confined
themselves to evaluating the final options for action that lie has
identified or have put the stamp of approval on his recommendations.
5.I Ihas been the prime mover for the introduction and
development of automation in MOD. He has been almost solely responsiule
for all MOD-automated publications. lie has created programs to automate
information retrieval from large data bases on agency main-frame
computers. In recognition of his work in this area, he received a
Special Achievement Award earlier this year for his work on the
computerized handling of the Field Coverage Schedule and the FBIS
Editorial handbook. lie is also working closely with Production Group on
the formulation of automation programs for its publications.
6~ Ihas almost 30 years' experience in international
broadcasting and is thoroughly familiar with all aspects of FLUS'
technical data collection operations. For the past several years he has
specialized in satellite and television monitoring and as become FBIS'
resident authority in this field. He was the first in FBIS to research
satellite transmissions, having worked witn the satellite monitoring
facilities at London, Okinawa, and Panama.
7. As more and more communications satellites are launched and as
Fi3IS has had to devote more and more of its resources to satellite
monitoring, it has been ciard-pressed to Kee pace with, this fast-growing
STAT field. Against this background, task has become
increasingly complex, demanding a constant effort to remain abreast of
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SUBJECT: Request for Impact Allocation - Position DK-031,
satellite developments and innovations. Correspondingly, his expertise
has become ever increasingly valuable. He is constantly called upon by
management to provide advice on the feasibility and usefulness of new
plans to improve FBIS satellite monitoring. He has provided research and
analysis to support management planning for the building of the ROSE[
system, identifying what media sources (radio, television, radioteletype,
and pressfax) were available on satellite, which ones were of
intelligence value, where they were to be monitored, and what specialized
technology was required. Recently lie has been called on to provide data
for the start-up on the FBIS TVRO dish at Langley and to begin target
planning for a satellite monitoring facility in Europe.
3. has helped to formulate guidance for both MOD and
the FBIS field bureaus on the collection, collation, and analysis of
satellite transmissions, and he has trained cruiser trainees in the
monitoring of these transmissions. Such training is vital to compiling
an up-to-date data base on the rapidly expanding field of satellite
communications and to FBIS' rapidly expanding mission in this field.
without this data base, FBIS could not make effective use of its
satellite monitoring facilities to cover foreign media. The use of
communications satellites by foreign public media has grown from nothing
to a vast field in just the past decade, an has been one
of the few authorities FBIS management could rely on from the very
beginning. He made himself expert in this new field before almost anyone
recognized that it existed or that it was really significant for HIS
operations.
6 NOV '1985
Director, Foreign Broadcast information Service Date
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SUBJECT: RPrnipst for Tmnnrt Allnration - Position Dh-034,
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