CABLE TO FBIS WASH DC FROM FBIS LONDON UK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92-00053R000300100001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 7, 1978
• Content Type: CABLE

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LD071000 REF 40504 (ON MOGADISCiC INTERNATIONAL SERVICE SQUAOII. NEj
EAU HAS REPORTED THE FOLLOWING OPENING ANNOUNCEMEN'$ FOR MQQAD!;$CIO
BROADCASTS IN ENGLISH, AMHARIC AND ARASICI
ENGLISH (1100 GMT 5 D50); "THIS IS THE EXTERNAL SERVICE 00
RADIO MOGADISCIO+ THE VOICE OF THE SOMALI DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC#
BROADCASTING ON 3x, METER BAND""
AMHARIC (1330 GMT 6 DEC)I "THE VOICE OF THE SOMALI DEMQCRAT'!C
REPUBLIC RADIO, AMHARIC SECTION, BEGINS ITS DAILY AMHARIC PROGRAM
BROADCASTING FROM 1630 TO 2,730 ON THE 31 85, 41 AND 49 METER
PANDS'q" EAU ADDED A NOTE SAYING THAT "ALTHOUGH THE ABOVE
FREQUENCIES WERE GIVEN, THE AMHARIC PROGRAM WAS TRACED ONIPY ON 'NHS
31 METER BAND, THE 25 AND 41 METER BANDS ARE UNTRACSDj WHILE 'MB
49 METER BAND IS BROADCASTING THE SOMALI PROGRAM,"
ARABIC (1630 GMT 5 DEC)I "THE ARABIC SECTION OF THE RADIO QF
THE SOMALI DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC GREETS YOU AND IS 6ROADCA8'1N0:TTS
PROGRAM ON THE 31 METER BAND SHORTWAVE'" It12SZ DEC
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IN ITS LATEST COVERAGE SCHEDULE CHANGE$ THE BBC HAS CHANGSQ
MOOADISOIO DOMESTIC SERVICE IN ENGLISH TO THE "FOR ABROAD"
CATEGORY' AND ADDED MOGADIECIC IN SWAHILI 1535.54 OMT0 ALSO IN
THE "FOR ABROAD" CATEGORY (BOTH COVERED BY SAU$ THIS REFLECTS
MOGADISCIO PROGRAMMING AS SHOWN IN THE 8805 PRINTED SCHBPULE FOR
THE "SOMALI EXTERNAL SERVICES" DATED MARCH 1978, ACCORDING TQ TWE
REC, NQ BEAMS ARE ANNOUNCED FOR THE EXTERNAL SERVICE CASTS CAS
NONE ARE SHOWN IN THE MARCH 1978 PRINTED SCHEDULE) BUT THEY ARE
ASKING EAU TO C011FIRM THUSO' S N T PROPOSE TO USE
SOURCELINEI "MOGADISCIO INTERNATIONAL SERVICE IN CLANGUAGE);tt
WE WOULD THUS DROP THE SOURCELINE "MOGADISCIO IN AMHARIC TO STMIOAIA"
APPROVED BY WA123 OF 8 AUGUST 1977: 09/192OZ DEC
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