A MODEST PROPOSAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP94-00798R000200310030-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 1, 1988
• Content Type: CABLE

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C O N F I D E N T I A L 2116O1Z NOV 88 STAFF
CITE FBIS/LONDON 10440
TO: FBIS..
SUBJECT: A MODEST PROPOSAL
1. WE HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTION
TO THE PROBLEM OF INSUFFICIENT EDITORIAL STRENGTH AND LACK OF
SPACE IN LONDON BUREAU AT A TIME OF RESOURCE SCARCITY. THE
BEST SOLUTION THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH IS THAT WE ONCE AGAIN
TAKE A LOOK AT THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE'MWR BEING PRODUCED IN
LONDON.
2. WE ARE AWARE THAT THE MWR HAS DEVOTED READERS AND
SERVES A REAL REQUIREMENT. HOWEVER, IT ABSORBS THE EFFORTS OF
TWO EDITORS, WHO COULD OTHERWISE BE USED TO DO SOVIET REGIONALS
OR HELP WITH THE OVERLOAD AT THE EDITORIAL DESK, BOTH MORE
ESSENTIAL TO THE FBIS MISSION THAN USING SCARCE FIELD RESOURCES
FOR A NON-COLLECTION TASK.
~3. CEASING BUREAU PRODUCTION OF THE MWR WOULD ALSO FREE
SOME MUCH-NEEDED SPACE AND EVEN MORE NEEDED PORTS ON THE WANG
SYSTEM, WHICH COULD THEN BE USED BY A REGIONAL SPECIALIST OR
ANOTHER RUSSIAN MONITOR AS WELL AS PARTTIME FOR TV MONITORING,
WHICH IS NOW BEING DONE IN THE CHIEF EDITOR'S OFFICE AT THE
COST OF CONSIDERABLE DISRUPTION.
4. WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR TESTING THE WATERS ON WHETHER THE
MWR CAN BE ELIMINATED OR SHIFTED TO WASHINGTON (OR EVEN ANOTHER
BUREAU SUCH AS NICOSIA) THIS MOVE IS THE EASIEST AND CHEAPEST
METHOD OF GIVING LONDON BUREAU SOME BADLY NEEDED EDITORIAL
RELIEF. WE WOULD OFFER 0 A JOB AS AN EDITOR OR AS RUSSIAN
REGIONALS SPECIALIST, THOUGH I IMAGINE HE MIGHT CHOOSE TO LEAVE
US,AT SOME POINT. PLEASE CONSIDER, SOUND OUT AND ADVISE.
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