FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE NEWSLETTER

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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1 January 1985
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NOTICE
Fieed Buneaus ane teminded that cop..e6 o~ this Nem.eetteh.
,5howed be de6ttoyed a6ten aeading by U.S. St6 emp.eoyeu.
Thus New.s.ee te,'L is not be tce ta,%ned in jie.ed bu teaws .
1 January 1985
ROSET, INTERNET PROGRESS
The year 1984 was a significant one for FBIS satellite monitoring,
and 1985 promises to bring further progress in modernizing FBIS collection.
The inauguration of the high-capacity, two-dish ROSET (Receive Only Satellite
Earth Terminal) facility in Panama was the beginning of the second generation
of FBIS satellite monitoring, following the initial ROSET installations in
Britain and Okinawa. Already the Panama installation has discovered numerous
unique transmissions of media material, and promises to significantly enhance
our ability to monitor foreign television. At the same time, negotiations
are continuing with the Thai Government for installations of a Panama-type
ROSET at Bang Ping, where FBIS shares an antenna field with Thai Government
agencies. Although the Middle East ROSET is currently on hold due to budget
limitations FBIS hopes to have funds for this facility restored in a future
budget.
INTERNET, the high-capacity communications system that will link FBIS ROSET
bureaus and enable the transmission of live video to Headquarters, is also
moving forward. Phase I of INTERNET will link Caversham and Panama with
Headquarters; initial steps are being taken in FY 1985, with completion of
Phase I projecte r FY 1986. Other phases of INTERNET are scheduled for
future years.
LIVE FOREIGN TV AT LANGLEY
In 1983 FBIS proposed a domestic monitoring facility that would, among
other things, enable FBIS to monitor foreign television live from satellites
in the Washington area. At about the same time a commerical study was made
to determine the value of foreign television for intelligence purposes,
proposed by FBIS and managed by ORD. Although the domestic monitoring
facility was eliminated in the budgetary process, both ROSET and INTERNET
aspects of FBIS Modernization have received support by higher management, and
during the past year numerous DI analysts began taking increased interest
in foreign television. A DI television users working group was formed.
In early December 1984 the D/FBIS was asked by five DI office directors to
provide live foreign television at Langley, from monitoring of satellites.
A study is now being conducted to determine the feasibility of providing
such service, which would be compatible eventual deliveries of
television through the INTERNET system.
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COVERAGE OF KUWAITI AIRLINER HIJACKING
The Wire Services Staff provided key Community watch offices--
particularly a State Department working group at the State Operations
Center--exhaustive. coverage of events surrounding the hijacking of a Kuwaiti
airliner to Tehran. The open watch on Iranian and Kuwaiti media instituted
by the London Bureau/BBC and Gulf Bureau permitted Wire editors to relay primary
source reports within an hour of broadcast to OCPAS, State, and the White House
Situation Room. Official Iranian announcements carried by Tehran radio and the
Iranian News Agency frequently preceded Western press agency reporting by 1 to
2 hours. In phone calls to the Wire Service on 9 December, the State working
group and White House Situation Room expressed thanks for FBIS' timely
coverage of the crisis, noting the paucity of information from other sources.F
ROSET SCOOP
FBIS ROSET monitoring scored a clean scoop on 21 December when the death
of Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov was revealed in a Soviet press transmission
monitored at Caversham. SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA carried the first official Soviet
announcement on Ustinov's death on page one, which was spotted in the monitored
facsimile transmission. The item was filed by London Bureau at 1713 GMT; the
first TASS report was transmitted by TASS at 1754 GMT. A check of watch
offices indicated that this was the first official word from the Soviets to
reach the U.S. Government in Washington, so far as we could learn.. There had
been rumors of Ustinov's death earlier in the day from Western press agencies.
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at Headquaniens on 20 Vecembe,'. Mote than 175 FB1Selco attended the Je-te,
heed in the 4th 4-eoot Con etence Room and ha.CL at Key Building. Somewhat
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NEWS FROM THE BUREAUS
NICOSIA, AMMAN SECURITY
On 4 November Nicosia Bureau picked up from Beirut Voice of Lebanon
a report on an Islamic Al-Jihad threat to carry out an operation against
U.S. interests in the Middle East within the following 48 hours. This
resulted in an immediate State message to all Near Eastern and South Asian
posts citing e BIS report and recommending they take appropriate
precautions. 77~
As a result of the threat and fears that U.S. facilities in Cyprus
might be targeted, the Embassy in Nicosia recommended that the Bureau reduce
to skeleton staffing 4-7 November. FBIS area emergency coverage procedures
were implemented, with London, Gulf, Amman and Tel Aviv bureaus assuming much
of Nicosia Bureau's coverage. Other bureaus in the area, following coordination
with Embassy security officials, sent home nonessential personnel, but were
able to remain fully operational. F-1
At the request of several key consumers, FBIS is looking at additional
ways of improving coverage of the Philippines. As part of this effort, the
chief, Okinawa Bureau, accompanied by an NSA representative, visited Clark
AFB for discussions 12-15 December. He met with U.S. mission and military
officials to plan for improved radio coverage of the Philippines. Arrange-
ments were made for a reception survey early next year looking at the option
of crisis age from USG-controlled premises, including sites outside
Manila.
PANAMA SATELLITE MONITORING
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In its first week of satellite monitoring, the newly operational
ROSET at Panama Bureau viewed eight satellites ranging from the 14 degree
west GORIZONT (Soviet) to the 104.5 degree west ANIK (Canadian). Television
programming from the Soviet Union, East Europe, France, Spain, Canada, and
Latin America has been identified. Radios monitored on satellite thus far
include broadcasts from the USSR, Brazil, France, Peru, Canada, and Greenland.
Press agencies found include not only the expected Cuban PRENSA LATINA, TASS,
and some 13 European agencies, but also a Nicaraguan press agency (ANN) and
material from Salvadoran and Guatemalan opposition press agencies being carried
over the circuits from Hamburg to ~mrana on INTELSAT. The scanning of satellites
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NEW CONTRACT WITH AFP
After months of negotiation, FBIS signed a contract on 11 December
with the French Press Agency (AFP) for worldwide coverage of the agency
at the bureaus. AFP is a major source for fast-breaking news, especially
in Francophone countries, and is also a useful alert mechanism.
IVORY COAST USE OF FBIS PRODUCT
The Abidjan bureau chief met recently with the chief of the Ivory Coast
Press and Information Service, who told him that FBIS was the "only source"
of general foreign press reporting for the Ivorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The ministry is interested in quicker receipt of the bureau. file which is
given the Ivory Coast Government as part of the original agreement allowing
FBIS to set up a bureau in the Ivory Coast. F7
+ Key West Bureau dubbed and forwarded to J-2/COMUSFORCARIB a copy of an
18 October broadcast by Havana television of an 8-minute video report of
military-naval maneuvers by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces held in central
and western Cuba in May and June. J-2 intended to use the videotape for
briefing Rear Admiral Hedges, U.S. Forces Caribbean commander, as some of the
military equipment shown is relatively new to the Cuban inventory.
+ USIA/Radio Marti project staffers have asked Key West Bureau to supply
them with duplicates of its taping of Havana television.
+ In November Hong Kong provided an unusual number of ad hoc services
to Consulate offices not normally served. A PRC media report that China
had discontinued production of certain chemicals which had been making their
way into illegal drugs in the United States was provided to DEA. Several
PRC and Hong Kong media reports on business developments were of special
interest to the Foreign Commercial Service. The bureau responded to queries
from both INS and the Consular Section nn medin ports on Vietnamese and
Chinese refugee and immigration issues.
+ At the request of the MBFR delegation, Austrian Bureau's Hungarian
team translated interviews by Ambassador Glitman and his Soviet counterpart
which appeared on Budapest television's "Periscope" program. The delegation
provided the Bureau with a tape of the interview broadcast on Budapest TV 2,
+ Special delivery of Tel Aviv Bureau's Hebrew file was arranged from
16 to 18 October to help USIS meet an early morning deadline for a media
reaction report on Secretary Weinberger's visit.
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+ Panama Bureau maintained close liaison with local embassy consumers on
the selection and processing of material covering the 11 October inauguration
of President Nicolas Ardito Barletta. At embassy request, the bureau filed
to Secretary Shultz' plane a report of a speech by General Noriega. The
Secretary was en route to Panama for the Barletta inauguration.
+ Panama Bureau's dedicated lines to Central America were employed twice
in November to provide reciprocal assistance to two of the U.S. embassies
where the remote sites are located. On 1 November the bureau relayed to the
U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa a Managua radio recording of the text of a
Nicaraguan Defense Ministry communique condemning overflights of the country
by U.S. SR-71 aircraft and stating that the aircraft were based on Honduran
airfields. On 13 November the bureau provided the embassy in Managua with
the Spanish-language text of an IPS rejort~ing that the FSLN had asked
all U.S. citizens to leave Nicaragua.
+ On 27 October, Acting Charge George Lambrakis alerted Swaziland
Bureau personnel to televised speeches by Swazi Prime Minister Bhekimpi and
two other leaders. The British High Commission, which had originally alerted
Lambrakis, asked for and was given a copy of the 6-take finished item.
Neither embassy has any staff officer with Siicwati capability, the reason
the bureau's capabilities are relied on.
+ Swaziland Bureau began coverage in late November of South African
television fulfilling a longstanding request of the U.S. Embassy in
Pretoria.
+ Paraguay Bureau helped USIS set up the mission's "U.S. election night
headquarters" at the Binational Center to cover the results on 6 November,
providing equipment as well as technical manpower and advice. USIS expressed
appreciation particularly for the contributions made by the bureau's
technicians as well as by a teletypist and driver.
VISITS, BRIEFINGS
Paul Drew, director-designate of
Radio Marti, USIA, and Art Manning,
VOA Matathon relay facility chief,
visited Key West Bureau on 25
October for discussion of possible
FBIS sup of the Radio Marti
project.
Cdr James Haney, Navy reservist
attached to J-2, COMUSFORCARIB,
visited Key West Bureau on 16
October for orientation.
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On 21 November, two staffers from
the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
accompanied by a State Department
escort officer and two embassy
officials, visited Panama Bureau. The
Congressional staffers were looking
at security of U.~.insta_l~ations
in Latin America.
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bureau operations.
Political Section, visited Panama
Bureau on 2 October for a review of
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Nnumber for a brief briefing and tour.
Col Han Doo Sik and Maj Ernest J.
-Comer, both from Headquarters
Detachment, ROK/U.S. Combined Field
Army, visited Seoul Bureau on 16
High Wycombe Base Commander Major
Todd visited London Bureau o
October for familiarization.
chief on 24 October.
Wing Commander John David, new UK air
attache to Hungary and Romania, was
briefed by the London deDuty
Ron Boggs, new chief of the Hong
Kong INS office, visited i-1-0
Kong Bureau on 24 October
Eugene Dorris, new Consulate
economics officer recently
reassigned from Beijing, visited
Hong Kong Bureau on 6 November,
and John Tkacik, deputy chief of
the Consular on visited on
19 November.e~ti
David Gibson, an analyst in the
USIA Office of Research, visited
Gulf Bureau on S Octoher_fo~ a
tour and briefing.
David Cox, new deputy director of the
State Department's Office of Southern
Cone Affairs, visited Para a Bureau
on 5 October for a briefing.
Staff Sergeant Arevalos and Sergeant
Benner, 6990th Electronic Security
Group, Electronic Combat Center, Kadena
AB, visited Okinawa Bureau on 2 October
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John Dickerson, of the DOD Special
Representative's office, Torii Station,
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for DOD Spec Rep Yokota AFB and 5th Air
Force CSG, visited Okinawa Bureau on 17
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Col Walter L. Cressler, Commander, U.S.
Army Field Station Okinawa, visited the
bureau on 31 October for orientation.
The chief and deputy chief of the
embassy's Political/Military Section'
.TicitPd Austria Bureau on 8 November.
PRODUCTION GROUP DEVELOPMENTS
Numerous Production Group division and FLASC officers participated in
providing rapid translations of several versions of the manual on
"Psychological Operations in Guerrilla War" for the Office of the Inspector
General. This was done in su ort of the White House-requested investigation
of the origin of the manual.
Many Production Group officers and JPRS independent contractors cooperated
in completing translation of a 1,243-page Italian indictment of Agca's
accomplices in the attempted assassination of the Pope. F
On 28 November-- ELAAD translated into French a letter from the DCI to
the same day.
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On 25-28 October,)
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of ELAAD attended the.First International
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the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in Toronto where
d a paper on the relationship between colloquial and standard
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All FOLIO material on China, previously published infrequently in four
separate JPRS reports, has been merged into a single series in a move designed
to considerably decrease the time lag in cow receipt of this material.
The first issue was published in October.
ANALYSIS GROUP ACTIVITIES
include Soviet domestic policy, Soviet foreign policy, and East Europe.
Effective 19 November, the Middle East Branch was transferred to the
China/Third World Division in the Analysis Group organizational structure
approved by PMCD. China/Third World Division thus encompasses the China,
Third World, and Middle East branches. USSR/Europe Division's purview dill
While continuing its pilot project with SAFE to define requirements for
an automated storage and retrieval system, Analysis Group is also moving
ahead on a variety of individual file segments that will operate relatively
soon on ODP computers and later be integrated into a more comprehensive system.
Design Specification and other documentary material was completed in November
and programming is now under way on contract for a Foreign Commentators
System targeted for on-line testing in the spring of 1985. As a start, this
system will convert into electronic form information on Soviet and Polish
commentators currently maintained on cards as well as data on North Korean
and Egyptian commentators. Other countries will be added as resources permit.
The file will record each commentator's position and title, specialty,
articles authored and where they may be found. The information will be
printed out quarterly, in easily readable format, for distribution to
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interested FBIS field and headquarters components and to consumers.
Other files scheduled for automation include an indexing system that
will computerize the FBIS China Index, produced on cards for AG and now
in demand elsewhere in the China analysis community. AG's USSR/Europe
Division is developing a pilot index of certain Soviet political materials
in response to an NIO requirement. The computer program will be designed
to`accommodate this and other material. Also under way is an upgrade of the
PASKEY system, which will enhance search capabilities and permit incorporation
of a new PASKEY file on East Europe. F-1
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Chief, Research Staff AG's ADP coordinator, is 25X1
overseein these ro'ects and working with the contractors. and USSR 25X1
analyst have also been working with an ORD contractor 25X1
developing an advanced text-search technique--in the sphere of Artificial
Intelligence-- that may presage a future generation of an FBIS storage and
retrieval system. This contractor is using PASKEY disarmament codes and an
electronic file of FBIS raw copy to attempt to identify, through "rule-based
retrieval," thematic passages that cannot be retrieved in a conventional keyword
system. Results so far have been remarkably promising, bearing in mind that
sophisticated computer search capability of this kind is far from state-of-
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chief of the China/Third World Division, briefed the DDSFTT
and o ice directors on 11 December on analysis of Chinese media. n
Ambassador Jack Scanlon, who will head the U.S. delegation to the CSCE
"Cultural Forum" in Budapest, asked AG for information on the Soviet position
on the conference. AG passed on to him a number of Soviet commentaries and
arranged for future Soviet ial on the conference to be transmitted
directly to the delegation . -
Two TRENDS articles were supplied to the Arms Control Intelligence Staff
at its request to assist in assessing the Soviet reaction to the President's
reelection and the Soviet arms control posture .
In December, a TRENDS article on Moscow preparation for arms talks was
sent to Secretary of State Shultz, who was in Brussels attending a NATO
Foreign Ministers conference, and another article on Pakistan was sent
directly to Secretary of Defense Weinberger. A condensed version of the
latter article was also included by DDI/NESA in its Afghan sitrep. The
Cuban portion of a November TRENDS article was reprinted in DDI/ALA's
Latin America Review.)
television standards converter goes into regular operation.
should accommodate the expected increase in activity when MOD's new
MOD MOVE
The Monitoring Operations Division moved into new quarters on the 6th
floor of Key Building on 10-11 December. The cruising training room has
also been moved to the new area. Television equipment, which previously
shared the old training room, now has a separate room of its own. This
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made by the Executive Ditectm,
AG ' tL'tee1 Iwa,o presented the Ivrte.P&gence Medan
o6 Men.%t at a cetcemony on 13 Novembe,. The a/caev tittion way
the Careen I n te, ,ig
DDSST Evan Hineman.
in a 5ma l ce>cemony in the EBIS Di)cec.to/L',s
netviced tom Production Group, was presented
at a ce/temony on 28 Novembeh by
who tetuced necent.y a4teh an Agency careetc o4
29 yea/u, ma-s awarded the In-teL gence Commendation Medal on
22 Decembetc. T h e ` presentation w a y s made at /
SA/Opus, woo awarded an Excepti.onat AccompU hmen-t
aware on 29 November jot his work in devee.oping and J.mptementi.ng
the bone