DCI'S ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-01147R000100010059-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: January 10, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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FBIS-0011/86
10 January 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Planning and Resources Staff, DDS$T
Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
SUBJECT: DCI's Annual Report to Congress
REFERENCE: Your Memo, dtd 31 Dec 85, Same Subject
1. The following are the major world events which most
significantly impacted on FBIS operations in 1985. Our responses
are keyed to the considerations enumerated in your request.
2. Arms Negotiations
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
FBIS provided:
+New publication containing Soviet, European, and other
foreign media reporting and commentary on arms control issues
+Compendium of Soviet statements reflecting USSR position on a
nuclear test moratorium
C. Specific needs for intelligence on Soviet strategic systems
and support of arms control negotiations and verification.
FBIS provided:
+Policymakers with the first word of the Soviet announcement of
a unilateral moratorium on nuclear test explosions from a Soviet
satellite pressfax intercept
+Significant media texts and analyses of Soviet treatment of
the Geneva arms negotiations
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SUBJECT: DCI's Annual Report to Congress
D. Support for operational forces.
FBIS provided:
+Source materials and analyses to the U.S. negotiators and the
White House
3. Philippines
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
FBIS provided:
+Information on mediumwave broadcasting in the Philippines from
reception surveys conducted at Clark AFB, Baguio, Cebu, and
other sites in Southeast Asia
F. The challenge to collection.
FBIS provided:
+Translations from organ of the Communist Party of the
Philippines
+Surveys on locations from which Philippine media can best be
monitored
4. Gorbachev's Succession
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
FBIS provided:
+Regular media reports to the major Washington operations centers
+Vice President Bush with a political profile of Gorbachev
based on his public statements during the past 15 years
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SUBJECT: DCI's Report to Congress
H. Communications.
FBIS provided:
+Videotapes of Soviet media coverage of events connected with
succession
5. Latin American Violence
D. Support for operational forces.
FBIS provided:
+Coverage of Salvadoran insurgent radios in support of NSA and
U.S. authorities in the region
F. Challenge to collection.
FBIS provided:
+Monitoring of satellite-transmitted public media, including
television broadcasts from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil,
Chile, and Peru, all heretofore unavailable to FBIS
+Translations and dissemination of censored Managua newspaper
items
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
FBIS provided:
+Increased coverage of southern African targets including
Harare and Lusaka through use of a new remote antenna site in
Swaziland
+Videotapes of selected Johannesburg television newscasts
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SUBJECT: DCI's Annual Report to Congress
+Daily summary of South African press
+President Reagan with President Botha's 1SAug speech
7. Terrorism
A. People.
FBIS provided:
+Overnight language assistance to translate into English
"Achille Lauro" design documents in French, Italian, and Japanese
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
FBIS provided:
+Live coverage of Italian television via the Headquarters
satellite dish during the "Achille Lauro" hijacking and
extensive media coverage of countries involved
+Vice President Bush and Secretary Shultz with a roundup of
worldwide official reaction to the TWA hijacking
D. Support for operational forces.
FBIS provided:
+24-hour coverage of Mideast radios for information on
critical developments in the TWA hijacking incident
8. Mexican Economy
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
FBIS provided:
+Treasury Department and IC consumers with text of President de
la Madrid's state of the nation speech from Mexican television
via satellite, the first time FBIS has been able to monitor the
annual economic speech in real time
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D. Support for operational forces.
FBIS provided:
+Videotapes from Mexican television of the September
earthquake to Southern Command Staff officers, who were
investigating possible disaster relief assistance
9. Technology Transfer
A. People.
FBIS provided:
+Additional resources for an S$T center to centralize
exploitation of open source S&T literature. FBIS is continuing
to recruit linguists with scientific and technological
backgrounds to staff the center.
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
FBIS provided:
+Translation of the White Paper "Soviet Acquisition of
Militarily Significant Western Technology: An Update" into
eight foreign languages and roundup of foreign reaction to the
document for Agency officials
E. Explosion of collected data.
FBIS provided:
+Greater access to foreign commercial data bases through
newly-established S$T units in Antwerp and Milan and continued
expansion of operations at its S$T unit in Japan
10. Geneva Summit
B. Consumer needs for intelligence on continuing problems and
new issues.
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SUBJECT: DCI's Annual Report to Congress
FBIS provided:
+Briefing materials to President Reagan prior to the summit
DDSFT/FBTS/E &P~ (1OJan86)
Distribution:
Original - Addressee
1 - D/FBIS Chrono
1 - I-BM Corres File
1 - PO'RA
1 - E$PS Chrono
1 - FBIS Registry
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