INPUT TO CIPC STUDY ON NFIP SUPPORT TO CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-01147R000100070053-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: July 7, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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MH4ORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
CIA member IPC Working Group
FBIS-1125/86
7 July 1986
D/FBIS Chrono
Deputy Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
Input to CIPC Study on NFIP Support to Contingency
Operations
1. FBIS offers broad support to military contingency operations
around the world. FBIS bureaus directly provide military commands
with information on political/military developments, including
alerts. Some 200 military commands and units, at their request,
receive materials from FBIS field bureaus on topics ranging from
immediate messages on worldwide military actions, mobilizations, and
coups to speeches on disarmament and articles on epidemiology. The
information in these messages provides basic intelligence, updates on
developing situations, and assessments of any action taken. Recent
terrorist actions, including the Achille Lauro and the hijacking in
Lebanon, and the U.S. strike on Libya are examples of incidents where
FBIS field reportage has provided early information of interest to
military and intelligence planners.
2. On request, FBIS Headquarters personnel provide special
translation and analytic services to military components. Translation
services include maps, Bloc articles on military theory, and articles
from technical journals from around the world. Analytical articles of
special interest to military consumers include careful comparisons of
current Soviet disarmament proposals with their proposals in the
past. Selected analyses are filed direct to field and FBIS wire
consumers.
3. FBIS bases its support to military components on official
requirements lists, but revises requirements to meet changing
situations as crises develop. FBIS also periodically asks for
revalidation of consumer requirements. For fast-breaking events, FBIS
works closely with operations centers in CIA and other IC offices.
Both the NMIC and the NMCC are consumers of the FBIS wire service, and
they in turn feed the FBIS product to ad hoc working groups and task
forces via pony lines. Recent examples of NMCC use of FBIS materials
include a 3 July DPRK report of an SR-71 overflight violation and a
2 July KCNA report of a Soviet fleet visit to the DPRK, both of which
were used in briefings to the Joint Chiefs. Earlier examples include
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a report run by FBIS from Libyan media threatening destruction to the
U.S. fleet if it dared cross the "line of death" in the Gulf of Sidra.
4. FBIS is currently engaged in a modernization program which
will provide more consumers with rapid electronic dissemination of
FBIS items of interest to them. Plans include real-time television
transmission from around the world, rapid transmission of fax
reproductions of newspapers to Washington consumers, and automaton of
FBIS files to permit quick thematic searches and profiling of consumer
requirements. FBIS has been involved in discussions with DOD elements
to ascertain how its modernization effort can be coordinated with DOD
plans and made available to DOD elements.
5. The major problem of support in crisis situations is that
communications facilities are seldom sufficient to get all important
information to consumers in timely fashion. Overloading of
communications links often results in long delays in priority traffic,
and even immediate FBIS messages may not get to consumers in time to
take action in fast-breaking incidents. Communications upgrades are
25X1 urgently needed.
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FBIS/Opsl (7Ju186)
Distribution:
Orig - Addressee
1 - PGC corres file
1 - D/FBIS chrono
2 - C/Ops
2 - FBIS Registry
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