CABLE TO SECRETARY OF STATE FROM LONDON

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: June 13, 1956
• Content Type: CABLE

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ANG TELEGRAM Departznent of StateNIF
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FROM: LONDON
TO: Secretary of State
NO: 233, JULY 13, 6 P.M.
DEPTEL 7862
Control: 76'0r
Recd v ,
Li': .3, 1956
3:54 P.M.
Ibis copy has been reproduced 0 meet introit
weeds of 'CIL It must not be released or shown
to Iff person outside of CIL
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FONOFF POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF WHY SOVIETS STOPPED JAMMING
BBC RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SERVICES DEVELOPS FOUR LIKELY
RIASONS:
I. ',OVIET GESTURE TO SHOW THEMSELVES IN EARNEST OVER
INCREASING CONTACTS AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN USSR-UK.
2. BBC RUSSIAN BROADCASTS ON WHOLE RESTRAINED IN TONE
AND NOW RUSSIANS REPORTING WORLD NEWS MORE FREELY HAVE
LE3S TO FEAR FROM PENETRATION TRUTI1FUL WESTERN NEWS
BROADCASTS. THEREFORE FELT COULD AFFORD TO MAKE GESTURE.
3. MERELY RECIPROCITY SINCE UK NEVER JAMMED THEM.
4. ANXIOUS TO FORGE CLOSER LINKS WITH BBC ORDER GET
SOVIET MATERIAL USED ON BBC DOMESTIC SERVICES. THIS
EMERGED CLEARLY FROM RECENT BBC VISIT TO USSR.
FONOFF FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO kee6S FUTURE TRENDS.
POINTED OUT SOVIETS ATTEMPTED GET UK RECOGNIZE PRINCIPLE
OF JAMMING BY OFFERING BBC DELEGATION HALF-HOUR DAILY
FREE OF JAMMING. THIS BBC RESISTED (AT PRESENT BROADCAST
TWO HOURS DAILY IN RUSSIAN) BUT BBC AS GESTURE HAD ALREADY
REDUCED NUMBER OF FREQUENCIES ON RUSSIAN TRANSMISSIONS.
TAKING CARE TO'RETAIN THOSE WHICH GETTING THROUGH WITH
LEAST INTERFERENCE. POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING PROGRAM .
TIMES TO MORE SUITABLE HOURS ON ASSUMPTION JAMMING WILL
NCT BE RESUMED NOW UNDER DISCUSSION.
FONOFF SAYS FURTHER POINTER TO TENDENCY TO CUT DOWN ON
?SECRET?
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JULY 13, 6 ,
233, Fillelli)lAAN sit
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!APYL, HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY. POLAND WHERE HINII; BEEN
OUT, FOLLOWING JUNE VISIT BY BBC CENTRAL EUROPEAN
yHIER, THAT IF BBC WOAD MODIF?r TONE ITS POLISH BROAD-
r.AsTs, POLES WOULD RcDUCE JAMMING. BBC OFFIC:AL GAVE
NO SUCH UND.ERTAK)NG TO POLES BUT BRITISH EMBASSY WARSAW
HAS REPORTED THAT MORNING AND AFTERNOON TRANSMISSIONS
COMING THROUGH RATHER MORE CLEARLY AT PRESENT ALTHOUGH
LATER ONES ARE JAMMED AS HEAVILY AS EVER. THIS RELAXA-
TION FIRST NOTICED JUNE 27 BUT SINCE POZNAN DISTURBANCES
OCCURRED JUNE 28, FONOFF BELIEVES THIS MAY WELL HAVE
SCARED POLISH REGIME OFF MAKING ANY FURTHER REDUCTION
AND VIEW HELD BY BBC AT PRESENT IS THAT THERE HAS BEEN
NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.
F0NOFF CONCLUDES THAT IT DOES LOOK HOWEVER AS IF THE
cof:sIDERABLE PUBLICITY GIVEN IN WEST TO QUES1ION OF ?
'AWING HAS HAD SOME EFFECT. FUf.OFF STATES ITS iNTENTION
TO CONTINUE STAND FOUR SQUARE AGAINST PRINCIPIE OF
))/STEMATIC JAMMING.
PRESENT LATENT OF JAMMING FONOFF STATES SO FAR AS
.AN BE ASCERTAINED BY OBSERVATIONS HERE AND FROM MOSCOW
THERE IS NOW NO DELIBERATE JAMMING OF BBC RUSSIAN SERVICE
FROM WITHIN SOVIET UNION JAMMING FROM RUSSIA OF BBC
BROADCASTS TO SATELLITES, AND IN LANGUAGES OF OTHER
TOUNTRIES ON PERIMETER OF SOVIET UNION, SUCH Au FINNISH,
HEBREW, TURKISH AND PERSIAN HAS ALSO VIRTUALLY CEASED.
5ATELLITE JAMMERS ARE STILL OPERATING ON BBC AT FULL
STRENGTH, WITH POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF POLAND, AND THERE
HAVE BEEN REPORTS FROM BRITISH MISSIONS IN BUDAPEST
AND BUCHARESO THAT NEW JAMHERS HAVE RECENTLY COME INTO
OPERATION IN THOSE AREAS.
FJNOFF POINTS OUT THERE IS STILL SO MUCH JAMMING ON THE
ETHER THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO BE TOO CATEGORICAL
AT3OUT WHAT IS OR IS NOT DELIBERATE JAMMING AND INTER-
FLRENCE IS STILL NOTICEABLE ON SOME FREQUENCIE:i BBC
RusJIAN SERVICE BUT BBC, BELIEVES THIS IS DUE TO 'SPREAD
OVER FROM ADJCENT JAMMED FREQUENCIES USED BY OTHER
SERVICES OR TO THE ODD JAMMER NOT BEING QUITE SURE
WHAT IT IS COVERING.
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:--ONOFF VlEWS, IN GENERAL, SHOW CLOSE PARALLEL WITH
l%FORMATION PROVIDED PAO BY BBC OFFICIALS. FONOFF CON-
DLL1ED POST OFFICE RE ABOVE.
OE.SPATCH FOLLOWS TRANSMITTING FONOFF INFORMAL NOTE IN
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Chief Mediterranean Bureau, FBIS
Acting Chief, FBIS
New BBC Transmitter in Middle East Area
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17 July 1956
1. of 28C has Wormed us that RIC S.
sondusting ea engineering survey in the Middle East, including
Cyprus, tor thepurpose of establishing a transmitter in the
area. Final selection or the site sill be dependent on the
result of the ~Amy. if Cyprus is selectad as the site,
irreasse to our monitoring them that caused by existing
feels that the transmitter should cause no greeter
lastaLlatioas.
2. BBC bas promised to keep us intonsed as this
subject and, of course, we shall pass an to ypu *ay further
Stalls us resolve. is activities are at present emsfidentia
sad our injunction to refrain from any approach to locaL
contacts still applies.
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