MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT -- SEPTEMBER 1964

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300010004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 8, 1964
• Content Type: MEMO

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2. Efforts to achieve further economies in bureau operations
resulted in a rearrangement in the production process of
the bureau's WEEKLY REPORT ON THE EAST GERMAN PRESS. The
assembling and stapling of this report by employees of the
Consulate General under the shared administrative support
agreement with the State Department cost the bureau $720.00
in FY 1964 and would have cost $817.00 in FY 1965. As an
initial economy measure in July of this year, arrangements
were made to have this work done by two university students
at reduced cost. During early September it was decided to
have the work done exclusively by bureau employees, thus
reducing bureau expenses by $817.00 per annum.
A. Monitorial
1. With BBC and headquarters concurrence, the bureau assumed
year-round rather than seasonal coverage responsibility
for the East Berlin domestic service Berliner Rundflxnlc.
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The proposal that German Bureau take Berliner Rundfunk
on a year-round basis was made to BBC through London
Bureau on the basis of a German Bureau study of FBIS
utilization of Berliner Rundfunk material. It was found
that in the four months immediately preceeding transfer
of Berliner Rundfunk coverage to Frankfltrt, December 1963
through March 1964, only one Berliner Rundfunk item of
360 words was published in the Daily Report. In the foui-
month period April through July 1964, when responsibility.
for Berliner Rundfunk lay with German Bureau, the Daily
Report published 135 Berliner Rundfunk items totaling ?
26,110 words.
2. Coverage responsibility of G1II2 I for the period 1800-2100
GNFP was returned to BBC at its request, German Bureau in
return assuming responsibility for the Moscow German 1800-
1900 GMT program, in the first autumn coverage transfer
between BBC and the bureau.?
? 3. Bureau production reached its highest one-day total since
July 1963 with a wirefile of 34,150 words on 24 September,
attributable largely to the People's Chamber meeting which
named Willi Stoph the new chairman of the GDR Council of
Ministers, and the press conference held in connection with
the signing of the Berlin pass agreement.
Observation of the performance of the new flzll-duplex
circuit between German Bureau and London Bureau showed
that its behavior is. still erratic and inconsistent.
At month's end, the new circuit did not as yet appear
stable enough to warrant cancellation of the old half-
duplex circuit.
The bureau chief and senior editor visited communications
representatives to discuss the 50X1
possibility of having them assume any future emergency
servicing of the bureau's newly acquired, complicated ?
R-390~URR receivers. They said they were unable to
render us any assistance, as they have no capability for
fixing their orm R-390'x, one of which has been in
disrepair since it broke down a year ago after only one
week's use.
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Toro members of the Audit Staff conducted an annual audit
of the bureau on September 1 and 2. The Audit Report, a copy
of which will be forwarded to FBIS Headquarters by the Audit
Staff, stated in summary that procedures and controls in effect
were adequate to protect Organization assets and that "no
discrepancies were noted which warrant comment."
B. The bureau chief and the senior editor on 21 Se ember
visited
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from Beiruth to Little Rock, Arkansas, were provided'
overnight accommodations after they contacted the bureau
on 15 September upon missing their plane connections in?~
Frankfurt.
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an unofficial visit to the bureau and was given an'
opportunity to observe bureau operations, including
attendance at the bureau chief's daily situation briefing.
Attachments:
1. D4onthly Classified Personnel Report
2. Monthly Foreign Personnel Report
3. Operations Attachment
4. Equipment Attachment
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German Bureau
.Progress Report--September 1964
C. The bureau filed a total of 299,370 words to headquarters, of
which 19,340 words were nonpublishable.
D. Austrian Bureau outbound traffic totaling 409,760 caords was
relayed by the German Bureau.
E. The bureau filed or relayed 4 810 words of FBIS material to~ 50X1
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F. Unauthorized outages on the Frankfurt-London and direct line
totaled 38 hours 51 min.
G. The WEIIQ,Y REPORT ON THE EAST GERDfAN PRESS total wordage. was
82,000.
H. As part of RPB`s coding project for selected communist publications,
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