LETTER OF INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300260004-9
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• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 22, 1967
• Content Type: MEMO

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22 September 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR: Staff Personnel
SUBJECT: Letter of Information
GENERAL
1. Kaduna Situation: The African Bureau at Kaduna faced increased
local security measures as it continued operations despite the Nigerian
civil war. The Commissioner of Police agreed to give bureau personnel
security passes permitting official travel between North and South Kaduna.
The police and army checkpoints at each end of the Kaduna River bridge
have been active, with all types of vehicles searched frequently and
thoroughly.
The African Bureau ordered a metal flagpole for its operations
building. It was deemed wise to fly the Stars and Stripes by way of
identification, current U.S, unpopularity notwithstanding.
Seven-day monitorial and editorial coverage of Nigerian stations
is continuing. (SECRET)
2. Saigon Bureau Situation: The Viet Cong mounted the most serious
terrorist campaign in months in Saigon in connection with the South
Vietnam elections. Heightened security measures at the Embassy complex
in which the FBIS bureau is located included the tripling of military
guards, with heavier weapons. A curfew was imposed on all American
personnel during the weekend of the voting. Special curfew passes were
issued to Bureau staff members. (CONFIDENTIAL)
3. Caribbean Bureau: The construction contract for the Caribbean
Bureau is estimated to be 83 percent completed. The unofficial completion
.date, formerly 31 December 1967, has been revised to 15 October 1967.
FBIS took beneficial occupancy of the Main Radio area on 12 September.
The Lenkurt Microwave Communications System was accepted by the Navy and
FBIS on 17 August and the teletype channel to Fort Allen was activated on
24 August. The -microwave bircuit.to'Mayaguez was placed in service 28
August. As of 1 September a total of 19 Staff employees had arrived for
full duty tours. (SECRET)
4. London Press Monitoring Unit: The London Press Monitoring Unit
is processing its first foreign national linguist, a Russian translator.
More than 100 applications by linguists have been received in response to
personal contacts, letters to university appointment boards, and advertise-
ments. A salary scale for nonprofessional and professional employees has
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been submitted for approval. The London Bureau has been assured of
office space for the press monitoring unit at Wembley Park, Middlesex,
about six miles northwest of the U.S. Embassy in London. (SECRET)
SERVICES AND REQUIREMENTS
5. Special Services: Copies of the Daily Report, Foreign Press
Digests, and FBIS Wire material were made available to the Secret
Service in connection with Treasury Secretary Fowler's trip to the
International Monetary meeting in Rio. FBIS services to the Secret
Service are normally provided in connection with trips abroad by the
President and Vice President. (SECRET)
Tapes of selected Arab broadcasts were supplied to USIA in
support of a project to refute charges of U.S. involvement in the
recent Middle East War. Another USIA project, related to AFP trans-
missions to Africa, is being supported by the East Coast Bureau, which
is sending the USIA Africa Division carbons of AFP material beamed to
Africa. (SECRET)
The Directorate of Plans and Programs of the 7th Air Force in
Vietnam has levied a requirement for Hanoi reporting on U.S. air
activity over North Vietnam. In this connection a copy of PAD's Trends
is being supplied by the Saigon Bureau. Information resulting from this
requirement is used for briefing Lt. Gen. W. W. Momeyer, commander of
the 7th Air Force. (CONFIDENTIAL)
7. FBIS Bibliography: An "Annotated Bibliography of FBIS Serial
Publications" has been compiled. The bibliography lists all current
publications issued by FBIS, including those of the contractual facility.
It is intended primarily as a management tool to facilitate FBIS efforts
to achieve a more efficient and economical operation. The bibliography
should also prove useful for research work and briefings. (CONFIbENTIAL)
8. Reporting Lists: One of the basic issuances for making
collection requirements known throughout the intelligence community is
the Current Intelligence Reporting List (CIRL). This list should be
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'utilized by FBIS area officers, editors, and Staff monitors. When
possible field bureaus should provide foreign national monitors with.
sanitized lists composed of the unclassified portions. (SECRET)
9. Press and Document Exploitation; The USSR Division provided
.an Organization component with a 151-page translation of manuals,
drawings, and other documents ond new Soviet electron microscope, as
well as data on electronic, nuclear, and photographic equipment, and
on weapons and aircraft, from 31 brochures published in Russian, French,
and German. The division also translated correspondence and document
bibliographies concerned with Russian nuclear science for the Atomic
Energy Commission. Services also included the translation of a document
requested by the President of Nicaragua through an Organization component.
Soviet wall posters which included data on the CPSU organization were
translated by the Political/Military Branch. (SECRET)
To date Asia Division has received nearly 100 requests for
copies of its 1200-page translation of the Peking Telephone Directory
which will soon be issued. Material on public health and veterinary
medicine in Outer Mongolia is now being prepared by the Mongolian
linguist for interested consumers in OSI and the Air Force. (SECRET)
The Europe, Africa, and Latin America Division has supported
CBS (formerly OCR) in producing directories of Czechoslovak and Hungarian
officials as well as updating material for the Biographic Register's
Bulgarian Directory. Biographic information on Colonel Monga, head of
the "Government of Public Safety" in Bukavu, was obttined from Belgian
publications and supplied on an urgent basis to meet Organization needs.
Support was also provided for a new handbook on Dahomey. (SECRET)
10. Propaganda Analysis Services: PAD released several papers on the
Vietnam situation. They included the seventh in a series of monthly
Special Memorandums for State on Hanoi propaganda claims of civilian
casualties from U.S. air strikes against the north: Special Memorandums
for MACV, J-2, on Hanoi claims of allied battle losses in the Third and
Fourth Corps areas of South Vietnam; a Special Report on DRV labor prob-
lems; and FYI's on Soviet and East European reaction to U.S. statements
on the possibility of bringing the Vietnam question before the UN Security
Council. The Army Chief of Staff/Intelligence received two Special Reports
and material from recent Surveys and Trends in support of an ACSI study on
North Korean intentions. (CONFIDENTIAL)
11. Moscow Commentary Lists: The new London-based system for prepar-
ing the daily consolidated list of Radio Moscow commentaries went into
effect 21 September. The London Bureau, which itself supplies some 60
percent of the approximately 600 entries in the daily list, now receives
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copies of the lists of commentaries monitored at other bureaus and
integrates them into a single list, which is wirefiled to Headquarters
and reproduced for distribution directly from the teletyped copy.
Headquarters continues to receive drop copies of the lists from the
contributing bureaus, so that requests for processing of listed items
can be made directly to the bureaus concerned. The new system will
streamline what had become an increasingly cumbersome operation in
Headquarters and will net a considerable saving in the effective use
of PAD Research Branch time. (CONFIDENTIAL)
12. Use of FBIS Material: At the request of Gen. Robert Porter,
CINC South, the U.S. Southern Command's 3-2 is reproducing for its own
use the translation of Regis Debray's "Revolution Within a Revolution"
originally translated by the FBIS contractual facility. (CONFIDENTIAL)
Bangkok Bureau reporting on Cambodia is being used for a
continuing series of joint U.S. Mission reports being prepared in Saigon
and dealing with VC/NVA use of Cambodia. The Strategic Resources Branch
of MACV 3-2 is using PAD materials in a weekly briefing of General
Westmoreland on communist propaganda relating to the war effort. (SECRET)
A staff study on the first conference of the Latin American
Solidarity Organization, prepared by the "Subcommittee to Investigate the
Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security
Laws," Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, drew heavily on FBIS
material. The appendix of the 122-page study included texts of items
filed by the East Coast and Key West Bureaus. The text of the staff
study also included much material taken by FBIS from foreign publications,
although the material was not attributed to FBIS. The study was printed
by the U.S. Government Printing Office and released in late July.
(FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
Three translations prepared by the USSR Division were among
sourees cited by an Organization component in an analytical article on
renewed Soviet military pressure for economic priorities. Two recent
OSI reports contained a-number of foreign document source citations,
most of which were supplied by the USSR Division. (SECRET)
An article on East European highways which appeared in a U.S.
Army European Headquarters report quoted liberally, though without
attribution, from an item on Bulgarian highways published in December
1966 by EAD. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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PUBLICATIONS
13. Daily Report: The Latin America Daily Report carried more than
Wo pages (approximately 220,000 words) between 31 July and 15 September
on the Latin American Solidarity Organization Conference. Havana media
have continued to publicize material related to this conference, weeks
after its end. The: Daily Report discontinued publication of the Middle
East Review as of 1 September. The review is still being filed to
lateral consumers in the field and is being carried by the Wire Service.
(CONFIDENTIAL)
14. USSR Publication: At the request of the USSR Division a poll
was made of principal users of the weekly "Foreign Press Digest: State-
ments on Soviet Strategic Weapons and Space Programs." The publication
was discontinued as a result. Material formerly included in this weekly
is now published in the "Foreign Press Digest: Soviet Union." (CONFIDENTIAL)
FIELD OPERATIONS
15. Special Services: An Air Force base in Massachusetts asked for
MOS' help in solving a monitoring problem which was seriously affecting a
radio propagation-in-space study at Harvard University. East Coast, West
Coast, and Okinawa Bureaus contributed cruising information. DIA was
supplied AM, FM, and TV frequencies and power information for French,
Dutch, and Yugoslav stations. (CONFIDENTIAL)
16. Okinawa Communications: For the past several months failure of
the Multiple Address Processing Unit at the Okinawa Stratcom relay center
has restricted the flexibility of the bureau's normal communications.
This should soon be corrected when a second MAPU is installed at the
relay center. (CONFIDENTIAL)
ENGINEERING
l7. Bangkok Link: An order for a UHF communications link for use at
the Bangkok Bureau has been placed with the General Electric Company. The
link will provide two full-duplex 100-wpm circuits and a voice order-wire
channel. (SECRET)
18. Malty? Bureau Space: The Tbkyo Bureau has been allocated an
additional 280 square feet of floor space. Plans for expanding the
bureau's operations area have been forwarded to Headquarters for study.
(CONFIDENTIAL)
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19. Saigon Bureau Move: The Saigon Bureau is expected to move in
mid-October to new offices on the fifth floor of the old Chancery.
Present offices in the EMbassy Annex have been occupied since 1955.
(CONFIDENTIAL)
MISCELLANEOUS
20. Changes in Terminology: The "monitoring program" assigned to
FBIS now encompasses both "radio monitoring" and "press Monitoring," the
latter referring to the press scrutiny or press exploitation operations.
To avoid confusion between "press monitoring" and the monitoring of press
service transmissions, the latter should normally be referred to as "press
service monitoring." (CONFIDENTIAL)
The portable monitoring units and man-transportable monitoring
units are now referred to as "portable monitoring equipment" or "PME."
The initials "PMU" are not being used in this regard due to possible
confusion with press monitoring units. (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
21. Briefings and Visits: On 8 September the Liaison and Requirements
Officer briefed a group of some 50 foreign service officers undergoing
orientation. The FBIS portion of the briefing concentrated on FBIS support
of the State Department and U.S. missions abroad. Groups of FBIS personnel
recently made orientation visits to the Organization's Operations Center
and. the VOA newsroom. (CONFIDENTIAL)
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Deputy Director, FBIS, and 50X1
Deputy Chief of Operations, departed 5 September for visits to 50X1
the London, German, Austrian, Mediterranean, and African Bureaus. 50X1
;:e.;-teMhe;. Chief, Science Branch, Asia Division, 50X1
Chief, Engineering Staff, visited the Caribbean Bureau 19-2 50X1
departed 17 September for Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and
Thailand in connection with a study of press exploitation activities in the
Far East. Okinawa Assistant Chief Engineer visited Tai ei in 50X1
early August for recruiting purposes, and African Bureau Engineer 50X1
visited Accra 7-13 August on official TDY. (CONFIDENTIAL) 50X1
of the BBC Monitoring
Service visited the German Bureau 14-15 August. Major General John M.
Finn, new deputy commanding general of USAMIS, was briefed at. the
Okinawa Bureau on 17 August. (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)
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ADMINISTRATION
22. Temporary Lodging Allowance for Hawaii and Puerto Rico:
Temporary lodging allowances for personnel assigned to and from Hawaii
and Puerto Rico Can now be authorized in the amounts and for the periods
specified in Bureau of the Budget Circular A-56. (SECRET)
23. Requests for Travel Orders: All requests for travel orders
.should be addressed to the Chief. Administrative Staff. If there is a
need to deviate from Rlirh resuests should be
addressed to the Chief of Operations.
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24. Training: Area Officer, USSR Division, 50X1
attended the DOD Weapons Orientation Course at Dugway Proving Grounds
from 12 through 15 September 1967. (SECRET)
26. Regulatory Issuances: The following regulatory issuances were
disseminated: (SECRET)
PERSOI,EL..(CONMENTIAL)
27. New Employees
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Assignment
Secretary, Administrative Staff 50X1
Editor, USSR & Eastern Europe Branch,
Publications Div.
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New Employees (Cont
28. Reassignments
Assignment
Teletype Operator,
Supervisor, Office
Field Office
From
Area Officer
Europe/AF/LA Div.
Senior Editor
Publications Div.
Deputy Chief
East Coast Bureau 50X1
Machines, D. C.
To
Editor
Publications Div.
Senior Editor
Mediterranean Bureau
Deputy Chief
Senior Editor
London Bureau
Watch Officer
Okinawa Bureau
Watch Officer
East Coast Bureau
Admin. Assistant
West Coast Bureau
Area Officer
? Senior Editor
Publications Div.
Editor
Publications Div.
Watch Officer
Tokyo Bureau
Teletype Operator
Wire Services Staff
Deputy Chief
Watch Officef
Caribbean Bureau
Watch Officer
Caribbean Bureau
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(Detailed to Admin Staff
pending reassignment)
Area Officer
Asia Division 50X1
Area Officer
Europe/AFAR Div.
Watch Officer
East Coast Bureau
Clerk Typist
Publications Div.
Deputy Chief
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Reassignments (Con t) From
To
Chief, Austrian Bu
Deputy Chief
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Caribbean Bureau
Analyst
Deputy Chief
Propaganda Anal Div.
Wire Services Staff
Editor
Editor
West Coast Bureau
African Bureau
Project Engineer
Assistant Chief
Engineering Staff
Engineer
Mediterranean Bu
Editor
Editor.
Wire Services Staff
Ge'rman Bureau
Editor
Editor
East Coast Bureau
London Bureau
29.
Resignations
From
30. Retirements
Teletype Operator, Wire Services Staff 50X1
Secretary, Administrative Staff
Clerk Typist, Publications Division
Area Officer, Europe/Africa/LA Division
Editor, Publications Division
Front
RO ER G. SEELY
Director
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
rica/LA Division 50X1
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