LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00586R000300090008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 12, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO : Chiefs, Field Bureaus
FTKR: : Acting Chief, FBIS
SDBJ:CT: Letter of Instruction
GET-21AL
12 September 1953
1. Construction of the new 'Jest Coast Bureau station at Santa Rosa,
California, proceeded satisfactorily. Foundations for the operations
building were completed and reinforcing steel is being installed for the
concrete floor. The auxiliary building walls are 75% complete. The antenna
field was surveyed. Teletype communications via Army signals between Santa
Rosa, Reseda, and Washington will commence in September.
2. The Okinawa Bureau accepted the first group of eight permanent
houses from the contractor, The houses will not be ready for occupancy
until electricel connections have been made in late September or early
October, Venetian blinds were authorized in all 16 new houses.
3. The recent typhoon in Okinawa and earthquake in Cyprus left FBIS
installations on these islands virtually unaffected.
OPTUITIONS
1. Investigation of the Niigata area as an alternate site for the
Hokkaido Bureau continued, It was established that gas wells in the
antenna area will not constitute sources of reception interference. A
power line in the area will be removed in early 1954 upon conclusion of
the well drilling prop-m. Further study of means of eliminating reception
Interference from another power line, which appears to be the sole remain-
ing technical obstacle, is continuing. Appropriate instructions have been
furnished Chief, Tokyo Bureau to conclude all investirwitions in order that
an early decision may be made.
2. Two Russian-language military personnel of the First Cavalry
Division have been assigned to the FBIS Hokkaido Bureau on TDY as monitors
for the month of Septenber as the result of a requeut to HQ, AWE, through
the Chief, Tokyo Bureau. The principal objective is to bolster the staff
pending arrival of new monitor recruits,
3, The Chief, Okirwra Bureau, departed 18 August on a recruiting trip
to Southeast Asia in search of Chinese, Burmese, Indonesian, Thai, and
Russian monitor candidates for the Okinawa and Hokkaido Bureaus. Preliminary
reports indicate good results to date.
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4. Technical observation of newly inaugurated VOA megawatt trans-
mitters at Munich and Okinawa is being conducted by the Mediterranean and
Okinawa Bureaus respectively, the former to assist the VOA in penetration
of Soviet jamming and the latter primarily for protection of FBID interests
in avoiding reception interference.
5. Six weeks of coordinated interception of the Kyrenia.London file
by the East Coast Bureau with its new triple diversity receiving system
have netted an average reduction in relay of the file by London Bureau
amounting to nearly 10,000 groups per day. This entails an average reduction
of one hour per message in transmission time. The latter greatly facilitated
prompt reporting of the Iranian coup on 19 August when Radio Teheran broad-
casts were for a considerable period the sole source of information on this
subject.
6. A project for press clipping and analysis service at the German
Bureau in support of DD(P) requirements was approved by the Project Review
Committee on 2 September 1953. Arrangements are being made with Foreign
Documents Division for transfer of a classified employee to Frankfurt to
organize and initiate the service.
EDIII)RI AL COM=
All Bureaus
1. The Wediterranean Bureau's monitors and editors have been compli-
mented on their efficient and professional handling of the Iranian royalist
coup on 19 August. Kyrenia's first flash, based on the 1200 GMT Teheran
broadcast announcing Royalist occupation of the broadcasting studios, reached
Washington 20 minutes after broadcast via the East Coast Bureau's interception
of the Nicosia-to-London circuit and cleared the NB? Wire at 1234 GMT.
Kyrenia's second flash was on the flB" Wire at 1242.
Fbr several hours FBIS was the only official source of information
in the Agency (and apparently in Washington) on these developments, and a
special roundup was furnished by the Agency to President Eisenhower based
solely on FBIS material. FEIS was neck-in-neck with the Associated Press
flashes out of London, which were apparently based on Kyrenia's monitoring of
Teheran released by the BBC,
The Division has been complimented on this outstanding performance
by the Acting Director of Central Intelligence, who has asked that his
commendation be paned on to all individuals concerned; the Assistant
Director for Operations; and the Head, BBC Monitoring Service.
2. Prompt field coverage of reaction to the Iranian coup facilititated
the preparation by the Editorial Branch of a roundup of initial Western
radio reaction to the 19 August events, which was incorparated with a
chronology of the Iranian developments and a report prepared by the Radio
%. Propaganda Branch on Noccow's treatment of those developments in a special
paper rbquested from FBIS on 20 August.
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3. The Editorial Branch prepared a survey, as a contribution to an
Agency report., of broadcast material appearing in the IBIS Daily Report
which reflected foreign approb7ti.la or disapproval of the United States,
its actions and policies* The survey covered a number of spocified
Communist countries in Western Europe, the Near and Middle East, the FE?
East, and Latin America*
Old namm Bureau
le, Monitors and editors are reminded of the necessity to make a
routine practice of checking Cabinet and diplomatic lists for the proper
rendering of names. A case in point is an rnit, Numeral Code item filed
on 6 August in which the name of the Burmese Minister of Agriculture and
Forestry was given as Te Chin Chiao Tun, the obvious Chinese equivalent
of Thaictn Kyaw Dun. It is, of course, of equal importance that the Cabinet-
card listing of a name not be used automatically without a careful check to
maize certain that the monitor actually heard the name listed on the card
(it would have been a serious mishap for a garbled or partially unintelli-
gible name to have been "restored", on the basis of the Cabinet list, to
"Pak Hum Yong" when in fact it was "Lee Tong Kurt" or someone acting in
place of the purged Pak Hon Yong). While extreme caution in this respect
must be enercised, it is nevertheless felt that fuller use can be made of
the name lists insofar as they serve as proper guideao
London Bureau
1* The Briefs received from the Bureau have been welcome and greater
use of the device, if feasible, will be appreciated* Short factual TASS
and voice iters excluding, of course, material of top priority -- lend
themselves well to briefing, and their publication in the Daily Report can
be expedited if they are received alrea?ly prepared in that form.
2. Washington editors have been pleased to note tho consistency and
care with which the TABS PRA7DA contents have been handled since attention
was called to their regular publication in the Daily Report,
Mediterranean Bureau
la The Biographical Register, to t O.ch all of the personnel Briefs
prepared by the Bureau are sent, has indicated that she items are used
regularly and are of considerable value in building up the file of Soviet
names.
SPECIAL RZEOZI'S
1,, The name of the Special Reports Branch has been officially changed
to Radio Propaganda Branch*
2* In recent wee!