LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

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• Publication Date: May 19, 1959
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MEMORANDUM FOR: All Bureau Chiefs
FRCM
SUBJECT
: Chief, FBIS
: Letter of Instruction
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19 May 1959
1. The problems involved in establishing an FBIS West African
Bureau at Accra were discussed with and
subsequently with the Office of Middle and Southern African Affairs,
Department of State. The latter office will contact the First
Secretary of the American Embassy personally and informally to confirm
whether there is renewed interest in this project on the part of the
Government of Ghana. BBC remained officially silent; however, it was
learned informally at Caversham that they plan to establish a post at
2. A report was furnished 00 summarizing the results of the
television requirements survey and suggesting sample monitoring of
selected communist telecasts by field personnel on TDY Assignments.
3. Rising awareness of and interest in the potential of propa-
ganda analysis as a source of military and scientific intelligence
information was evidenced in two FBIS briefings of top intelligence
officials;
a. The Deputy Director, CIA, was briefed on FBIS propaganda
analysis functions and capabilities, at his request, by the AD/O,
the Chief, FBIS, and the Deputy Chief, RPB. The briefing was
chiefly concerned with the manner in which propaganda analysis
can contribute to the collection of intelligence on the military
and scientific aspects of Soviet missile development.
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b. The Air Force Chief of Intelligence was subsequently
briefed by the Chief, FBIS, and Chief, RPB, on propaganda analysis
functions and capabilities, primarily the manner in which content
analysis can contribute to watch operations on indications of
hostilities.
4. Continued high activity in clandestine broadcasting has em-
phasized the inadequacy of existing direction-finding potential. FBIS
has raised the problem before the Inter-Office Telecommunications
Advisory Committee, and plans further action. A deluge of requests for
location of the new anti-Shah Persian clandestine station fell upon FBIS
immediately upon its activation late in the month. Fortunately, a
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technical slip-up by the Russian transmitter engineer provided the clue
needed to confirm other indications that it is at Baku. Interest also
ran high in two anti-Kassem Arabic clandestine radios which opened during
the month, apparently fron:UAR bases. More new Caribbean clandestine
transmissions added to the monitoring by the domestic bureaus.
5. Fair East bureaus were lisp busy by the Tibet situation much of
the month despite tha disappearance of Lhasa Radio at the outbreak of
fighting. Okinawa reported Lhasa Radio did not reappear until 28 April,
but the bureau was able to provide valuable direct coverage of a morse
circuit carrying NCNA dispatches to. Peking.
6. Attempts are being made through FDD to obtain translations of
recordings of several talks in,the Quechua Language carried by Radio
Moscow's Latin American beam. Quechua is the most irtant nf mnan12
Inca Languages spoken in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
7. Kurdish recruiting appeared successfully accomplished until a
qualified candidate in Istanbul had a change of heart and withdrew.
Meanwhile London Bureau is proceeding with its candidate in Ireland, and
other leads are being reopened. Cambodian recruiting has also en-
countered difficulties, and Saigon Bureau has been forced to hire a
temporary part-time Cambodian-French monitor in order to cover the new
clandestine station, "Voice of the Khmer Freedom Movement." Persian
recruiting has also became urgent with the turn of affairs toward Iran,
and a much needed Persian/Pushtu candidate has been located at Jos,
Nigeria, through London Bureau.
8. With the 10 April issuance of the weekly Editorial Target List,
a new format was adopted which has simplified the publication process.
It is hoped that the new format will at the same time make the Targets
a more effective guidance medium for field editors.
9. At a meeting in ?BIS on 22 April, representativesof OCI, ORR,
OCR, Industrial Register, and Army Map Service agreed to accept: in tele-
type form certain items of Soviet economic material which might other-
wise not be available to them. The material in question, dealing with
economic matters below the republican level, does not lend itself to
abstracting because of: its length and format, and frequently cannot be
published in the Daily Report because of space limitations.
10. Of 365 items included in the OCI,Daily Digest during the month
90 (24.7 percent) were based wholly or in part on FBIS sources.
11. Special Propaganda Analysis Services:
a. The fifth Index of Radio Propaganda Reports was issued on
20 April covering the period July 1958 through March 1959.
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b. The service to the U.S. delegation at the Geneva test-ban
talks continued. Propaganda analysis report No. 90 was forwarded
to CCI on 30 April for incorporation in the Agency support cable
to the delegation. .
c. Mr. William Bundy discussed with the Chief, RPB and members
of the RPB staff the requirements for propaganda analysis support
of the U.S. delegation at the forthcoming Geneva foreign ministers
conference. It was agreed that analyses would be supplied as
warranted by propaganda content, for incorporation in OCs
support cables. He asked that RPB supply a general review of
anticipatory Soviet propaganda to reach Geneva 8 May. Enroute to
Geneva, Mr. Bundy consulted with the Chief, London Bureau, to arrange
for direct wire service from that bureau.
12. Propaganda analysis items on the FBIS Wire included:
(Responsible analyst indicated in brackets)
a. Vituperative Moscow AraCk_on_lhe United States
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Connection with Project
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of
CPSU Slogans for May Day,
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c. Soviet
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Scientist's Forecast of Imminent Moon Probes
xplicit Soviet Claim of Detection of Project
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Argus
Test
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Sovi
ial Hint at Establishment of
Missile Bases in
Satellites
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f. New
Clandestine
Broadcasting in Persian
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13. On 29 April CGS Laboratories, Inc. submitted a price of $1195 each
(in quantities of 80 to 100) for their commercial model short wave multi-
coupler. This compares with $1244 each in quantities of 190 or more, for the
Westinghouse multicoupler. FBIS has tested both of the couplers and feels
clearly that the CGS coupler is better suited to its requirements. We 50X1
have therefore submitted a requisition for procurement of 83 of the CGS
couplers. This quantity may be raised to 110 units, thus meeting the entire
IBIS requirement, if we are successful in securing additional funds.
FIELD SUPPORT OF RADIO PROPAGANDA BRANCH
1.a. In response to a standing requirement from the National Indications
Center, RPB published this month the fourth in its series of semiannual
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Propaganda Reports on civil defense training in the USSR as reflected
in Soviet propaganda. Materials for the fifth report, due in October,
are now being collected. So far most of the relevant data has been
obtained from scrutiny of the specialized press of DOSAAF, the
paramilitary society responsible for civil defense training. It is
still the usual Soviet practice to virtually ignore the subject in mass
propaganda.
b. No ccmprehensive PropSganda Reports have yet been published
on civil defense training in the satellites, although there is consumer
interest in this subject and it is hoped that such reports may becane
possible in the future as sufficient materials beccme available. A
few satellite transmitters have discussed civil defense training exer-
cises during the past year.
c. Field editors are asked to keep in mind RPB's standing require-
ment for the fullest possible coverage of Soviet or satellite items
that seem relevant to the progress of civil defense training. FYIs on
any new developnents observed in propaganda handling of the subject will
be appreciated. There would be particular interest in any indication
that civil defense propagania may be starting to get publicity in the
mass media.
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EDITORIAL BRANCH
? 1. General
a. All bureaus are cammended for their noticeable efforts to
reduce the file of routine and repetitive communist material. Editors
may view the Soviet cammentary list as a satisfactory means of relaying
routine information to both the Editorial and Radio Propaganda Branches.
Concise FYI's should be used to replace separate filing whenever
possible. Occasionally headquarters will request fuller treatment of
an item described in the commentary list or in an FYI.
b. The following are recent excellent examples of the use of
the FYI to report unusual or significant information: An FYI briefly
describing a Vinnitsa Oblast talk on the development of Ukrainian
culture, which highlighted the essential element--a ccesment about
great-state chauvinism; an FYI on Yerevan comment for abroad noting
the first monitored references to an Armenian writer since his post-
humous rehabilitation in the post-Stalin era; and FYI's calling at-
tention to rare reference to chemical warfare in a Soviet regional
broadcast , and pointing out that the USSR is purchasing Rumanian
uranium at more than the international market price.
c. The volume of briefs from Soviet and East European sources
continues to run far in excess of heaaquarters publication capabilities.
All editors are urged to revise upward their criteria for the selection
of material to be briefed, while at the same time insuring that
economic abstract information is not wirefiled as briefs. Scientific
information in the medical field, such as the designing of a heart
microphone, a new device to detect malignant tumors, or the discovery
of new antibiotics, should be processed as abstracts. In addition,
quite a few short items now being filed in textual or summary form
do not merit such individual treatment and should instead be handled
as abstracts or briefs. For example, items describing research work
or job occupations often can be pared down to econamic abstracts; items
reporting the opening of a radio station or new transmitters can be filed
as briefs. For auidance in the selection of abstract material, editors
should review of 2 January 1959, section 2, para-
graph a (2).
. d. In scrutinizing Daily Reports dated April 20 or later, field
editors will notice certain modifications in style. These are based
on revised rules which have provisionally been put into effect at head-
quarters and are to be included in the revised Editorial Handbook pages,
to be distributed early this summer. In those cases where field compliance
with the revised rules is required now to facilitate headquarters pro-
cessing (e.g., "deutsche marks" instead of DM), bureaus have been advised.
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e. The flag "COPY TO " is used to insure that
specific individuals or headquarters components receive messages which
they would not ordinarily see. It is not used when the individual or
staff concerned would be a recipient of the message through normal
distribution procedures Several messages have been received lately with
the following type headings:
COPY TO
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
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In this case the flag and "For your information" are not only
unauthorized but unnecessary, since the message is clearly indicated as
being in answer to a query from and would normally be routed to him. STAT
f. The field is reminded that copy filed for Editorial Branch
use which contains information of particular interest to another branch
of staff should always be called to the latter's attention. For example,
editors should not fail to provide the Operations Officer with infor-
mation bearing on the location and operation of radio transmitters and
radio facilities. No administrative message is necessary if the copy is
being filed editorially, it being sufficient to flag the item "COPY TO
A recent example where such treatment was warranted concerned
a Teheran radio report indicating that Iranian officials had information
that a new anti-Iranian clandestine transmitter was operating from the
Soviet Union.
g. The proceedings of the Third Congress of the Polish United
Workers Party were published in seven supplements to the Daily Report
issued during the period 20 March - 10 April. Most of the published
texts were supplied from press scrutiny by the Austrian Bureau.
h. Two Daily Report supplements were issued in connection with
the first session of the CPR Second National People's Congress.
2. Austrian Bureau
a. Indication of passages in press scrutiny material printed
in boldface type by the use of slash marks and an explanatory subslug
(see page KK 2 of the April 15 USSR/F2 Daily Report) is a simple way
of conveying this information and is recommended for general use.
b. Surveys, studies, and compilations based on press and radio
sources should be addressed to receive Editorial Branch as well as RPB
distribution. One recent study directed to RPB only would have received
Daily Report treatment had it been available to editors.
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3. Mediterranean Bureau
Writers of the Middle East Review should guard against over-
condensation in their efforts to present a tight roundup. Within the
previously established limits for the length of this review, at
least occasional mention should be made of routine or repetitive
comment which does not merit individual processing but which helps
to round out the general picture of the area's broadcast output.
An example would be current Amman radio propaganda.
4. Okinawa and West Coast Bureau
7,
a. The bureau's coordinated coverage of the first Peking
reaction to the Dalai Lama's Tezpur statement enabled the FBIS Wire
to score a'beat over domestic news services. Okinawa's FYI and WCB's
text arrived in Washington long before local press agency reports
of the NCNA statement.
b. Interbureau coordination in covering the Communist Chinese
National People's Congress proceedings in general overcame the problem
presented by split coverage of NCNA and the Peking home service. How-
ever, communications difficulties on occasion delayed Daily Report
publication of the day's proceedings.
c. Okinawa is to be commended for its rapid and accurate
handling of the great volume of material on the Tibetan rebellion while
at the same time providing texts of NPC speeches transmitted in Chinese
hellschreiber. The numerous FYI 'a on speeches kept headquarters fully
aware of the workload and backlog of items to be processed and greatly
facilitated publication planning.
d. The performance of both bureaus under the pressure of
handling an unusual amount of critical perishable material during the
month reflects most favorably on all concerned.
ADMINISTRATION
STAT
1. fective 6 April 1959,
LI1as Liaison Officer, blb.
2. Bureaus arecommended for their clear and well-documented budget
estimates. The care with which they followed instructions is especially
appreciated.
STAT
3. Bureaus are requested to include all Fiscal Year 1959 expenses
on the 30 June Financial Status Report, especially 01 estimated obligations
for the period 28 - 30 June. Upon submission of the 30 June report, there
will be no necessity for further reports of FY 1959 obligations and/or
expenditures.
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4. In order to curtail adjustments required at the beginning of
the new fiscal year, bureaus are advised not to request FY 1960 travel
orders until receipt of the allotment numbers unless delay of the
orders would result in insufficient processing time. This will not
affect advance coordination and approval of travel plans.
5. -Ite following FBIS regulatory issuances were released during
the month of April:
SUBJECT
Renumbering of FBIS Regulation
Transfer of Imprest Fund Accountability
Liaison Officer, FBIS
SUBJECT
Conduct of Employees on Foreign Duty
DIST.
7-3
F-3
Special
DATED
30 March 1959
STAT
Periodic and Longevity Step-Increases
1 April 1959
PERSCINITEL CHANGES
1.
Reassignments
From
To
Radio Operator
Adm. Asst.
STAT
WCB
London
2.
Transfers fram IBIS
Name
Fran
3. Separations
Name
From
.Analyst
RPB
Analyst
RPB
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19 May 1959
MEMORANDUM FOR: All Bureau Chiefs
FROM Chief, FBIS
SUBJECT Letter of Instruction
1. The problems involved in establishing an FBIS West African
Bureau at Accra were discussed with and
subsequently with the Office of Middle and Southern African Affairs,
Department of State. The latter office will contact the First
Secretary of the American Embassy personally and informally to confirm
whether there is renewed interest in this project on the part of the
Government of Ghana. BBC remained officially silent; however, it was
learned informally at Caversham that they plan to establish a post at
2. A report was furnished 00 summarizing the results of the
television requirements survey and suggesting sample monitoring of
selected communist telecasts by field personnel on TDY Assignments.
3. Rising awareness of and interest in the potential of propa-
ganda analysis as a source of military and scientific intelligence
information was evidenced in two FBIS briefings of top intelligence
officials:
a. The Deputy Director, CIA, was briefed on FBIS propaganda
analysis functions and capabilities, at his request, by the AD/O,
the Chief, FBIS, and the Deputy Chief, RPB. The briefing was
chiefly concerned with the manner in which propaganda analysis
can contribute to the collection of intelligence on the military
and scientific aspects of Soviet missile development.
b. The Air Force Chief of Intelligence was subsequently
briefed by the Chief, FBIS, and Chief, RPB, on propaganda analysis
functions and capabilities, primarily the manner in which content
analysis can to watch operations on indications of
hostilities.
4. Continued high activity in clandestine broadcasting has em-
phasized the inadequacy of existing direction-finding potential. FBIS
has raised the problem before the Inter-Office Telecommunications
Advisory Cammittee, and plans further action. A deluge of requests for
location of the new anti-Shah Persian clandestine station fell upon FBIS
inmiediately upon its activation late in the month. Fortunately, a
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technical slip-up by the Russian transmitter engineer provided the clue
needed to confirm other indications that it is at Baku. Interest also
ran high in two anti-Kassem Arabic clandestine radios which opened during
the month, apparently from UAR bases. More new Caribbean clandestine
transmissions added to the monitoring by the domestic bureaus.
5. Far East bureaus were kept busy by the Tibet situation much of
the month despite the disappearance of Lhasa Radio at the outbreak of
fighting. Okinawa reported Lhasa Radio did not reappear until 28 April,
but the bureau was able to provide valuable direct covera2e, of a morse
circuit carrying NCNA dispatches to Peking.
6. Attempts are being made through FDD to obtain translations of
recordings of several talks in the Quechua language carried by Radio
Moscow's Latin American beam. Quechua is the most important of modi rn
Inca languages spoken in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
7. Kurdish recruiting appeared successfully accomplished until a
qualified candidate in Istanbul had a change of heart and withdrew.
Meanwhile London Bureau is proceeding with its candidate in Ireland, and
other leads are being reopened. Cambodian recruiting has also en-
countered difficulties, and Saigon Bureau has been forced to hire a
temporary part-time Cambodian-French monitor in order to cover the new
clandestine station, "Voice of the Khmer Freedom Movement." Persian
recruiting has also became urgent with the turn of affairs toward Iran,
and a much needed Persian/Pushtu candidate has been located at Jos,
Nigeria, through London Bureau.
8. With the 10 April issuance of the weekly Editorial Target List,
a new format was adopted which has simplified the publication process.
It is hoped that the new format will at the same time make the Targets
a more effective guidance medium for field editors.
9. At a meeting in FBIS on 22 April, representativesof CCI, ORR,
OCR, Industrial Register, and Any Map Service agreed to accept in tele-
type form certain items of Soviet econamic material which might other-
wise not be available to them. The material in question, dealing with
econamic matters below the republican level, does not lend itself to
abstracting because of its length and format, and frequently cannot be
published in the Daily Report because of space limitations.
10. Of 365 items included in the OCI Daily Digest during the month,
90 (24.7 percent) were based wholly or in part on FBIS sources.
11. Special Propaganda Analysis Services:
a. The fifth Index of Radio Propaganda Reports was issued on
20 April covering the period July 1958 through March 1959.
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b. The service to the U.S. delegation at the Geneva test-ban
talks continued. Propaganda analysis report No. 90 was forwarded
to CCI on 30 April for incorporation in the Agency support cable
to the delegation.
c. Mt. William Bundy discussed with the Chief, RPB and members
of the RPB staff the requirements for propaganda analysis support
of the U.S. delegation at the forthcoming Geneva foreign ministers
conference. It was agreed that analyses would be supplied as
warranted by propaganda content, for incorporation in CCI 's
support cables. He asked that RPB supply a general review of
anticipatory Soviet propaganda to reach Geneva 8 May. Enroute to
Geneva, Mr. Bundy consulted with the Chief, London Bureau, to arrange
for direct wire service from that bureau.
12. Propaganda analysis items on the FBIS Wire included:
(Responsible analyst indicated in brackets)
a. Vituperative Moscow Attack on te United States in
Connection with Project Argus
b Rig lights of CPSU Slogans for May Day, requested by CCI
c. Soviet Scientist's Forecast of Imminent Moat Probes
d. First explicit Soviet Claim of Detection of Project Argus
Test
e. Soviet Official Hint at Establishment of Missile Bases in
Satellites
f. New Clandestine Broadcasting in Persian
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13. On 29 April CGS Laboratories, Inc. submitted a price of $1195 each
(in quantities of 8o to 100) for their commercial model short wave multi-
coupler. This compares with $1244 each in quantities of 190 or more, for the
Westinghouse multicoupler. FBIS has tested both of the couplers and feels
clearly that the CGS coupler is better suited to its requirements. We 50X1
have therefore submitted a requisition for procurement of 83 of the CGS
couplers. This quantity may be raised to 110 units, thus meeting the entire
FBIS requirement, if we are successful in securing additional funds.
FIELD SUPPORT OF RADIO PROPAGANDA BRANCH
1.a. In response to a standing requirement from the National Indications
Center, RPB published this month the fourth in its series of semiannual
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Propaganda Reports on civil defense training in the USSR as reflected
in Soviet propaganda. Materials for the fifth report, due in October,
are now being collected. So far most of the relevant data has been
obtained from scrutiny of the specialized press of DOSAAF, the
paramilitary society responsible for civil defense training. It is
still the usual Soviet practice to virtually ignore the subject in mass
propaganda
b. No comprehensive Propaganda Reports have yet been published
on civil defense training in the satbllites, although there is consumer
interest in this subject and it is hoped that such reports may became
possible in the future as sufficient materials become available. A
few satellite transmitters have discussed civil defense training exer-
cises during the past year.
c. Field editors are asked to keep in mind RPB 's standing require-
ment for the fullest possible coverage of Soviet or satellite items
that seem relevant to the progress of civil defense training. FYIs on
any new developments observed in propaganda handling of the subject will
be appreciated. There would be particular interest in any indication
that civil defense propagania may be starting to get publicity in the
mass media.
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EDITORIAL BRANCH
1. General.
a. All bureaus are cammended for their noticeable efforts to
reduce the file of routine and repetitive cammunist material. Editors
may view the Soviet commentary list as a satisfactory means of relaying
routine information to both the Editorial and Radio Propaganda Branches.
Concise FYI's should be used to replace separate filing whenever
possible. Occasionally headquarters will request fuller treatment of
an item described in the commentary list or in an FYI.
b. The following are recent excellent examples of the use of
the FYI to report unusual or significant information: An FYI briefly
describing a Vinnitsa Oblast talk on the development of Ukrainian
culture, which highlighted the essential element--a comment about
great-state chauvinism; an FYI on Yerevan comment for abroad noting
the first monitored references to an Armenian writer since his post-
humous rehabilitation in the post-Stalin era; and FYI's calling at-
tention to rare reference to chemical warfare in a Soviet regional
broadcast , and pointing out that the USSR is purchasing Rumanian
uranium at more than the international market price.
c. The volume of briefs from Soviet and East European sources
continues to run far in excess of heaaquarters publication capabilities.
All editors are urged to revise upward their criteria for the selection
of material to be briefed, while at the same time insuring that
economic abstract information is not wirefiled as briefs. Scientific
information in the medical field, such as the designing of a heart
microphone, a new device to detect malignant tumors, or the discovery
of new antibiotics, should be processed as abstracts. In addition,
quite a few short items now being filed in textual or summary form
do not merit such individual treatment and should instead be handled
as abstracts or briefs. For example, items describing research work
or job occupations often can be pared down to economic abstracts; items
reporting the opening of a radio station or new transmitters can be filed
as briefs. For guidance in the selection of abstract material, editors
should reviewl of 2 January 1959, section 2, para-
graph a (2).
. d. In scrutinizing Daily Reports dated April 20 or later, field
editors will notice certain modifications in style. These are based
on revised rules which have provisionally been put into effect at head-
quarters and are to be included in the revised Editorial Handbook pages,
to be distributed early this summer. In those cases where field compliance
with the revised rules is required now to facilitate headquarters pro-
cessing (e.g., "deutsche marks" instead of DM), bureaus have been advised.
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e. The flag "COPY TO " is used to insure that
specific individuals or headquarters components receive messages which
they would not ordinarily see. It is not used when the individual or
staff concerned would be a recipient of the message through normal
distribution procedures Several messages have been received lately with
the following type headings:
COPY TO
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
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In this case the flag and "For your information" are not onl$
unauthorized but unnecessary, s e message is clearly indicated as
being in answer to a query from and would normally be routed to him. STAT
f. The field is reminded that copy filed for Editorial Branch
use which contains information of particular interest to another branch
of staff should always be called to the latter's attention. For example,
editors should not fail to provide the Operations Officer with infor-
mation bearing on the location and operation of radio transmitters and
radio facilities. No administrative message is necessary if the copy is
being filed editorially, it being sufficient to flag the item "COPY TO
A recent example where such treatment was warranted concerned STAT
a Teheran radio report indicating that Iranian officials had information
that a new anti-Iranian clandestine transmitter was operating from the
Soviet Union.
g. The proceedings of the Third Congress of the Polish United
Workers Party were published in seven supplements to the Daily Report
issued during the period 20 Mazda - 10 April. Most of the published
texts were supplied from press scrutiny by the Austrian Bureau.
h. Two Daily Report supplements were issued in connection with
the first session of the CPR Second National People's Congress.
2. Austrian Bureau
a. Indication of passages in press scrutiny material printed
in boldface type by the use of slash marks and an explanatory subslug
(see page KK 2 of the April 15 USSR/ER Daily Report) is a simple way
of conveying this information and is recommended for general use.
b. Surveys, studies, and compilations based on press and radio
sources should be addressed to receive Editorial Branch as yell as RPB
distribution. One recent study directed to RPB only would have received
Daily Report treatment had it been available to editors.
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3. Mediterranean Bureau
Writers of the Middle East Review should guard against over-
condensation in their efforts to present a tight roundup. Within the
previously established limits for the length of this review, at
least occasional mention should be made of routine or repetitive
comment which does not merit individual processing but which helps
to round out the general picture of the area's broadcast output.
An example would be current Amman radio propaganda.
4. Okinawa and West Coast Bureau
a. The bureau's coordinated coverage of the first Peking
reaction to the Dalai Lama's Tezpur statement enabled the FBIS Wire
to score ateat over domestic news services. Okinawa's FYI and WCB's
text arrived in Washington long before local press agency reports
of the NCNA statement.
b. Interbureau coordination in covering the Communist Chinese
National People's Congress proceedings in general overcame the problem
presented by split coverage of NCNA and the Peking home service. How-
ever, cammmnications difficulties on occasion delayed Daily Report
publication of the day's proceedings.
c. Okinawa is to be commended for its rapid and accurate
handling of the great volume of material on the Tibetan rebellion while
at the same time providing texts of NPC speeches transmitted in Chinese
hellschreiber. The numerous FYIls on speeches kept headquarters fully
aware of the workload and backlog of items to be processed and greatly
facilitated publication planning.
d. The performance of both bureaus under the pressure of
handling an unusual amount of critical perishable material during the
month reflects most favorably on all-concerned.
AIHINISTSATION
1.
Effective 6 April 1959,
as Liaison Officer, nab.
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2. Bureaus are commended for their clear and well-documented budget
estimates. The care with which they followed instructions is especially
appreciated.
3. Bureaus are requested to include all Fiscal Year 1959 expenses
on the 30 June Financial Status Report, especially 01 estimated obligations
for the period 28 - 30 June. Upon submission of the 30 June report, there
will be no necessity for further reports of FY 1959 obligations and/or
expenditures.
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4. In order to curtail adjustments required at the beginning of
the new fiscal year, bureaus are advised not to request FY 1960 travel
orders until receipt of the allotment numbers unless delay of the
orders would result in insufficient processing time. This will not
affect advance coordination and approval of travel plans.
5. The following FBIS regulatory issuances were released during
the month of April:
SUBJECT
Renumbering of IBIS Regulation
Transfer of lmprest Fund Accountability
Liaison Officer, FBIS
SUBJECT
Conduct of Employees on Foreign Duty
DIST.
F-3
F-3
Special
DATED
30 March 1959
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Periodic and Longevity Step-Increases
1 April 1959
PERSONNEL CHANGES
1.
Reassiggarnts
From
To
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Adm. Asst.
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2.
NCB
London
Transfers fran IBIS
Name Fran
3. Separations
Name
Clerk Typist
BIS
From
Analyst
RPB
Analyst
RPB
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