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• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 1, 1986
• Content Type: REPORT

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FBIS
Foreign Broadcast
Information Service
NEWSLETTER
Edition 86-2
1 March 1986
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NEWSLETTER 1 March 1986
HEADQUARTERS RELOCATION
FBIS' new home will be the Reston Initial
planning for the move is well under way, with a projected relocation date
of early December 1986. At least one other DSO. component will be
collocated with us from the beginning. Plans call for another building
(or buildings) to be constructed by early 1988, at w e other
Directorate offices will move into the new complex.
MODERNIZATION DEVELOPMENTS
Automated FBIS System
The work on the Automated FBIS system is proceeding on schedule.
March will bring the first major review of the classified system which
will be the system used by everyone in FBIS headquarters except for the
Wire, DR, and JPRS. Because of budgetary constraints, ADD and its
contractors are looking at a lower cost option for the bureaus based on
personal computers and a local area network. Such a system would provide
word processing for monitors and editors and handle the communications
functions--all at a fairly simple and spartan level. A first-
such a system will take place in Vienna late this spring.
INTERNET UPDATE
Contractors are actively pursuing the microwave link to connect the
Washington INTERNET terminals at Quantico with the new FBIS Reston
Facility. This requires identification of suitable frequencies,
appropriate relay facilities, if required, and asofiIinfor the
Federal Communication Commission (FCC) licence.
Clearing and construction of the Quantico site has also begun.
Activities include plans for the o erations building, power hookups, and
sewage/water facilities.
COMSAT and their Sub-Contractor visited Panama to conduct a site
survey. Coordi also been carried out with the British on their
earth terminal.
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ROSET UPDATE
The Bangkok ROSET went operational just prior to Christmas and i
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Three additional antennas (9.2 meter) are nearing completion at
Panama, which will become the major ROSET installation in the FBIS
inventory.
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The Associate ROSET for Paraguay is currently undergoing acceptance
testing by the manufacturer prior to packing and shipment. This
installation to be on line, monitoring BRA2ILSAT, toward the
end of April.
NEW HEADQUARTERS ENGINEERING DIVISION
The new Headquarters Engineering Division (HED) was formed in
December 1985 as part of the Engineering Support Group. HED is comprised
of three Branches: Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and
Training. Division responsibilities include the management of all
technical equipment within FBIS Headquarters -- both software and
hardware -- and the training associated with the Automated FBIS System.
HED is charged with the overall maintenance of the AFS program as the
system becomes available. Specific responsibilities relative t
and software support to the Field Bureaus is to be determined.
CHILD CARE CENTER
The Agency's child day-care center on the Headquarters compound is
scheduled to open in the fall of 1987. The center will be a non-profit
child development facility and will provide care for youngsters from ages
3 months to five years. It will accommodate 100 children at first and
will probably expand to care for 150. The operate Monday
through Friday during normal working hours.
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ANALYSIS GROUP ACTIVITIES
AG prepared for the DDI's Arms Control Intelligence Staff on
30 December an assessment of recent Soviet statements on on-site
inspections of nuclear tests. The analysis took note et
formulations regarding inspections and verification.
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AG later received a request from the ACTS for 30 copies of its
analysis report, "Gorbachev's Arms Control Plan: Breaking with the Past,"
for distribution at a meeting of the NSC-sponsored Arms Control Support
Group, which is working on proi-osals for the Geneva arms talks.
At the request of ACTS, AG followed up this analytic report on
Gorbachev's arms control proposal with a report containing selected
Soviet statements on verification of disarmament. focusing on Gorbachev
pronouncements regarding on-site inspection.
PRODUCTION GROUP DEVELOPMENTS
In view of numerous expressions of interest in the unrestricted
dissemination of Japanese SU translations, including interest shown by
the U.S. Congress and Department of Commerce, the first non-FOUO JAPAN
REPORT: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY was published on 10 January. The new
series, to be published about once a week, will carry material that does
not qualify for copyright protection, all of which had been published
previously in the FOU0 JAPAN REPORT: SU. This will enable the National
Technical Information Service (NTIS), which sells JPRS reports to the
public, to provide customers with Japanese SU translations for the first
time. Copyrighted material will continue to appear in the FOUO report,
which NTIS does not receive. (U/AIUO)
At the 23 January Narcotics Warning Meeting, the AJNIO for Narcotics
praised FBIS reporting on narcotics issues and urged meeting attendees to
rreacLand use the JPRS Worldwide Report: Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
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attended the first running of the DDSU/OTE Survey of Subsaharan rica
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Program had actively assisted OTE in the development of this course by
providing suggestions for lectures and discussions, as well
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A new publication titled NO UNCERTAIN TERMS was published in
January. The publication, which will appear approximately six times a
year, presents short articles on translation problems and lists of new
terminology in all languages translated by Prod. The publication will be
mailed to FBIS bureaus, JPRS contractors, HQ analysts (on a selective
nd selected translation units in the Intelligence Community.
With a sufficient cadre on hand, JPRS has stopped hiring ICs in a
number of languages unless their application forms reflect unusually
outstanding abilities or specialized areas of knowledge. The languages:
ELAA Section -- Bulgarian, Danish, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian,
Spanish, and Swedish; NEA Section -- Hindi, Malay, Persian, and
Vietnamese; and USSR Section -- Russian litical, economic, agriculture,
biomed, chemistry, and geology).
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TV SERVICE
At the request of USIA, the FBIS TV Center prepared a daily tape of
the Vremya feature from Moscow TV during the 12-22 January visit to Moscow
by USIA Director Wick. The TV Center was also able to fill a request from
the Smithsonian Institution, providing them with video fo
eruption of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano in the USSR.
NEWS FROM THE BUREAUS
For the second straight month (January), Abidjan Bureau wordage
reached a new high, 315,660, leading the bureau chief tanestiori whether
Parkinson's Law may have had some influence on output.
Austria Bureau has been asked to install a dish antenna for coverage
of European KU-Band satellites. In mid-January, a letter was sent to the
Austrian Foreign Ministry requesting written confirmation of the
extra-territoriality of the bureau's building and grounds. Such
confirmation should facilitate permission from the Au tr n PTT for the
installation of a satellite antenna on the terrace.
As part of the Vienna Embassy's increased emphasis on security over
the past year or so, a State Department-sponsored team was invited
to conduct a 3-day simulated crisis exercise. The bureau chief, as a
member of the Embassy's Emergency Action Team, spent the 3 days in
January in a "Command Center" trying to help the EAT cope with a variety
of imaginary problems, disasters, and attacks. Meanwhile, in the real
world, the Embassy stepped up security in the wake of the 27 December
terrori cident at Vienna Airport and the resulting tension with
Libya
The new Bangkok ROSET, though still in the experimental stage,
provided FBIS with numerous reports on the Philippines election. Thus
far, 18 satellites have been identified on the system, and BacokBureau
has started regular coverage of selected Delhi TV newscasts.
Following a 13 January alert by OCPAS to a possible coup in the
PDRY, Gulf Bureau placed Aden radio on open watch coverage. Subsequently,
the bureau filed the first report on the coup from Aden radio, more than
90 minutes before the story was picked up by local news agencies.
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Hong Kong Bureau celebrated its 10th anniversary in January, coming
a long way from those early days when its only mission was coverage of a
handful of PRC regional rad'os to its recent preoccupation with the
Philippines. With FBIS committed to improving its coverage of the
Philippines, a joint Hong Kong and Okinawa team completed a content/
reception survey of Philippines radios from Clark AFB and Cebu City,
finding that a small recording relay site in Cebu would provide the best
access to previously unheard opposition radios. Meanwhile, Hong Kong
Bureau faced the herculean chore of providing fullest possible coverage
of everything Marcos said leading up to the elections -- 29 speeches
amounting to 129 takes in January alone. Later, during the revolt of the
military and the eventual change of government, the bureau began 24-hour
operations to provide round-the-clock coverage of the crisis. When the
political scene had settled down somewhat and broadcasting patterns
stabilized at the end of February, everyone concerned had a reed to a
staffing change that wouldtrarsfer Okinawa Tagalog monitor
permanently to Hong Kong.
Keeping their sense of humor, the Hong Kong editors have promised to
compile a recording of the "best" of the melodies that Imelda Marcos sang
during the campaign. The tape, entitled "It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady
Sings," will be pouched to C/DRD in appreciation of his tasking the
bureau with all this fun.
Key West's housing project is beginning to look more
and more like a place where people will eventually live and less like
a construction site now that the second floor walls of the townhouses
have gone up and the roof on the chief's house is in place. By the
end of February, the Navy's local project estimated the
housing at more than 30 percent finished.
With the kickoff on 25 February of the 27th CPSU Congress, London
Bureau reached the beginning of the end of its coverage of this year's
republic and national party congresses that had begun in January. The
DRD has been publishing all this congress-related material in special
MIDAS-generated supplements to the USSR DAILY REPORT. As a further
service to consumers, the FBIS satellite dish at Langley operated on
a 24-hour basis throughout the CPSUConress to provide live Moscow TV
coverage to Headquarters analysts.
Coming off a record 34,162,150 words published in 1985 and the
busiest December in history (about 10,000 words a day above the previous
December high in 1981), London Bureau had its second busiest January
ever. Quite a bit of this wordage was traced back to Libya's al-Qadhafi,
who responded to U.S. pressure in connection with recent terrorist
attacks in Europe with a seemingly endless stream of tress interviews and
speeches at the annual Libyan people's congresses.
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Modernization momentum picked up in January as PMU was wired for its
Wangs and the bureau begar to plan its Internet future. British Telecom
International representatives visited the bureau twice to inspect
Caversham and Crowsley sites and discuss Internet connections with BBC and
FBIS personnel. A bureau Internet committee also began discussing
equipmentsnce, staffing needs, and other operational and technical
aspects.
WHO'S DRIVING, ANYWAY
Wen a centaity on. zo o6 Bnitizh-Fnench indecizion oven the mmitz o4
a 4ixed Zink between the two counttiez, Pnime Minizta Thatchek and
PAesident Mittekkand agneed thiz month to pnoceed with one o4 thkee optionz,
a twin-bone nail tanneZ ackozz the channel. Anothek option, which incZuded
a tunnel son automobile tta44ic, pnompted an Abendeen pno4ezzot to o44en
the SUNDAY TIMES a poem which concluded:
Not one o4 you who en-tet z theke
Can hope to te-emenge alive!
You'ZZ ctoze youA eyez in holy dkead
Az ha way thkough you zee ahead
The point wheke night- meets Let-hand
PAPER, PAPER EVERYWHERE
Admin zta462Az in Caveuham, having twice lazt yeak tequated 25 zheetz
o4 bnown blotting papa which we're 64:Ratty neceived in Novembek, wee non-
ptmed to Aeceive anothen 625 zheetz 24 JanuaAy -- an eztimated 25-yeat
zuppty at cuttent Aate o4 wage. Meanwhile, the adminzta,44 at the embazzy
waz Locked out o Lts ()Wee when the Matine guatd went o44 one night with
the only key. Once the doon waz batteked open and entky gained at mid-
moAning, the Embazzy zecultit o ice caved in and authoiiized the FB1$
Adm-Ln Ch-Le 4 hen own key.
Kadena Air Base continues to expand as other military facilities
and housing areas on the island are phased out. More than 300 additional
housing units, a large sports complex, and numerous military facilities
are scheduled for completion within the next six months along with a
12-classroom, 2-laboratory addition to the base high school. Former
Okinawa Bureau staffers will be pleased to learn that the Skoshi KOOM, the
former FBIS club where Ito-san still tends bar, is scheduled for complete
interior refurbishment beginning in January.
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Live ammunition and poisonous snakes (also live) generated no little
excitement among the bureau's Japanese employees during the month. In
the first instance, a maintenance man looking for edible roots in the
jungle directly behind the bureau chief's house came up with a live 5-inch
shell instead. A military disposal squad was called in to remove the
shell, which had been there since World War II. In the second incident,
workers clearing access roads into the bureau's antenna field uncovered
four of the island's deadly habu snakes. The Japanese workers gleefully
captured the snakes live and sold them for to a snake farm that
stages habu-mongoose fights for tourists.
Fifteen of Seoul Bureau's local employees and three staffers
participated on 7 December in a VIP tour and briefings at the Joint
Security Area at Panmunjom and one of the tunnels dug by the DPRK under
the DMZ. The tour was arranged by one of the Bureau's contacts at the UN
Command Military Armistice Commission, in appreciation for the service
the Bureau provides UNCMAC. Korean citizens normally are not allowed to
visit the DMZ, so the occasion Drovi?d a rare opportunity for local
employees to see the area.
The DODDS high school, Seoul American, which is attended by most
children of military and Embassy parents in the Seoul area, has received
the Department of Education "Excellence in Education" award for 1985.
Seoul American is the ODDS school in the Pacific to receive this
prestigious award.
Johannesburg television continues to prove its value as a source,
particularly since the new "Network" discussion program was begun. In
January, the program carried alternately in Afrikaans and English six
in-depth discussions of constitutional options for South Africa, all of
which were processed by Swaziland Bureau. During the month, the bureau
began participating in the "Cities" TV project, sending back via DHL the
main English news on each weekday night. This is in addition to the
fairly large number of tapes being supplied MOD regularly by pouch.
SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR
The bukeausz admin aziztant and the buneau chie4 utexed on the only
women's /mit to be enteted in the annual GAeatet U4utu Aa4t /Lace had in
Big Bend, Swazitand ih Decembm The woment4 team VILiAhed ninth
ovenatt in the 12-kitometen. &ace invotving some 20 Aa4t/s, and wowed have
6inished even soonen had the expenienced meniz teams been genttemanty
enough to watn them which side o6 the Aapidz to avoid so az not to get
hung up on the A.ockz. Locat hUMOA had it that flout dogs had been Zozt to
ckocoditez in the /Liven the pAeviouz week, but no cues we/Le sighted,
thouah they we, much in mind, -az patt-o.4 the AaCe invotved"puA4ng the
napz oveit shattow ;sand ban.
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UNIT CITATION
the. Executive Dittectoit., piteisented the alilte Settvice)s
Sta66 wir.th a. MeALtoftiows Uni,t Ci-tati.on on 28 Janufzity "out)standing
peA4o/unance" duiting a numbejt. o woiLed ctii)seis wiLthin the. 1 Octobett 1984-
30 Septemba 1985 time iitarne.
AWARDS
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Commendation Medal. on 17 Januaky by M. Hineman.
wais awaitded the. Intettigence
who itetitted 4/tom JPRS &fist May, haz been awanded the
InteLagence Commendation Medat.
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