STATUS - GKR RADIO-PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01673R000200130001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 13, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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SU}3JECT: Status M GKR Radio..Pr~jects
1, General. USG assistance to Raclio National Khtr,er is composed at this,
time of t~,vo separate projects. The first is tl~e Khnter g~.adio Jznpxavement
Project consisting esserrti.all.y of t~vo rxes=r repeatex? transmitters at Kor:ipong
Sore and Battarxrbang and the second. Radio National F~hrrxer consisting of
USG financed repairs to the country's n~.ajor transzzzitter - a 120 K~V located
in Phnom Penh.
2. Khmer Radio Irrt~rovernPni: Proi?.~ct fY;F?,TT~I? In J~~.1y 1970, the ti~Sr'~.G
assigned. caoxclinating rospo.nsibility far upgrading F~aclicr Can~:tbodia to NSC
.l'~d Iloc PsyOp Committ e on Viet--irTar,7, rlrr~an tht~ a.cf.:'sans taken ~,vere:
a) l7o,tailecl surveys of Canzl,odian Radio braadcastirxU
capabilities and z7~eans to improve thc:xzi (pcrforried by VOA
engineer, Richard Tripp on :I'l~Y).
b) Assistan~:e i.n rc:~tuning transnzit:i:ers anti irnpratrir~g antenna
gx?ound systems as well as xeplr~.ccn~.e.ttt parts to Rarlio ].'hnam
Penh. 'T'his ment of
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