MONTHLY REPORT -- PANAMA BUREAU -- MAY 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00385R000200110017-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: June 4, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
PANAMA BUREAU
DRAWER 927
APO MIAMI 34004
4 June 1981
MPA #1020
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, FBIS
THROUGH : Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT : Monthly Report -- Panama Bureau -- May 1981
A. Editorial/Monitorial:
With one monitor's resignation, another on extended sick leave, and
one still in training, the bureau's manpower was tightly pressed to keep up
with a "normal" processing load during the month. Highlighted during May
were the death in an air crash of Ecuadorean President Roldos, the Father Roy
Bourgeois case in El Salvador, Costa Rica's break with Cuba, and a flareup
of border incidents between Nicaragua and neighboring Honduras. At month's
end, efforts were underway to fill at least two monitor slots from the bu-
reau's short list of applicants.
B. Training :
Editorial trainee
departed on 29 May after compietSiT
Paraguay took over responsibility for Peruvian newspapers effective
with the issues of 16 May. Panama is retaining its subscriptions as back-
stop. Guatemala contractor ended her services to the bureau WFA
May due to her spouse's reassignment. A replacement phone-feeder, STA
has taken over her duties.
the TDY editorial training program.
C. Coverage:
D. Technical:
Headquarters engineer journeyed to Guatemala City in 1 AT
month to install remote-monitoring ante ephone-switching equipment in the
embassy there, thus adding GtiiatPmala to the bureau's remote monitoring net-
work, which also includes Managua and San Salvador. Plans are well under way
to add Tegucigalpa, as work has begun on extending a 4-wire telephone line to
that city. As soon as the line is completed, probably in August, _kUTAT
go to Tegucigalpa to install the necessary equipment there.
 pprovea ror Keie4
1. Effective 7 May, was designated deputy chief techni STAT
cian for a trial period of months. During this period he will assume the
responsibilities of chief technician- in the latter's absence.
2. Senior monitor I land teletypist
were awarded 15-year pins at a special ceremony.
3. On 29 May, the bureau title Monitor Supervisor for Operations was
changed to Chief Monitor. who held the former title, has been STAT
given the new one.
4. Senior monitorl resigned effective 30 May to take STAT
a position with the Unite ,Nations in New York.
Latin American specialist, 7 and STAT
Headquarters engineer, 6-10 and 18-29 May.
Chief, Panama Bureau, FBIS
Attachments:
MDnthly Production Report
Operations Attachment
Engineering Attachment