PARAGUAY BUREAU MONTHLY REPORT--APRIL 1981

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00385R000200120018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2007
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 4, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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4 May 1981
MPY-0019
Memorandum for: Director, FBIS
Through Chief, Operations Group
Subject : Paraguay Bureau Monthly Report--April 1981
Paraguay's cost of living increased 10.2 percent in January/February
1981. The post was approved for a 5 percent cost of living allowance
effective 22 March.
II. OPERATIONS
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. A brief dissident seizure of a Santiago, Chile mediumwave
radio station, Radio Portales, prompted extensive bureau efforts to
intercept the transmission, but the brevity of the incident and
poor middday reception frustrated the attempts.
2. Tension along the Chilean-Argentine border, including an
Argentine closure of the border, drew mach attention and generated
considerable copy starting 29 April. There were fears of a recurrence
of the 1979 military confrontation between the two countries.
3. A confrontation between former Bolivian President Hugo Banzer
and the incumbent government at mid-ninth prompted fears that yet
another coup was in the making. But President this Garcia Meza
was able to assert his authority and place Banzer under house arrest.
Here the situation stands at month's end.
4. An extensive new. economic program by the Argentine government
generated a number of complex economic items during April.
B. Conntti,%ca.tions
1. sunspot activity disrupted reception of most high frequencies
on April 9, 10 and 24 for an outage time of 6 and 1/2 hours.
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2. Buenos Aires LATIN experienced a 2 -hour 15-minutes outage on
21 April due to unknown causes, and a 1/2 hour outage on 22 April due
to problems with the New York relay.
3. Paraguay's primary communications circuit was out for 2 hours
on 11 April when a power switch to the dish antenna was tripped
during emergency generator testing.
4, hangeover of satellites on 29 April caused
a planne comrnmications outage of 3 hours.
III. ADMDTISTRA=
A. 'Personnel
1.
Editor arrived at post 2 April to replace
1 -1
who departed PCS in March. ST
2. The bureau chief departed Asuncion on 19 April for private
leave in the United States and to attend the bureau chiefs conference
at headquarters.
B. ' -Visitors
'ef, FBIS Paraguay Bureau
1 area head of comnmications, accompanied by
I Ivisited the bureau on 27 April for orientation
and i, ing
2. Maj Jerry Dunbar, foreign area officer from Brasilia, was
given a tour of the bureau on 30 April. He was accompanied by CW3 Burns
Back of the Defense Attache's Office.
CC.: Panama Bureau
Attd: Eng, Report
Operations Attachment
Monitor Production Report
Monthly Production Report
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