REQUEST FOR ENGINEERING SUPPORT FOR PLANNING A REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00868R000100050061-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2007
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: July 16, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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tt+1. FOR: Director of Comunications
ATFFINTION: Chief, Systems Engineering Division
authorization to'expend additional funds in FY-1980 to effect such
improvement. FFIS' role in responding to this tasking includes .the
establishment of a small technical unit in Islamabad, Pakcistan, that'
will record and feed broadcast sills to the FBIS bureau at Caversham,
England via leased voice-grade 'ccmmiercial circuits.. The Islamabad
unit will be manned by a.U.S. staff technicians and two foreign ,
service national operators..(C)
2. HIS also received funds for an engineering-study to examine
Chief, Operations Group
FBIS
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.RATIONS GRI
Request for Engineering Support for Plannin,
Remote Monitoring System in Pakistan (C)
1. In response to NSC tasking of the Agency to prove. its
coverage of the Muslim World,,: the DDCI has received from 'Congress
the problems associated with coverting the manned site to a fully
or semi-remote configurati FEIS plans for such a remote .system.
postulate the need for
4. The FBIS focal- point for discussion of -.technical specifications
modified terminal equipment, to relay the monitored. signals to- the.
Caversh m processing site.- (C)
3. Your assistance'is therefore-requested in providing.FDIS
with technical sup ort to complete planning, for a - remote . operation
in _ Is1armabad (() .
is Chief of our Engineering Design and-Su 'oit Staff: He
can reached on'black extension
Your designatedd Contact for the requested. support should feel free
,to contact directly. (C)
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