FBIS Newsletter, Edition 86-2

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 | SECRET rif{I\\\" WEUETTT7 SSRI Tf a FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service WSLETTER Edition 86-2 : 1 March 1986 SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 NOTICE x Field Bureaus are reminded that copies of this Newsletter should be destroyed after reading by U.S. Staffs employees. This Newsletter ts not be to retained in field bureaus. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 :CIA-RDP0O5-01430R000100050002-3 its Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET ; NEWSLETTER a SSS—S—C—O March 1 March 1980 1986 HEADQUARTERS RELOCATION FBIS' new home will be the Reston Initial 29X1 planning for the move is well under way, with a projected relocation date of early December 1986. At least one other DS&T component will be collocated with us from the beginning. Plans call for another building (or buildings) to be constructed by early 1988, at whi ime other 25X14 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 s 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 loca] 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 ae or such a system will take place in Vienna late this spring. 29X1 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 also fi for the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) licence. 25X1 Clearing and construction of the Quantico site has also begun. Activities include plans for the operations building, power hookups, and 25x14 sewage/water facilities. COMSAT and their Sub-Contractor visited Panama to conduct a site survey. Coordinati also been carried out with the British on their 25X14 earth terminal. ROSET UPDATE The Bangkok ROSET went operational just prior to Christmas and is currently producing significant amounts of valuable information. 25x11 Three additional antennas (9.2 meter) are nearing completion at Panama, which will] become the major ROSET installation in the FBIS 5X4 inventory. 1 SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDPO5-01430R000100050002-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SEGRET The Associate ROSET for Paraguay is currently undergoing acceptance testing by the manufacturer prior to packing and shipment. This : installation i i to be on line, monitoring BRAZILSAT, toward the 25X14 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 al] ~ 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 vecomes available. Specific responsibilities relative t ini and software support to the Field Bureaus is to be determined. 25X1 CHILD CARE CENTER The Agency's child day-care center on the Headquarters compound is scheduled to open in the fal] 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 wil] accommodate 100 children at first and will probably expand to care for 150. The co operate Monday 5X4 through Friday during normal working hours. ‘SHOE JEFF MacNELLY Ss_ “I'VE DECIDEDTo | Ye THATS VERY »NOW THE EMPLOYEES T NO. TLL HAVE APLACE (fh = [OPEN A DAY CARE | ENLIGHTENED OF |“ANILL HAVE A PLACE. TO PUT MY EMPLOYEES...Bay 0 2 / K, ” CENTER HERE IN ba “ ; THE OFFICE. » A med “yy P Cea ies DdeHerson Communica ans, Inc, 1968 shabu buled Dy Tribune Media Senican ine Ht 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 iet formulations regarding inspections and verification. 25XK1 2 SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP0O5-01430R000100050002-3  Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP0S-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET AG later received a request from the ACIS 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 prorosals for the Geneva arms talks. feral 25X11 At the request of ACIS, AG followed up this analytic report on Gorbachev's arms control proposal with a report containing selected Soviet statements on verification of disarmamen ocusing on Gorbachev pronouncements regarding on-site inspection. 25X11 PRODUCTION GROUP DEVELOPMENTS In view of numerous expressions of interest in the unrestricted dissemination of Japanese S&T 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 pub] ished previously in the FOUO JAPAN REPORT: S&T. This will enable the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), which sells JPRS reports to the public, to provide customers with Japanese S&T 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 A/NIO for Narcotics praised FBIS reporting on narcotics issues and urged meeting attendees to kaki ies the JPRS Worldwide Report: Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. 25X11 25X11 along with DRD's 25X11 attended the first running_of th &T/OTE Survey of Subsaharan Africa Course, 9-13 December. eeaa other members of the Africa 25X11 Program had actively assisted OTE in the development of this course by : providing suggestions for lectures and discussions, as eed range of primary and secondary source materials on Africa. 25X11 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 rene selected translation units in the Intelligence Comunity. 25X11 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). 25X11 3 SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP0O5-01430R000100050002-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET 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 e x4 eruption of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano in the USSR. 25 NEWS FROM THE BUREAUS For the second straight month (January), Abidjan Bureau wordage reached a new high, 315,660, leading the bureau chief t ion whether Parkinson's Law may have had some influence on output. eee 25X11 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 Austrian PTT for the installation of a satellite antenna on the terrace. 25X11 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 rt ala at Vienna Airport and the resulting tension with 25X14 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 Ba eau has started regular coverage of selected Delhi TV newscasts. ‘scam 25XK1 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. 25X11 SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDPO5-01430R000100050002-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET 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 agreed to a staffing change that would sfer Okinawa Tagalog monitor) ae permanently to Hong Kong. Zor Keeping their sense of humor, the Hong Kong editors have promised to compile a recording of the "best"t 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. 29X1 Key West's housing project is beginning to look more 25X11 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 i estimated the housing at more than 30 percent finished. 25X11 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 aie to provide live Moscow TV coverage to Headquarters analysts. 25X1 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 ceca ea and speeches at the annual Libyan people's congresses. 25X1 SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 | Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET Modernization momentum picked up in January as PMU was wired for its Wangs and the bureau began 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 eee staffing needs, and other operational and technical aspects. 25X1 WHO'S DRIVING, ANYWAY After a century or 0 of Battish-French indecision over the merits of a fixed Link between the two countries, Prime Minister Thatcher and President Mitterrand agreed this month to proceed with one of three options, a tuin-bore rath tunnel across the channel. Another option, which included a tunnek for automobile traffic, prompted an Aberdeen professor to offer the SUNDAY TIMES a poem which concluded: . Not one of you who enters there Can hope to ne-emerge alive! You'll chose your eyes in holy dread AS halfway through you see ahead 25X14 The point where right- meets Left-hand drive. . PAPER, PAPER EVERYWHERE Admin staggers in Caversham, having twice Last year requested 25 sheets of brown blotting paper which were finally received in November, were non- plused to receive another 625 sheets 24 January ~- an estimated 25-year Supply at current rate of usage. Meanwhile, the admin stah{ at the embassy was Locked out of ts office when the Marine guard went off one night with the onky key. Once the door was battered open and entry gained at mid- morning, the Embassy security office caved in and authorized the FBIS .~- Admin Chief her own key. 25X1 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. 29X11 6 ’ SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDPO5-01430R000100050002-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET 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 $25 each to a snake farm that stages habu-mongoose fights for tourists. 25X1 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 = imma a rare opportunity for local employees to see the area. 25X11 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. Seou] American is rey schoo] in the Pacific to receive this prestigious award. 29X11 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 th fairly large number of tapes being supplied MOD regularly by pouch. 29X1 SEE YOU LATER ALLIGATOR The bureau's admin assistant and the bureau chief crewed on the onky women's naft to be entered in the annual Greater Usutu nagt race heldin Big Bend, Swaziland in December. The women's team finished ninth overall in the 12-kilometer nace involving some 20 nafts, and would have finished even sooner had the expertenced men's teams been gentlemanly enough to warn them which side of the rapids to avoid 40 as not to get hung up on the rocks. Local rumor had it that four dogs had been Lost to crocodiles in the river the previous week, but no crocs were sighted, though they were much in mind, as part of the race involved pushing the nagrts over shallow sand banks. SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3  Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET UNIT CITATION _| the Executive Director, presented the Wine Serwices 2X1 Staff with a Merctortous Unit Citation on 28 January for its "outstanding performance" during a number °fworkd crises within the 1 October 1984- 30 September 1985 time srame. 2X1 AWARDS } Age ; ; 25X1 | 4 has been selected for 4 Exceptional Analyst Program. One of four Agency employees chosen, will start her 2-year 29X1 sabbatical 4n July when she begins work on her analytical methodology project. 25X11 Retired UD senion Linguist was awarded the Intelligence 20X1 Commendation Medak on 17 January by Mt. Hineman. 25X1 who retired from IPRS Last Mat, has been awarded the Bean : Tntektligence Commendation Medal. SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP0O5-01430R000100050002-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3 SECRET SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/13 : CIA-RDP05-01430R000100050002-3