Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1941)

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8/26/41 "Decentralization of the Foreign Broadcast I.Ionitoring Service force makes each listening post, in effect, a complete unit in Itself, v/ith engineers, translators, transcribers, stenographers, and persons who prepare reports. Thus, each can tackle an overseas broadcast as quickly as it is recorded. From the far-flung listen¬ ing posts, master reports are speeded by air mail to V/ashington, where all analysis work is done, "In Vi^ashington, as tlie master sheets covering each broad¬ cast are finished, they go to another section, which prepares copies of the transcript on duplicating machines. The ' transcripts then go to the Deport Gection, which is able, by noon, to get out a dally summary covering broadcasts over the whole world the night previous. This report describes the content of foreign broadcasts, and analyzes them from the viavpoint of propaganda strategy, "At the same time, copies of transcripts go to the Analyst Section, which is charged v/lth the work of long-range 'scientific* analysis. This task is also performed cn a hir^ly current basis, so that it is possible to study daily trends, and so deduce the in¬ tention of foreign propagandists and the probable effect of such propaganda on various audiences throughout the \yorld, "To take the utmost advantage of such advance inf or?'nat ion, interested Government officials must have flashes and reports within the shortest time possible, hven an hour*s delay may mean the difference betvirecn 'tip* and fact. Therefore, the four foreign broadcast monitoring units have almost instantaneous communications by means of radio, telephone, teletype, and telefax vdth the Wash¬ ington central office, "Clearing through the ’Washington office of the Foreign Groadcast honitoring Service, pertinent information is dispatched to a selected list of military and other Government officials in the form of spot bulletins, dally reports v;ith over-all content and analysis, weekly summaries of propaganda methods on the long-range basis, and special reports and analyses in particular matters, "Continuous listening is necessitated by the difference in time throughout the vi/orld, l//hat might be the best listening period in one country may be early morning in another. Also, programs which come over different frequencies at the same time must be re¬ corded separately, "The volume of international broadcasts is tremendous. The German radio bombards the United Gtates alone v;ith nearly 11 hours of emissions daily, the British send us about 6-| hours, Japan 4-ghours , and Italy more than 4 hours, and a score of other nations in lesser proportions. Significant to our Foreign Broadcast lionitor ing Service are the different treatments accorded the same news by a country in broadcasting to various nations," X X X X X X X X 8