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MORI DocID: 1451843

8 May 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR: DDI

SUBJECT : Sensitive Activities

1. FBIS has been engaged in no activities related to the Ellsberg
and Watergate cases.

2. FBIS operations occasionally extend to the domestic arena. From
time to time, FBIS linguists are made available to DDO or OFFICE of
Communications components for special operations (usually abroad) involving
client-support, drafts work or translation of audio take. On one occasion
recently DDO, on behalf of the FBI, requested the services of several
FBIS linguists skilled in Arabic to work directly.for the FBI on a short-
term project here in Washington. The arrangements were made by Mr. Oberg
of the DDO CI Staff. He said the project was very highly classified and
that FBIS participation was approved by Mr. Colby and the Director. FBIS
participation was approved by the Director of FBIS after a check with
the ADDI. Other examples of sensitive linguistic support work are help
in the handling and resettlement of defectors, the recent assignment of
an employee to the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs to transcribe
recordings in a rare Chinese dialect, and the detailing of another
Chinese linguist on two occasions to assist in the U.S. military training
of Chinese Nationalist cadets.

3. Within its responsibility for monitoring press agency trans-
missions for intelligence information, FBIS publishes and distributes
some material which falls in a "gray" area of copyright protection, libel,
and privacy of international communications. Press services controlled
by national governments and transmitted by radioteletyp without
specific addressees, e.g. the Soviet TASS service and the PRC's NCNA,
are monitored by FBIS and the material is disseminated without restriction. The legality of this has been affirmed by decisions of the
Office of General Counsel.

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SENSITIVE

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