In Support of FBIS
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the Central Intelligence Agency exemplifies national intelligence at its best, informing both senior policy makers and the nation as a whole with its daily collection, translation, and publication of thousands of foreign media reports. (Portions of the FBIS product are available to the public by subscription to World News Connection.)
This webpage is part of an effort to preserve and strengthen FBIS and, more broadly, to promote the interests of non-governmental consumers of intelligence agency products.
World News Connection Coverage Cut Back -- and Restored?
General Accounting Office Says WNC Detrimental to Private Sector, Report No. GAO/GGD-00-147, June 30, 2000
- WNC Coverage to be Partially Restored, an update from Gary Sick, October 22, 1999
- An alert from Gary Sick, October 7, 1999
- Letter to Commerce Secretary Daley from Gary Sick, October 7, 1999
- No News Isn't Good News, by Nora Boustany, The Washington Post, October 8, 1999 (excerpt)
- Letter to Commerce Secretary Daley from FAS, October 12, 1999
- House Intelligence Committee Report Language on FBIS, July 1997
- DCI-Designate George Tenet's Comments on FBIS, May 6, 1997
- FAS Statement About the Future of FBIS, February 6, 1997
News Stories About the 1997 Campaign to Save FBIS
Related Resources
- Monitoring Service Spared in Latest Cuts, Washington Post, 6 February 1997 (excerpt)
- Scientific Set Celebrates Survival of CIA Service, Washington Times, 7 February 1997 (excerpt)
- CIA Says Its Translation Output Won't Shrink, Reuters, 4 February 1997 (excerpt)
As reported in this Reuters story, CIA now says that FBIS plans to make "more, not less, information available on line for direct public access."
- Listening to the World (editorial), Washington Post, 31 January 1997
- Academia Mounts Fight to Save CIA Program, Los Angeles Times, 14 January 1997 (excerpt)
- A Lack of Intelligence (editorial), Boston Globe, 13 January 1997
- CIA Media Translations May Be Cut, Washington Times, 30 December 1996 (excerpt)
- CIA Threatens to Pull Plug on World Service, London Sunday Telegraph, 24 November 1996 (excerpt)
- FAS Statement in Support of FBIS and Endorsements, December 1996 - February 1997
- FAS Letter to National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, 3 January 1997
- FBIS and Open Source Intelligence, a speech by Admiral William Studeman
- FBIS Past and Future, a speech by FBIS Deputy Director J. Niles Riddel
- A Proposed Intelligence Budget Emphasizing Open Sources, Open Source Solutions, 13 December 1996
- Intelligence in the Public Interest, Secrecy & Government Bulletin, October 1996
Related Links
- The INT for Cross-National Academic Research: The Scope of FBIS and BBC Open Source Media Coverage, 1979-2008 by Kalev Leetaru, Studies in Intelligence, volume 54, no. 1, 2010
- World News Connection, FBIS products for non-governmental subscribers