FBIS Daily Reports 1974‐1996

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was established under the Central Intelligence Agency in 1941 to monitor and translate foreign media (newspapers, periodicals, radio, television). The Open Source Center (OSC) now continues the work of the FBIS, to “ensure that the Intelligence Community maximizes the use of publicly available, foreign print, radio, television, and Internet news and information” (http://newsdetails.blogspot.com/2007/05/dnis‐open‐source‐center‐organizational.html).

The FBIS Daily Reports, printed from 1941 to 1996, have been the USA's principal record of political and historical open source intelligence; they are reports of events as they occurred from a local perspective (Readex).

Readex (Newsbank) began...