I just stumbled upon this fascinating history of the CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service and thought SWLing Post readers might enjoy browsing it as well. This  is a history of the early, pre-CIA, years of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. It was published with a classification of “Confidential” in 1969 and fully released to the public by the CIA’s Historical Declassification Division in 2009.

Click here to go to the CIA website, or download each chapter via links below:

• FBIS Cover and Contents [PDF 681.1KB*]
• Chapter 1 – Early Beginnings [PDF 4.9MB*]
• Chapter 2 – Impact of Pearl Harbor [PDF 3.8MB*]
• Chapter 3 – New Service’s Place in FCC [PDF 3.2MB*]
• Chapter 4 – Contacts with the Public [PDF 3.1MB*]
• Chapter 5 – Intergovernmental Relations [PDF 5.2MB*]
• Chapter 6 – International Cooperation [PDF 2.8MB*]
• Chapter 7 – Congressional Handicaps [PDF 2.8MB*]
• Chapter 8 – Adjustments to Meet Problems [PDF 4.0MB*]
• Chapter 9 – Change in War Focus [PDF 3.1MB*]
• Chapter 10 – Congressional Coup D’Etat [PDF 3.0MB*]
• Chapter 11 – 0perations Under War Department [PDF 3.4MB*]