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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) is an Open Source Intelligence component of the CIA 's Directorate of Science and Technology that monitors, translates, and disseminates within the US Government openly available news and information from non-US media sources. In November 2005, it was announced that FBIS would become part of the newly-formed Open Source Center, tasked with the collection and analysing of freely-available intelligence. HISTORY FBIS was founded in 1941, six years before its parent agency. SERVICES CUSTOMERS FBIS customers include highest-level policymakers, intelligence community analysts, and academics. IN THE NEWS Saving FBIS from budget cuts The Federation Of American Scientists launched a successful campaign in 1997 to save FBIS from planned budget cuts. The Larry Chin spy incident Larry Wu-Tai Chin worked for FBIS from 1952 to 1981 and sold classified documents to China. SIMILAR OUTFITS AROUND THE WORLD Australia: Office Of National Assessments Office of National Assessments. Open Source Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Britain: BBC Monitoring China: Xinhua News Agency Xinhua News Agency circulates for mid- and high-level internal consumption such publications as Reference Information (''Cankao Ziliao''), Internal Reference (''Neibu Cankao''), and "Redhead" Reference (''Hongtou Cankao''). Norway South Africa FURTHER READING
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