The Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) was a

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government defense-funded organization that was absorbed into the

Foreign Broadcast Information Service The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source intelligence component of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology. It monitored, translated, and disseminated within the U.S. government openly a ...

(FBIS) but its funding and personnel did not transfer. For all practical purposes it ceased its massive operations (80,000 reports since 1957) in 1970, and gradually wound down to virtually nothing under FBIS by 1997. According to FBIS, access to current and past JPRS reports is possible via

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. In 2012,

Readex Readex, a division of NewsBank, publishes collections of primary source research materials. History In 1950, publisher Albert Boni, co-founder of the Modern Library, formed the Readex Microprint Corporation in New York City. Some of the comp ...

, a division of NewsBank, began releasing its digital edition entitled ''Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957–1994''. , access to this material is available through some university libraries. According to the

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, JPRS was a

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operation, operating out of the

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. JPRS translations were merged with daily reports of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a CIA organization, in 1995. The FBIS became the Open Source Center (OSC) within the CIA in 2005; the CIA discontinued public access to OSC in 2013.

References

External links

Readex index of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1994

Guide to JPRS (Joint Publications Research Service) Reports

Research guide from Harvard's library

Readex digital edition of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1994

Foreign Broadcast Information Service : History
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