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BBC Monitoring is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation that monitors the mass media worldwide and acts as the British Government 's provider of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). It is based in Caversham , near Reading in southern England , and selects and translates information from Radio , Television , Press , News Agencies and the Internet from 150 Countries in more than 70 Languages . It has overseas offices in Moscow, Nairobi, Kiev, Baku and Tashkent. Although nominally and administratively part of the BBC, BBC Monitoring does not receive any Licence Fee money and is instead funded directly by its stakeholders as well as by subscriptions from official and commercial bodies throughout the world. Customers for BBC Monitoring's services include the Foreign And Commonwealth Office , the Defence Intelligence Staff , and other government bodies and Intelligence agencies. BBC Monitoring shares the task of global OSINT collection with its US counterpart, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service , now known as the Open Source Center, a division of the Central Intelligence Agency . Information gathered is pooled under an intelligence sharing agreement dating from 1946 , and is made available to a number of governments worldwide via the Open Source Information System (OSIS). HISTORY OF BBC MONITORING The organisation was formed in , Afghanistan , North Korea and other trouble spots. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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