Foreign Broadcast Information Service

Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FBIS logo circa 1970
Service overview
FormedFebruary 26, 1941 (1941-02-26)
DissolvedNovember 2005 (2005-11)
Superseding service
JurisdictionUnited States Government
StatusDefunct
HeadquartersReston, Virginia, US
Parent service
Key document

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 available news and information from media sources outside the United States. Its headquarters was in Rosslyn, later Reston, Virginia, and it maintained approximately 20 monitoring stations worldwide. In November 2005, it was announced that FBIS would become the newly formed Open Source Center, tasked with the collection and analysis of publicly available intelligence.[1]