CIA Translate News of the World

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Barry Newman, Today's News, Brought to You by Your Friends at the CIA; Spy Service Translates World's Papers at Secret Cost; Mr. Hounsell Has Few Buyers. Wall Street Journal, Feb 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704629004576136381178584352.html

Note:
(a) up to snuff: "of sufficient quality : meeting an applicable standard"
www.m-w.com
(b) Urdu is an official language of Pakistan.
(c) World News Connection
http://wnc.fedworld.gov/
, which is subcription based.
(c) Persian language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language
(local name: Farsi)
(d) The report says, "Mr. Hounsell's answer: copyright. The CIA circulates Vladimir Putin's speeches inside the government, but WCN needs permission to sell them—and it has to pay royalties to agencies that publish them. Mr. Hounsell spends his days mailing letters (in English) to faraway newspapers or radio stations, pleading for clearance. If they don't agree, WNC erases their content.

The "permission to sell" news reports and "pay royalties" mean permission from foreign news agencies (public or private) and payment of royalties to those agencies, which produce the content in the first place.
(e) Nouakchott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouakchott
(believed translation from Berber "The place of the winds", Nawākšūṭ; the capital and by far the largest city of Mauritania)
(f) Kiev is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine.
(g) Dinamina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinamina
(Founded on December 17 1909, the Dinamina (meaning 'daily gem', a reference to the sun) is a Sinhalese daily that claims the largest circulation among Sinhalese-speaking peoples in Sri Lanka)
(h) Balochistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balochistan
(Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid, mountainous region; divided by three nations: Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan)
(i) Krungthep Thurakit is a newspaper published in Thai (no English).

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