01005813 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 closing submissions.843 The Chamber is satisfied that the 24 copies of Revolutionary Flag and 28 copies of Revolutionary Youth on the Case File are authentic copies of the original Party magazines. 6.1.6. Monitoring of foreign news reports 267. The CPK Standing Committee ordered the DK Ministry of Propaganda to “monitor news […] closely at all hours, every day” and send reports in order to make sure that appropriate measures could be taken.844 Detailed procedures were established for the summarising and reporting of foreign news by the Ministry of Propaganda to the Standing Committee.845 In accordance with the Standing Committee’s directive, staff at the Ministry of Propaganda monitored foreign news broadcasts in English and French.846 Reports from overseas news agencies and wire services were received via teleprinter, then copied and translated into Khmer for further distribution.847 268. Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried out similar work, listening to foreign radio reports on DK and preparing summary bulletins for the DK/CPK leaders.848 Witness SUONG Sikoeun, who worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1975 and became its Director of Information and Propaganda in 1977,849 stated that he and his colleagues were responsible for monitoring programs in French, English, Chinese and Vietnamese.850 They were instructed to report what they heard 843 See e.g. NUON Chea Defence Closing Submissions, paras 156, 157, 158, 163, 465, 474. Standing Committee Minutes, E3/231, 8 March 1976, p. 3, ERN (En) 00183362 (recording a work session on propaganda attended by POL Pot and NUON Chea and KHIEU Samphan). 845 The Ministry received the following two directives: (i) to “send news to Angkar every day as normal” in accordance with the established procedures, taking care to summarise and analyse important events about the regime so that the Standing Committee could properly understand the situation and take appropriate measures – news was to be collected from the Ministry by a messenger at 5.15pm daily; (ii) in special circumstances, to “telephone and report to Angkar immediately” if something important happened: see Standing Committee Minutes, E3/231, 8 March 1976, p. 3, ERN (En) 00183362. 846 T. 1 October 2012 (KHIEV En), pp. 19-20 847 T. 1 October 2012 (KHIEV En), pp. 19-20; T. 16 August 2012 (SA Siek), pp. 69-70; Standing Committee Minutes, E3/225, 1 June 1976, p. 2, ERN (En) 00182716. 848 T. 6 August 2012 (SUONG Sikoeun), pp. 40-41; Laurence PICQ Deposition, E3/98, 31 October 2008, p. 1, ERN (En) 00356359. 849 T. 6 August 2012 (SUONG Sikoeun), p. 33. 850 T. 6 August 2012 (SUONG Sikoeun), p. 40. See also, CHAN Youran Interview Record, E3/46, 27 November 2009, p. 4, ERN (En) 00410255 (stating that part of his role at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs involved “listening to the news on foreign radio stations”). 844 Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 146