MEMO FOR RECIPIENTS OF NIE 11-4-77, :SOVIET STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES" FROM GEORGE BUSH RE THE PRODUCTION OF NIE 11-3-/8-76 HAS DISCLOSED A WIDE RANGE OF VIEWS WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ON THE QUESTION OF SOVIET OBJECTIVES FOR STRATEGIC FORCES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005294624
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-01595
• Publication Date: January 18, 1977

THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Officers
18 January 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Recipients of NIE 11-4-77, "Soviet Strategic
Objectives"
FROM : George Bush
1. The production of NIE 11-3/8-76 has disclosed a wide
range of views within the Intelligence Community on the question
of Soviet objectives for strategic forces, a question on which
very little hard evidence is available. NIE 11-4-77, forwarded
herewith, examines the broader question of Soviet strategic
objectives overall, and is not intended to supersede NIE 11-3/8.
NIE 11-4 uses a presentational technique different from that of
11-3/8. It is intended to help the reader understand the argument,
rather than to resolve it.
2. For this reason NIE 11-4-77 is an unusual estimate. It
presents two general lines of argument without requiring the NFIB
principals to define their positions. Obviously, within these two
general positions there are differences of emphasis among the in-
dividual agencies, but I believe that to state these would be more
likely to hamper the reader's basic understanding of this important
issue than to assist it.
APPROVED FOR RELEASE^DATE:
23-Sep-2008
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