OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT COUNSEL REQUEST #14

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP00M00244R000500050011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 5, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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9m CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Congressional Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20505
Telephone: [phone]
STAT
oca Point Officer, DCI
Office of Congressional Affairs have no
objections to the release of documents
forwarded under TPM1 215940 & TT1 112876
STAT
20 May 1987
FORM 533 OBSOLETE
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EDITIONS.
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SNRET
5 May 1987
SUBJECT: Office of Independent Counsel Request #14
1. Attached is the material you requested from the files of the NIO/USSR
regarding a briefing he and the NIO/LA gave to Mike Epstein of Senator Byrd's
staff on Soviet and Cuban policy toward Latin America in January 1985 (page 10
of the request).
2. We have no material in our files regarding the breakfast NIO/USSR
attended with a group of Senators and Congressmen on 28 April 1986 on Soviet
activity in Central America. A conversation with the former NIO/USSR
indicated that he never wrote up anything about that particular session
(page 5).
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CONFIDENTIAL
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D.C. 20505
NIC 01465-85
15 March 1985
National Intelligence Council
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
FROM: Robert D. Vickers, Jr.
National Intelligence Officer for Latin America
SUBJECT: Meeting with Senate Staffers
1. On 14 March 1985, I met with Christopher Manion, a staff
assistant to Senator Jesse Helms, to discuss the forthcoming briefing on
19 March with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I outlined in
brief the subjects we were planning to address with the Committee.
Mr. Manion asked that we also be prepared to address the subject of
Sandinista disinformation and Sandinista involvement in drug
trafficking. He also mentioned that we should be prepared to provide
specific intelligence information to help
make our case.
2. On 15 March, I met with Mike Epstein, a staff assistant to
Senator Robert Byrd and an ex officio representative to the SSCI.
Mr. Epstein wanted to discuss the recent estimate on the prospects for
Sandinista consolidation. In particular, he wanted to know the genesis
of the estimate and who had reviewed and coordinated it at each step of
the way. It was obvious to me that he had read the estimate carefully
from cover to cover and was trying to determine if it had been influenced
in any way by policy direction. I assured him that it had not been and
that in fact I had gone out of my way to try to ensure that it was as
objective as possible in its language and presentation. He then
surprised me by asking if we intended to have the Key Judgments
declassified. I told him that we would not as this was not normally
done, but that the Annex had been declassified as well as the table on
Sandinista policy statements. He mentioned that he thought that this
would be an extremely important estimate in influencing Senate opinion,
and that I should expect to be questioned on it closely in any testimony
for the SSCI. He added that I should be prepared to address the question
of why there is such a difference between the Intelligence Community's
assessment of the Sandinista regime and that provided by the numerous
American clergy and other individuals more sympathetic to the Sandinistas.
Executive Regist
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