FY 75 KIQ STRATEGY REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01500R000200110036-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: October 31, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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FY 75 KIQ STRATEGY REPORT
KIQ 25: What are the size and composition of the Warsaw
Pact and NATO forces in the NATO Guidelines Area (NGA)?
I. COMMUNITY COLLECTION AND PROpUCTION STRATEGY
A. The priority with respect-to this KIQ will be on the
development of a National MBFR data base. The emphasis
will be on data in sufficient detail to support the MBFR
negotiations. The information must include identification
and location of all Warsaw Pact military units and in
stallations in the NGA; aggregate manpower levels of
NATO and Warsaw Pact ground and air forces personnel in
the NGA; composition of NATO and Warsaw Pact ground forces
in the NGA (with a breakdown of personnel assigned to
combat, rear services, command and support activities);
composition of NATO and Warsaw Pact air and air defense
forces, listing personnel by service and function; ag-
gregate counts of key items of equipment -- tanks, air-
craft, artillery, nuclear weapons and missiles -- in the
N.GA.by force and country; and Warsaw Pact unit TOE data.
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Production. The primary community output will be in the
US MC-16l position paper/NIE 11-14 effort. DIA, CIA and
will be the principal participants under the aegis
of the NIO. NOTE: Readiness, mobilization and reinforce-
ment are considered in KIQ 27; logistics ~n KIQ 28.
III. COMMENTS OF THE NIO/CF
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A. The greatest evident deficiency at the outset of work on
this KIQ' is the insufficient number of analysts assigned
at CIA and DIA to work in this area in the short term
because of the demands for MBFR support. Although gener-
ally speaking adequate amounts of information are collected
there are some areas where additional effort is needed.
More useful data can probably be provided by:
co-=unity is to provide the support required by Secretary
Schlesinger in his attempts to optimize NATO conventional
B. It does not seem profitable to reduce the present level
of analytic effort devoted to MBFR, but if the-Intelligence
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