FORMAT FOR STATE MEETING - 28 FEBRUARY 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R002800040001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 28, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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28 February 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM
SUBJECT Format for State Meeting - 28 February 1978
You will be met on arrival at State by Bill Sergant,
State, L.A. Division; he will be your escort officer while
there. The meeting will be in a large conference room,
attended by 30-40 people. A list of those ambassadors
that will be present is attached, You will be seated at
a "T'? shaped table, next to They have
asked you to speak for approximately 15 minutes. You
will be followed by two L.A. ambassadors who will speak
for about 15 minutes (total). The remaining 15-30 minutes
is set aside for discussion.
Very resp tfully,
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Paul H. Boeher - Bogota Asencio Degio, Columbia
Davis E. Boster - Guatemala
John R. Burke -- Georgetown, Guyana
Paul Castro Buenos Aires, Argentina
Edward Corr - Quito, Ecquador
John H. Crimmins - Brazilia
Frank J. Devene San Salvador
Richard J. Fox Port of Spain, Trinidad
John Gawf - Belize, British Honduras
Robert Hurwitch - Santo Fomingo, Dominican Republic
Robert Irving - Kingston, Jamaica
Mari-Luci Jaramillo - Tegucigalpa, Honduras
William Jones - Port au Prince, Haiti
William Jorden -? Panama
Lyle Lane - Havana, Cuba
George Landow - Santiago, Chile
Patrick Lucey - Mexico City
Frank Prtiz - Bridgetown, Barbados
Grover Penberthy - Curacao
Lawrence Pezzullo - Montevideo, Uruguay
Howard Robertson - Martinique
William Schwartz Nassau
Harry Shlaudeman - Lima, Peru
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Mauicio Solaun - Managua, Nicaragua
Viron Veky - Caracas, Venezuela
Robert White - Asuncion, Paraguay
Owen Zurkellen Paramaribo, Surinam
Marvin Weissman - San Jose, Costa Rica
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28 February 1978
I. Two major steps evolution of intell
1. 30 years ago - Sov - mil
- US dominant political power
independent economic power
only threat: Soviet military
- Policy makers interested in
o Soviet activities elsewhere
4
o Covert action capability
Iran 53, Guatemala 54,
Cuba 60's
- World changed
More countries -
L.A. import
More topics
Econ, narcotics - of interest to you in L.A.
2. Tech revolution needed to complement
More HUMTNT
Open
Covert
II. Open
_ DCD in U. S._
No solution in field
e.g., US businesses
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Embassy role
Need way transmitting requirements w/o coopting foreign service
Suggestions
Don't want to pay price/risk of covert if overt available -
but must make Embassies aware of needs -
FOCUS exercise? effective?
(explain)
III. Covert - How dovetail w/Embassy overt
Fundamentally, the role of the Station, or
is-to collect needed foreign intelligence
which cannot be acquired from open sources and which for
various reasons is denied to US officials abroad. Examples:
1. -- The intentions and capabilities of governments
in denied areas -- primarily the USSR, Communist
Bloc countries, Cuba, China, etc. This means
that the Station in your country may be expending
considerable time and effort on these high
priority targets even though this nets you very
little, if any, local political intelligence
to assist you in the accomplishment of your
mission. The same is true of other third-country
information.
2. -- The intentions of terrorists. Since terrorists
operate in a clandestine fashion, only by
clandestine means can their plans be discovered.
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3. -- The same is true of narcotics traffickers
whose activities so harm the U.S. CIA
collects strategic info on narcotics, not
tactical. We report such things as local
government policy toward poppy cultivation.
DIA works at the tactical lvel.
v
4. P,oli ,ic, 1, and.;,economic information deliberately
withheld from U.S. officials by the host
government. Foreign governments, protecting
their own national interests, will sometimes
withhold from the U.S. Ambassador and his
staff political and economic information
which the U.S. considers important or
even vital to have. This could concern
the host government's plans to embark on
a nuclear weapons program, tactics they
plan to use in negotiations with the U.S.,
new tax laws designed to avoid just
recompense to U.S. investors,
. Political and
economic intelligence, collectible only
by the Station, is frequently fragmentary
but essential to understand the true
motives, exact timing, or the tactics of
the host government in an initiative it
plans which could affect the U. S.
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Usually the Station provides a missing piece
or pieces to a puzzle for which the Embassy
has already supplied and assembled most
of the picture.. There should not be a
duplication of effort. Thus, the Station
is not in competition with the Embassy,
it is part of the team.
IV. Bear in mind also - DCI Intell Advisor to President
Policy free advice
Hope COS privy to your views
I'll call on him
In D.C. dedicated to divergent analyses/interpretation --
INR vs FNAC
I will encourage COS's to hold to divergent
views. w/Ambas.
Keep you posted -- but neither clear nor
alter position.
Finally - must
Prepare for future
Lay seeds for next government
After all we are defenders of status quo and
in much world it's got problem, esp. L.A.
Covert action - controls - Perspectives
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Yes
But long run
But less than estimate
World leaders are realistic
We're good. -- getting better
Reductions
1) Criticality Human reporting
2) Criticality Open reporting
3) Criticality Emb. reporting
(for finished intel - L.A. only)
However -
- Each compliments the other
- Even a low return figure may include that
info critical to understanding the problem
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