QUESTIONS RAISED BY SOUTH AFRICAN STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003400080021-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 16, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment
Director, Geographic and Cartographic Research
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Questions Raised by South African Study
1. I just read your excellent study, "Could Partition Resolve
the South African Dilemma? Please pass my compliments to
on a very thorough piece of work.
2. Looking at this raises two questions in my mind, however,
The first is whether we can afford the prodigious amount of effort
and cost that must have gone into doing this just because a member
of the NSC Staff asks for it. I hope that we really thought this
was going to be a worthwhile effort for a much larger audience
than simply Tom Thornton (and I'm not taking any exception with Tom
who I think is a fine and productive member of the NSC Staff).
It does seem to me, however, that if we are constrained in resources
we must have some set of controls for saying no, even though we
would like to be responsive.
3. My second problem is whether we can afford to accept a
stricture as to distribution. Any time I see the NSC telling us
not to distribute something, I get nervous. I'm sure there was no
intent to restrict us here, but if we were doing something that
couldn't be distributed, it reinforces the question of whether we
could afford the resources to do the job in the first place. I have
increased the distribution with a personal note to the Vice President
and Ambassador Young, as I think they both would be quite interested
in this topic.
4. No reply required.
STANSFIELD TURNER-
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