IRAN NATIONAL POLICY PAPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000400140016-8
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 3, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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3 OCT 1966
airman, Policy Planning Council
Department of State
OR: Mr. Uenry D. Owen .d'
ran National Policy Paper
Part One of the National Policy Paper on Iran
Viewed at various stages by the Central
ce Agency. We have no significant disagreements
he intelligence judgments contained in the policy
I endorse those provisions in the paper
ve a bearing on US intelligence activities, I
mo do nt to ' make on the broader aspects of US
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award Iran, these being outside the competence
al the Central Intelligence Agency and the Director of
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ntelligence.
'js% Richard helms
lichard Bolas
Di rEctor
3 0 SEP 1966
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Distribution:
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1 - D/OCI
(29 September 1966)
1 - Addressee
1 - Executive Registry
1 - Director's Chrono
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1 - Exec Chrono
-O/DDI NPP File (Iran) w/Basic
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3 0 S E P 1966
NDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT
Iran National Policy Paper
1. Please sign and forward the attached letter to
the Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department
of State indicating Agency approval of Part One of the
National Policy Paper on Iran (Basic).
2. The paper has been reviewed within the Agency
through several drafting stages and has undergone a final
review by the Directorate of Intelligence, the Clandestine
Services, and the Office of National Estimates. There are
no significant disagreements with the intelligence judg-
ments in Part One of the paper, and the Chairman of the
Board of National Estimates agrees that it is substantially
consistent with NIB-34-66, "Iran," dated 24 March 1966,
and with
3. The policy paper advises that the US Government
should accept, and indeed foster, the development of a
now relationship between Iran and the UnIt Stateal
The paper recognizes that, while
in not committed to any particular form of govern-
ment in Iran, the Shah remains for the foreseeable future
the keystone of Iran's political structure and, as such,
should be supported. At the same time, the paper argues
that it in in the US interest to encourage cautiously
Iran's political evolution toward broader-based and more
effective government, better able to resist internal
insurgency.
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4. 1 recommend that you concur in Part One of the
paper by signing the attached memorandum and forwarding
it to the Chairman, Polity Planning Council, Department
of State.
z R. J. I.i:' i 1i
R. J. SMITH
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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