POTENTIAL CRISIS AREAS - SURVEY OF MILITARY DATA BASES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000900060027-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: June 14, 1974
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT` 'o ntia1 Crisis Areas -e Survey of Military
Data Bases
1. OSR has been tasked by the DCI to survey the
intelligence community's military data bases pertaining
to potential crisis-areas world wide, and to insure the
availability of adequate data relating to such areas
during critical periods.
2. The first step I plan to undertake will be the
identification of "Potential Crisis Areas". Since situations
are constantly changing I suggest that in identifying crisis
areas and potential crisis areas that we look down the road
for a period of one to two years. Also in the absence of a
precise definition of a "crisis Area" I suggest we include
those situations which have a bearing on US policy or interests
or could hu.ve such a bearing.
3. The second step will be to determine what kinds
of information your analysts will need in terms of military
data to do the most effective job of analysis. For the
present I am concerned only with the kinds of information
needed and this should be as complete as possible on an all
source basis.
4+. The third step will be to determine how much of
the desired information is presently available. This will
mean somewhere in the Intelligence Community and not necessarily
within the Agency alone.
5. Apart from the information outlined :A)ove I would
appreciate any comments appropriate to the project which will
make it more responsive in terms of individual analytical
functions.
6. I am located in OSR in Room 3F39. My phones are
25X1
25X1
Your cooperation and assist r e ;,i,l-~
be greatly appreciated.
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SUBJECT Potential Crisis Areas
I. Listed below are a number of so-called "potential
crisis areas:. They are listed by geographic area for con-
venience. Would you please have your analysts check over this
list and make appropriate additions or deletions. I would
appreciate any additional comments. Send any responses to
me in room 3F29. I would appreciate having these responses
by 15 July when I return from two weeks leave.
ASIA
Area
Sino-Soviet Border
Korean Peninsula
South China Sea
(Paracels, Spratleys, exploitation
of marine resources and use of sea
lanes through the area)
Yellow Sea (exploitation of marine
resources)
Sino-India Border
Indo-Pakistani Border
Taiwan Straits
India Ocean
Northern Islands Issue
Sino-Burma
Sino-Lao-Thai
Internal Insurgencies
Countries Involved
USSR, PRC
North and South Korea,
US, China, USSR
PRC, ROC, Philipines,
S. Vietnam, Japan, US,
USSR, Indonesia.
China, North and South
Korea.
China, India, possibly
Pakistan
India, Pakistan (possible.
China, USSR and even l.Tti
PRC, ROC, US
India, USSR) Iran'?US
USSR, Japari
PRC, Burma
..PRO., Laos, Thailand
Thailand, Malaysia,
Philippines.
Cambodia Vietnams
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North & South Vietnam,US
PRC, USSR
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MIDDLE EAST
11 Area Countries Involved.
Arab-Israeli
Greece-Turkey
(includes Cyprus)
Israel, Egypt, Syria, USSR,
Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia
Greece-Turkey
Iraq-Iran "(Kurdish Problem) Iraq Iran, USSR
Pakistan-Afghan Pakistan, Afghanistan, USSR,
India, PRC
Oil Producing Area OPEC countries
USSR, Rumania
Yugoslavia (includes possible Yugoslavia, Italy, USSR
Tito succession problem and
confrontation with Italy over
bong standing dispute over
Trieste.
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LATIN AMERICA
Peru-Chile
Cuba
Panama
Peru, Chile, Possibly Bolivia
Cuba
Panama
Argenti a
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AFRICA
Countries Involved
Ethiopia-Somali Ethiopia-Somali
Angola-Mozambique Angola, Mozambique, Portugal
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