PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING COORDINATOR

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00401R002400190011-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 1, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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1 December 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of National Foreign
Assessments Center
FROM Presidential Briefing Coordinator
1. Attached is my memorandum summarizing the Presidential
briefing topics being worked, my memorandum to the DCI in
preparation for the 6 December briefing, four outlines of
briefings in preparation and a collection of nominations for
future briefings.
2. Please review the following outlines and indicate
any changes we should incorporate.
a. French Foreign Policy
b. Estimating Soviet Military Manpower
c. Detection of Mobile Missile Deployments
d. Chinese Shopping for Western Technology
3. Please review the following nominees and indicate
whether we should continue working on them to, the point of
producing outlines.
a. Nuclear Issues In Countries the President
will visit. The draft prepared in October is
enclosed. If you agree, this will be updated
and reworked to focus on the countries the
President now plans to visit while upgrading
the paper.
b. Costing Soviet Forces. An earlier briefing
is enclosed. If you agree, we will coordinate
this topic with the one on estimating manpower
and will update it to be current as of January
1978.
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c. US Research Capability on the USSR. Memoranda
from NIO/Economics and NIO/USSR are attached.
If you agree, we will work on this for early
January.
d. Impact of Reduced Oil Production on the World
Economy. The Director of Economic Research
is not sure he can estimate this impact
before the President's trip,. but whenever he
can I recommend that we proceed directly to a
Presidential briefing on the topic.
e. Profile of the Arab Rejection Front. The
NIO/Near East & South Asia recommends this
profile of governments, leaders and their
prospects to include both rejectionist Arab
states and fedayeen groups be considered for
late December or early January. If you
agree, we still will hold this in abeyance
until the dust clears from the current confusion
as to who stands where in the Mideast.
f. Egypt 1978: The NIO/NE&SA is working on an
interagency paper to be issued 1 February.
If you agree we will plan to brief that paper
the last week of January presuming that we
understand'what Egypt's 1978 prospects look
like by then.
g. Telemetry: This item is under discussion
between NFAC and DDS&T. I am simply holding
it on the record until a clear recommendation
emerges. I recommend you ignore this one for
the time being.
h. North Korean Military Productions. The NIO/East
Asia & Pacific recommends covering NK military
productions or defense policy. Recent pictures
indicate NK is building a T-62 type tank which
would enhance its capability against the ROK. If
you agree, we will work toward an early January
briefing.
Attachments:
As stated
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