ALERT MEMORANDUM TO NFIB PRINCIPALS RE. USSR-AFGHANISTAN (U)

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 27, 1979
• Content Type: NOTES

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 THE DIREC-`'R OF
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National Intelligence Officers NFAC #7015/79
27 December 1979
NOTE FOR: Walter Elder
Secretary, NFIB
FROM : NIO for Warning
SUBJECT : Alert Memorandum to NFIB
Principals re. USSR-Afghanistan (U)
Subject memorandum is attached for you
to distribute. (U)
Attachment:
As stated
7 rG Lenman
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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Co py 8 of 10
27 December 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Foreign Intelligence Board
REFERENCE . a) DCID 1/5, National Intelligence Warning
b) USIB-D-28.5/12, Procedures for Alert
Memoranda
SUBJECT : USSR-Afghanistan
I. As you are aware, the DCI issued an Alert Memorandum n.
which warned that the Soviets appeared to be builcinngg'
up for a major move into Afghanistan.
information.
believe that
n-af-it had begun. s a result, e , in e
interest o timeliness, issued an uncoordinated Alert Memorandum
as provided for in the references. A copy is attached for your
2. Fast moving developments
Attachment:
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ALERT MEMORANDUM
MEMORANDUM FOR: Secretary Vance
Secretary Brown
General David C. Jones
Dr. Brzezinski
SUBJECT : USSR-Afghanistan
As you know, we have been closely monitorinit Soviet military
activities in Afghanistan
move into g anistan.
ra-
it
If so, it will mark the first significant use of Soviet ground
forces outside the USSR and Eastern Europe since the end of World War II.
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