SIG ON THE TRANSFER OF STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R000500120013-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2009
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: May 4, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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NSC review completed.
TRANSMITTAL SLIP DATE 54/82
TO:
Executive Registry
ROOM NO. BUILDING
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State Dept. review completed
FORM NO R 364
1 FEB 55. 241 WHICH CMAYUBE USED.
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4 May 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM:
Chief, Technology Transfer Assessment Center
SUBJECT: SIG on the Transfer of Strategic Technology
1. This SIG is largely the result of NSC (Gus Weiss)
efforts to establish an international counterpart to the Justice-
led Interagency Working Group (IAWG) on Domestic Export Control
Enforcement. It also represents an effort on the part of Under
Secretary Buckley's people to get him out in front of Commerce
and Defense (and the East-West Trade people in State) on this
issue.
2. The principal thrust of the SIG is to stop/stem/inhibit
the flow of US and Western technology to the Soviet Bloc. While
export controls are a major tool in this effort, the DCI's
counterintelligence and foreign intelligence liaison
responsibilities are equally, if not not more, important since
the vast majority of "strategic" technology being lost is the
result of Soviet Bloc intelligence activities.
3. This SIG and its Interagency Committee will need strong
IC support if it is to be successful. DO understanding and
cooperation in this effort is crucial.
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Distribution:
Orig. - Addressee
1 - EX/DIR
1 - Executive Registry
1 - ADDI
1 - OSWR Chrono
1 - _C/TTAC
1 - TTAC Subject File
1 - TTAC Chrono
OSWR:TTAC:
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Senior Interagency
TO: OVP
NSC
ACDA
CIA
Commerce
Defense
Energy
JCS
Justice
NASA
Treasury
UNA
Group ' No.
Mrs. Nancy Bearg Dyke
Mr. Michael Wheeler
Mr. Joseph Presel
Mr. Thomas B. Cormack+/
Ms. Jean Jones
Col. John Stanford
Mr. William Vitale
Maj. Dennis J. Stanley
Mr. F. Henry Habicht
Mr. Kenneth Pedersen
Mr. David Pickford
Amb. Harvey Feldman
of Strategic Technology
The Senior Interagency Group on the Transfer of
Strategic Technology will hold its initial meeting at
3:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 5, in Room 7219 of the State
Department. The meeting is expected to last between
60 and 90 minutes.
Under Secretary James L. Buckley will be in the
chair.
Attendance will be principal plus one. You are
requested to telephone the names of your representatives
to Ms. Judith Epstein on 632-0410 by COB.Tuesday, May 4.
The agenda of the meeting will be:
1. Opening Statement
2. Discussion of TOR
3. Briefing - CIA ~---`
4. Other business
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L. Paul Bremer, III
Executive Secretary
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CONFIDENTIAL
TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. Background
Continued access by the Soviet Union and its allies to
advanced Western technology is a matter of great concern to
this Administration. Overt and covert Soviet acquisition;
both in the U.S.ana abroad, of sophisticated equipment and
know-how has significantly enhanced its military production
capabilities and military power. The organization, scope, and
tempo of U.S. Government efforts to stem this flow, though
recently increased, is fragmented.and insufficient in rela-
tion to the magnitude of the problem. The Administration
needs a central forum for policy formation, coordination,
and implementation on this issue if its efforts to counter
this threat are to.achieve maximum effectiveness.
II. Senior Interagency Group on the Transfer of Strata is c
Technol
A. The objectives of this group will be:
1. to serve as a central policy-making forum in the
U.S. Government's effort to inhibit acquisition
of militarily-relevant equipment and technologies
by the Soviet Union and its allies,
2. to direct the implementation of policy in this
area,
3.- to oversee and coordinate the activities of the
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.interagency community on strategic technology
transfer issues, and
4. to resolve issues elevated to it from any
existing interagency structure.
S. The membership of this group will include represen-
tatives from State, CIA, OSD, JCS, OVP, Co coerce, UNA,
DOE, Treasury, Justice, NSC, NSA, ACDA, and NASA.
C. The chairmanship of this group will be held by the
Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance,
Science, and Technology.
III. Interagency Committee on Special Projects in Strategic
Technology Transfer
A. The objectives of this group will be:
1. to identify specific strategic technology problems,
to develop strategies in response, and, with SIC
approval, to coordinate interagency implementation
of these plans,
and in this regard the Committee will propose
specific measures
2. to persuade foreign governments to strengthen
their control over strategic technology,
3. to raise the priority given to this problem by
U.S. Government representatives abroad,
4. to systematically acquire information' on diver-
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sionary systems and attempt to curtail
them.
B. The members of this committee will be State, DOD,
DOE, Commerce, CIA, Customs, NSA, Justice, FBI,
and NSd.
C. The chairmanship of this committee will be held by
the Director of the Bureau of Politico -Military
Affairs in the Department of State.
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