ECONOMIC SANCTIONS: AN HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001000030011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 12, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2007SWROT
The Director of Central Intelligence
WSshinglon. D. C 20505
12 October 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Economic Sanctions: An Historical and Conceptual Analysis
On 7 August you asked that we undertake a historical and conceptual
analysis of. the use of economic sanctions in a variety of political settings.
This study includes these thirteen case histories of the application of
sanctions:
1935-36
1948-Present
1960
1961-62
1962-Present
1965-79
1971
1973-74
1977-80
1978-79
1980-81
1980-81
1982
League of Nations Sanctions on Italy
Arab League Boycott of Israel
USSR Sanctions on PRC
OAS/US Sanctions on Dominican Republic
US/OAS Sanctions on Cuba
UK/UN Sanctions on Rhodesia
French Sanctions on Algeria
OAPEC Oil Embargo on the United States
US Sanctions on Pakistan
US Trade Embargo on Uganda
US Sanctions on Iran
US Sanctions on USSR (Afghanistan)
EC Sanctions on Argentina
Drawing on the information in these case studies as well as on open
literature, we have examined each of the elements affecting the formulation
and implementation of sanctions. The result is a framework for understanding
the potential and limitations of sanctions as a foreign policy instrument,
which can be used to assess whether to impose sanctions as a sponsor and how
to respond to sanctions as their target.
I find'it an. extraordinary piece of research and analysis and most
interesting and think we should publish it. What is your view?
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William J. Casey
Attachment:
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