THE BASIS OF A COMMON ALLIED POLICY ON ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001000030053-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: September 7, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECRET
Th cub's Regia
82-5849
7 September 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Intelligence Officer for Economics
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: The Basis of a Common Allied Policy on Economic
Relations with the USSR
I think your paper on a common Allied policy on economic relations
with the USSR represents a good start on a difficult task. It seemed to me
that the conclusions in the first paragraph were to some extent contradicted
by the subsequent content of the paper and the SOVA paper on the impact of
Western oil and gas equipment and technology. It seemed to me that a
misleading impression was left by your focusing the paper in the first two
sentences on influencing Soviet policies which could be read to exclude
impacting the development and capabilities and then by talking about forcing
Moscow to modify its policies when perhaps all we are talking about is
requiring them to make some choices. In any event, I think we will have to
see the additional data called for before we can comprehensively turn to the
whole scope of the paper which I agree should incorporate much of the SOVA
paper. I attach a draft terms of reference for the SNIE which 25x1
drafted forme. I would broaden the subject of the estimates to something
like the relationship of restrictions on Western assistance to the enhancement
of Soviet military threat, not confining assistance to the pipeline. One
other question in my mind is I'm not sure whether you want to actually propose
the framework of a deal between the Allies to cope with this problem or whether
it would be better to confine ourselves to intelligence estimates of the
attitude of the Allies to measures which would address dealing with the Soviet
threat in this way and the impact of such measures on their security, trade
and defense sharing posture. /'-'`
Attachments:
(1) Draft TOR
(2) Paper, "The Basis of a Common Allied Policy on
Economic Relations with the USSR"
(3) Paper, "Implications for the Soviet Economy of
Embargo on Oil and Gas Equipment and Technology"
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