OSWR ASSESSMENT OF SOVIET ACTIVITIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS (IIASA)

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R002100110071-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2007
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: January 21, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: E. Wayne Boring
Director of Scientific and Weapons Research
SUBJECT: OSWR Assessment of Soviet Activities at the
International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA) II
.REFERENCE: Ltr to DDCI from Frank Press/National Academy
of Sciences dtd 4 Jan 82
1. Attached for your signature is a letter responding to Dr. Press'
letter of 4 January concerning our assessment of Soviet Activities t the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). u
2. Because Dr. Press questions whether we "touched all bases" and
raises the issue of the accuracy of our assessment, you should be aware
of the following background. Dr. Press saw an advance draft which was
made available to the National Academy of Sciences last November at the
request of the National Security Council (NSC) and the Office of Science
and Technology Policy (OSTP). Our ass ssment is substantively unchanged
in the final 'version (copy attached). I
3. We believe Dr. Press' letter arises directly from a two-week
lobbying effort last month by Dr. Roger Levien, the Director of IIASA
until last September. This effort involved Dr. Levien's initi and
having meetings at the NSC, State, OSIP, NSF, and on the Hill.
4. Dr. Levien's effort also included, at his request, meetings with
members of the Intelligence Community including of OSWR
the primary author of our assessment. At the meeting wit
Dr. Levien was invited to offer any evidence that contradicted intelligence
reporting and other evidence that the Soviets were engaged in technology
transfer and intelligence activities at IIASA, summarized in our assessment.
His answers were unpersuasive. (They are summarized in a memorandum for
the record, copy attached, prepared by who as the author of
our assessment was the main discussant with r. evien.) A more detailed
description of the discussion with Dr. Levien is being prepared by the
who was also present at the meeting and acted as
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SUBJECT: OSWR Assessment of Soviet Activities at the Intar nal
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
5. You should also be aware of the following additional information
about the US Government decision on its official participation in IIASA.
To date, participation has been accomplished by funding support of
$3 million annually, provided by the NSF to NAS, the latter representing
the US as a member nation of IIASA. Because of Soviet technology transfer
and intelligence activities at IIASA, the NSC in coordination with State
recommended US official withdrawal from IIASA on 1 January 1983. This
was approved at the Presidential level. Prior to this action NSF,
independent of these developments and because of severe budget cuts,
decided to drop its funding for IIASA, beginning with FY 1983. The NAS
was informed of both the NSC/State and NSF actions and was requested in
turn to advise IIASA's Executive Council last November of the US Government's
decision. The NAS representative did so but was persuaded by the Council to
hold off submission of formal notification for a few months, presumab
allow for lobbying efforts to reverse the Administration's decision.
6. It is our understanding that the Administration considers the
US Government's participation in IIASA as ending 31 December 1982 regardless
of how IIASA sees it. The Academy is of course free to continue its own
(unofficial) participation and to contribute any private funds it wants and
can raise on its own.
E. Wayne Boring
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