STATUS OF STUDY ON STRATEGICALLY SITUATED THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2007
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• Publication Date: April 23, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM:
Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT:
Status of Study on Strategically
Situated Third World Countries
REFERENCES:
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Executive Director Memorandum dated
8 April 1982, Subject: Assessments
of Third World Countries
Your memorandum dated 29 March 1982,
Subject: Assessment of Strategically
Situated Third World Countries
1. The resources we had planned to devote to producing
the broad assessment you requested on the effectiveness of
military and economic aid given to certain developing countries
were used to do the short paper on US assistance to strategically
situated countries that was forwarded to you on 22 April.
Consequently, if the broader study is still desired, we will
get a rough draft to you in early June.
2. Would you still like the broader study or did the
short paper, in combination with paper on US-
Soviet competition for influence in THE it orld, address
enough of your concerns to drop it? Another option would be
to write a second short paper, focusing this time on Soviet
assistance to their strategically situated LDCs.
3. I am attaching a copy of the concept paper and
terms of reference we had planned to work against for the
original study. Your comments on it, especially if the work
is to go forward, would be most welcomed.
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