NIC ACTIVITY REPORT FOR 29 NOVEMBER - 3 DECEMBER 1982

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2007
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: December 3, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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National Intelligence Council
3 December 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : NIC Activity Report for 29 November - 3 December 1982
I. DCI/DDCI-Assigned Tasks
NIOs began work on producing materials for the DCI's Worldwide
Congressional Briefing package for January and February 1983.
Chairman, NIC testified on the Hill before the Joint Economic
Committee on prospects for the Soviet economy.
NIO/NESA accompanied the DDCI to a 29 November SIG meeting on Libya
at which the "Stair Step" plan was approved.
II. Interagency Papers
The draft Memo to Holders of the 1981 NIE on Greece and the draft
NIE on political instability are ready for discussion at the NFIB
meeting scheduled for 8 December.
Drafts of the revised US-Japan economic relations NIE and the SNIE
on high-technology arms markets are nearing the final stages of
preparation and should be ready for an NFIB meeting in the week
preceding Christmas.
Work began today to produce a brief, fast-track SNIE on the
possibility of hostilities on the Nicaraguan-Honduran border.
III. Of Special Interest This Week
Chairman, NIC interviewed two candidates for the polul~ &T
job:
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C/NIC along with NI0/Economics and f DI/OGI attended a
SIG-IEP meeting on 29 November on East European debt (Yugoslavia and
Poland), and alternative energy prospects. Ibriefed the meeting
on the latter.) On 30 November, C/NIC and NIO/E attended a meeting with
UnderSecretary of State for Economic Affairs Allen Wallis to discu
followup actions on the Shultz "non-paper." (NIO/E and
TTAC/OSWR, participated in a Working Group meeting on 1 December on
East-West technology transfer as one specific followup.)
C/NIC, NI0/E, and other Agency officers met on 2 December with
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
Richard McCormack to discuss how best to provide him with the
intelligence support he needs.
NIOs, Assistant NIOs, and AG members were briefed on NSA's
organization, functions, and capabilities per. arrangements made through
the Deputy Director, NSA. We will accept NSA's invitation for detailed
followup briefings at Fort Meade for each NIO on his area.
NIO at Large I I was interviewed on 30 November on the
subject of Brazil in the 1960s for a public television program to be
shown on 28 December.
NIO at Largel I arranged a session for the DCI with US
Ambassador to Pakistan Ronald Spiers on nuclear and other issues in US-
Pakistan relations. C/NIC and NI0/NESA also participated.
A/NIO/AL participated in the final session of the small nuclear
forces project at Georgetown's CSIS. The project director (R. Jones)
will present results of the project at a briefing in the DCI Conference
Room next week.
NIO/Near East-South Asia and his assistants attended a State-
sponsored seminar on Iran on 29 November. He also prepared a memo for
the DCI in conjunction with the DI and DO, on the Pakistan-US nuclear
weapons issue; participated on 30 November in an interagency meeting
chaired by Assistant Secretary of Defense West to review the status of
US military support for Lebanon; and sent to selected policymakers a
contingency analysis of the implications of Jordan acting alone in
advancing the US peace initiative in the Middle East.
NIO/Strategic Programs met with CIA, Air Force Intelligence, OSD,
and NSC staff personnel to go over his testimony on MX for the SSCI on
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8 December. He will also be invited to testify to the Senate Armed
Services Committee next week.
NI0/USSR-East Europe attended a meeting of the Poland Working Group
to devise a policy on the lifting of martial law.
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NI0/Western Europe participated in a meeting at State on
29 November on the US-Greece base negotiations. He also briefed the
West European COS conference on 2 December on developments in the area
and intelligence requirements.
IV. Future Activities
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assumed his new position here as NIO for Warning on