SASC WORLDWIDE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2006
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• Publication Date: January 28, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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EA 82-0082/1
28 January 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM : Director, Office of External Affairs
SUBJECT : SASC Worldwide Intelligence Briefing
1. The DCI is scheduled to appear before the Senate Armed Services
Committee (SASC) on 1 February 1982 as part of the Committee's posture
hearings in review of the defense authorization request for FY83. The
briefing is scheduled to begin at 1000 hours in room S-407, The Capitol.
A transcript will be taken.
2. As mentioned in the Committee's letter dated 8 January 1982, the
primary purpose of the worldwide briefing is to identify long-term worldwide
and regional military, political and economic trends affecting U.S. security.
The secondary purpose is to receive information on current worldwide security
events and problems.
3. In light of these guidelines, the following is a list of priorities
that the Committee has identified by topic and region:
a. USSR - Still Principal Threat
- Military strength (conventional/nuclear)
Economic problems
- Political forecast
- Foreign policies
- U.S./arms negotiations
- Europe (East and West)
- Third World
- Technology race
-Possible breakthroughs (space, lasers, armor countermeasures
and air defense, etc.)
b. Europe - Soviet role in supporting "Peace movements" in various
European countries
INF/Negotiations/Reactions
- Poland
- Greece
- Spain
c. Middle East
- Libya/Terrorism
- Morocco/Western Sahara dispute
- Egypt
- Persian Gulf/Gulf cooperation council
- Lebanon elections and Syrian/Israeli dispute
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d. Close to Home - Central America
- Cuba
- Internal/Foreign Policies/Insurgencies
- Nicaragua
- El Salvador
- Soviet Activities in the region
e. China - PRC reaction to a U.S. decision to sell FX aircraft to
Taiwan (near-term and long-range impact)
- Military/Political/Economics
- Taiwan Military Balance
- Stability of and pressures on Deng's government
f. South Asia
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan/India
g. Far East - PRC activities/policies in Indochina
- Kampuchea/Vietnam
- Thailand
- Korean Peninsula
h. Africa
- Chad
- Ethiopia/Somalia
- Angola/South Africa/Namibia
- Zaire
i. Nuclear Proliferation
- Pakistan, etc.
4. The Committee is anxiously awaiting this hearing since it represents
a "kick-off" for the new Congressional year. I will forward questions that
will be raised as soon as I receive them.
Director, Office o External Affairs
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Briefing of
Senate Armed Services Committee
Monday, 1 February 1982
10:00 a.m.
S-407, The Capitol
(Worldwide Intelligence)
SASC Members
John G. Tower (R., TX), Chairman
Strom Thurmond (R., SC)
Barry M. Goldwater (R., AZ)
John W. Warner (R., VA)
Gordon J. Humphrey (R., NH)
William S. Cohen (R., ME)
Roger W. Jepsen (R., IA)
Dan Quayle (R., IN)
Jeremiah Denton (R., AL)
John C. Stennis (D., MS)
Henry M. Jackson (D., WA)
Howard W. Cannon (D., NV)
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (I., VA)
Sam Nunn (D., GA)
Gary W. Hart (D., CO)
J. James Exon (D., NE)
Carl M. Levin (D., MI)
Staff Members
Rhett B. Dawson, Staff Director
Jim Locher
Frank Sullivan, Minority Staff Director
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