LETTER TO BARRY M. GOLDWATER FROM(SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00148R000500980043-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2008
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: December 3, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Honorable Barry M. Goldwater
Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510.
As part of the continuing review of CIA programs, the Deputy Director for
Intelligence has convoked an outside working group to review the Agency's
program for estimating Soviet military expenditure. The working group will be
chaired by me and will consist of a number of outside consultants. They will
review the basis of the current estimates; the confidence and inherent
limitations in these; and the uses to which the estimates are put.
As part of its deliberations, the group will solicit the views of a wide
cross-section of observers, both within and without the government. The
purpose of this letter is to extend an invitation to you and members of your
Committee, or to a staff mem`ber, to present the group with your views on the
utility of - the estimates. I will be in touch with you to learn your response
and, if you are willing, to make suitable arrangements for the meeting.
If you wish, you may submit a written statement to the group, (at any
level of classification you deem appropriate), either in preparation for your
meeting or subsequently. We can discuss arrangements for a statement when we
make arrangements for your appearance.
In the meetings of the working group (which may be conducted at any level
of classification), all questions and answers will be transcribed, except
where the respondent requests to go "off the record". Access to the
transcripts of these proceedings, including any statements submitted, will be
controlled by me (subject to the rules of handling classified materials).
STAT
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