SASC WORLDWIDE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00274R000100060009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 28, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2007/03/21 : CIA-RDP84B00274R000100060009-1
EA 82-0082/1
29 JAN' 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
25X1
 Approved For Release 2007/03/21: CIA-RDP84B00274R000100060009-1
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 of External Affairs
Distribution:
Orig - Addressee
1 - DD/OEA
1 - C/LLD
1 - EA Record
1 - EA Chrono
OEA:ACP:rjg (26 Jan 82)