INTERAGENCY INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT: GRENADA: A FIRST LOOK AT MECHANISMS OF CONTROL AND FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT

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Approved For Release 2008/01/29: CIA-RDP85MOO364RO01502590017-5 25X1 SECRE -,/ The Director of Central Intelligence Washington, D.C. 20505 National Intelligence Council DDI- December 1983 19 MEMORANDUM FOR: Robert C. MacFarlane Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs FROM: Robert M. Gates Chairman, National Intelligence Council SUBJECT: Interagency Intelligence Assessment: GRENADA: A FIRST LOOK AT MECHANISMS OF CONTROL AND FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT 1. Attached is the Interagency Intelligence Assessment: GRENADA: A FIRST LOOK AT MECHANISMS OF CONTROL AND FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT that was requested by the President pursuant to National Security Decision Directive 112 of 15 November 1983. This preliminary assessment was prepared under the es of the Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Latin America. from the National Intelligence Council's Analytic Group served as the principal drafter. 2. DIA informs us that since this paper was drafted, at least a few hundred additional linear feet of documents have been recovered, including large amounts from the residences of Maurice Bishop and Bernard Coard. DIA estimates it will take their working group at least until early January to catalogue and to complete an initial survey of the documents for exploitation purposes. As soon as we know how much new-information is contained in these documents, we will reconvene the NFIB Representatives to coordinate a Concept SDD Paper and Terms of Reference for the more in-depth study called for in N d . um 112 which will be published as an Interagency Intelligence Memoran Roy Godson of your staff informed us that there was great Mr 3 . . interest in the "American" connection to the documents. We have discussed this with the FBI liaison contact and propose that you task the Attorney General directly with pursuing this issue. We do not think a discussion of the involvement of US citizens in Grenada should be included in any paper prepared by the Intelligence Community. Robert M. Gates Attachment: as stated above or,xj 25X1 Approved For Release 2008/01/29: CIA-RDP85MOO364ROO15O2590017-5