THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE TO MY REQUEST FOR CONCISE INFORMATION ABOUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001602930031-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: November 28, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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28 November 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Weapons and Space Systems Intelligence Committee
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
1. Thanks for your response to my request for concise information about
what the committee is doing, how well it is doing, and how it might do better.
I am impressed with and warmly commend the range of the committee's activities.
2. I would like to know more about your future agenda. Specifically,
when I give my worldwide briefing to the Military Affairs and Appropriations
Committees of both Houses in February, I want to be specific in focusing on
where we see enhanced Soviet weapons capabilities emerging. Instead of
telling them what the Soviets have, I'd like in this briefing to look over
the horizon and tell them what we see coming in terms not only of new weapons
but in enhanced capabilities for existing weapons and the strategic significance
which these enhancements may have. Your report mentions the need for more
work on conventional weapons. I particularly want to cover enhancements in
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4. I would like to meet with the committee at its convenience and get
a briefing on up-to-date developments in these areas and follow that with a
dialogue to see where we can both be of greater assistance to each other.
William J. Casey
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