MANNED SPACE STATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001602930105-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 105
• Publication Date: October 7, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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7 October 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Manned Space Station
The Cabinet will soon consider the national security need for US
space operations to include a permanently manned space station. The justifica-
tion. for the rather large proposed expenditures will be heavily influenced
by our intelligence assessment of Soviet military goals and efforts in
space in the 1990s. However, this threat assessment needs to be balanced
against the other major Soviet military threats that the US and its
allies will be facing during the same time period. For instance if the
Soviets greatly enhance their ground warfare capability throughout the
1980s, the US and its NATO allies would be required to spend billions of
dollars more on both ground weapons research and prodyution than we now
intend. If more were to be allocated for space, it could draw down on this
type of future requirement.
..T would like OSWR in concert with SOVA to conduct a future weapons
assessment of the overall military threat that the Soviets are likely to pose
during the 1990s. This future threat model should describe the kinds
of weapons by their general mission objectives,.e.g., spacebased to 'include
ASAT and BDM; naval to include SSBN, antiship, ASW and aircraft carriers;
ground to include tank SRBM, tactical air defense, etc. Furthermore? the
make up of each mission area should be displayed in relative size for the
1985 and the 1995 time periods. "Pie charts" should suffice to show these
proportions. OSWR should attempt to indicate how the relative military
threat will change for each, 'showing whether the threat to US/Western
forces will increase or decrease in that mission area.
I like the approach taken by the OSWR/SOVA team in developing the weapon-
mission analysis in the draft NIE 11-12 work and would like to have the two
offices work together on this task along the same lines.
William J. Casey
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