NIC ACTIVITY REPORT FOR 20-24 JUNE 1983

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00153R000200050007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 24, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
National Intelligence Council
NIC# 4652-83
24 June 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM : Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT : NIC Activity Report for 20-24 June 1983
I. DCI/DDCI-Assigned Tasks
Chairman, NIC and NIO/Latin America provided the DCI with written
comments on a State-produced draft on Central America for a SIG meeting
on 23 June.
NIO/Political-Paramilitary Threats produced a comprehensive
analysis of Central American trends and strategy alternatives for the
DCI's use at an NSPG meeting and a separate paper for the DCI's use at a
White House legislative strategy group meeting.
Acting NIO/Africa prepared talking points on Chad for the DCI's use
in his weekly meeting with Judge Clark.
A/NIO/Latin America prepared talking points for the DCI's briefing
for Vice President Bush.
NIO/Near East-South Asia prepared talking points on Lebanon for the
DCI's use in an NSPG meeting, and he participated in a working breakfast
with the DCI Deputy Secretary of State Dam, Ambassador Habib and others
to discuss US policy moves on the Middle East.
II. Interagency Papers
VC/NIC (C. Waterman), assisted by NIO/LA, A/NIO/LA, NIO/GPF and
others, participated in several meetings on and in drafting sections of
a fast-track Vulnerability Estimate on the Nicaraguan insurgency that is
to be presented to NFIB next week.
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The draft NIE on Warsaw Pact military reliability and a draft SNIE
on the Colombia drug trade were readied for next week's NFIB meeting.
III. Of Special Interest This Week
C/NIC met with the Defense Policy Board (with Undersecretary of
Defense Fred We and Deputy Secretary Thayer); principal topics were
exploitation of Soviet vulnerabilities in Eastern Europe, followup to
the President's "star wars" speech, and Soviet power projection.
VC/NIC (Waterman), accompanied by NI0/Economics, NIO/Near East-
South Asia, and NIO/Strategic Programs, met with Stephen Bosworth of
State's Policy Plans and his councilors to discuss the international
debt problem, the Near East, and Soviet potential SALT violations and
our ABM estimate respectively.
met with Alfred Kingon, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for International Economic Policy, and his five deputies to
discuss the recently-issued NIC Memorandum on trade portectionism.
Acting NI0/Africa participated in a meeting of the State-chaired
Economic Working Group on Africa to plan new studies on African
countries meriting US attention;
NIO at Large (H. Heymann) prepared an intelligence update and
talking points on CW/Toxin Use for Secretary Shultz' trip to the ASEAN
countries; and he gave a presentation on the intelligence role in
foreign policy to a FEMA conference at Governor's Island, NY.
NIO At Large (D. Low), accompanied by A/NI0/AL met
with Assistant Secretary of Energy Herman Roser and other DOE officials
involved in nonproliferation issues; and met with Intelligence Producers
Council and IC Staff officials concerning long-range planning for the
Intelligence Community.
NI0/East Asia participated with DI/OEA officers in briefing Adm.
Howe, director at State's P/M bureau, on the Philippine insurgency;
attended a Carnegie Endowment seminar on US-Japan trade problems; and
discussed Secretary Shultz' trip to Asia and China matters with the DCI.
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NI0/General Purpose Forces continued his participation in the
"Proud Prophet" wargame at the National Defense University, playing the
role of the DCI; and, together.with his assistants briefed US Ambassador
to NATO David Abshire on intelligence support to US and NATO forces,
East European military reliability, Warsaw Pact force readiness, and
other issues.
NI0/Latin m . John Negroponte
(Honduras) attended meetings at
State and a e o n uentral merica; an together with A/NIO/LA,
briefed the Senate Appropriations Committee on El Salvador.
NI0/NESA discussed Middle East issues separately with NIC
consultant
senior NSC Staffer Geoffrey Kemp, and NIC consultant
NI0/Political-Paramilitary Threats participated in meetings of the
White House Central America Communications Group (chaired by Amb.
Whittlesey; briefed Amb. Kirkpatrick and Undersecretary of State William
Schneider; met with Amb. Negroponte: and met for unclassified
NI0/Strategic Programs, along with NI0/S&T, met with
andl ~ to discuss their work
on Soviet non-acoustic ASW and the Intelligence Community-Navy
differences on this problem; briefed the DCI's STAP on the NIE 11-3/8
treatment of Soviet non-acoustic ASW, reasons for our change in view,
and the history of the problem in NIE 11-3/8; and, together with OSWR
officers, gave briefings on the Soviet ABM estimate to the Standing
Consultative Commission headed by Gen. Ellis and to the Technology
Working Group for
NIO/S&T attended the periodic meeting of the DCI's STAP and started
up the working group focusing on drafting the Soviet R&D estimate.
IV. Future Activities
Chairman. NIC leaves this afternoon to attend a 25-27 June
conference on "
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SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 20-24 June 1983
Distribution:
1 - DCI
1 - DDCI
1 - EXDIR
1 - SA/IDA
1 - ER
1 - DD I
1 - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC
1 - D/AG
1 - Each NIO
1 - NIC/AG
1 - E0/NIC
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