INVITATION FROM HAROLD BROWN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R000600110005-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 3, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
NIC #06765-84
3 December 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH: Chairman, National Intelligence Council 0--tt~~
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Counci`P
FROM: Fritz W. Ermarth
National Intelligence Officer for USSR
SUBJECT: Invitation from Harold Brown
1. Harold Brown has asked me to address a seminar group he chairs
periodically at SAIS, to introduce a discussion of Soviet views of the
US-Soviet relationship (attached are the invitation letter, a list of
participants, and an outline of my proposed remarks).
2. Although the subject matter, timing, and participants could make
this a slightly tricky occasion, I am confident that I can make a useful
contribution while staying out of trouble on policy or security grounds,
having done this kind of thing often over the years. I chanced to meet
Simon Serfatry the other day -- he supports Harold Brown on this project.
He said that Richard Perle spoke to the group entirely off the record, and
it would accept those rules if I were permitted to speak.
3. Bob Gates advised that you ought to rule on this one personally. I
recommend that you approve my participation.
4. The group is fairly balanced, although I'd characterize its center
of gravity as somewhat to the "left" on US-Soviet issues. I've heard from
participants that the group is one of the best discussion fora of the many
that operate, frequently with the same dramatis personnae, in this town.
Moreover, Harold Brown is a very responsible figure and will respect the
ground rules under which I must operate.
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5. We should be very sparing addressing the policy "intelligentsia" of
this town outside the government. But occasionally opportunities come along
to raise the sobriety level and, in so doing, to gain respect for the Agency
and to make sensible policymaking easier.
6. As you can see from my proposed talk outline, I would focus solely
on the Soviet Union and describe the various.-9 fluences on its policy toward
the US currently.
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