VISIT OF AMBASSADOR PICKERING (EL SALVADOR)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00886R001500010043-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2009
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: February 27, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECRET
THE DIRECTOR OF
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Council
27 February 1984
NOTE FOR: DCI
DDCI
C/NIC
FROM: John Horton
NI0/LA
SUBJECT: Visit of Ambassador Pickering
(El Salvador)
1. As you know, we are doing a pre-
election SNIE on El Salvador that should come
before NFIB on 6 March. Ambassador Pickering
will take part in a debriefing session on
28 February here in the building during which
we will get his views of the election.
2. We have told him that we would prepare
an Interagency Assessment on death squads,
both to do the definitive paper on this and also
to put it in political context. For that
reason we plan to do the paper when the
election is over, as the death-squad operation
will be affected by the results of the election.
He requested the paper when expressing his
displeasure at an Assessment done for
Vice President Bush on the results of the
Vice President's representations to the
government of El Salvador.
John Horto
SECRET
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THE DIRECTOR OF
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT: Ambassador Pickering's Use of the SNIE
on El Salvador
1. See the attached message from
Ambassador Pickering about--the SNIE, Near Term
Military Prospects for El Salvador. Here is an
example of an Ambassador getting some mileage out
of a SNIE. The Chairman/NIC seems to despair at
times about the circulation and readership of
estimates. One might infer from this case that an
Ambassador reaches for a SNIE when he is in deep
trouble, as others turn to religion. "Whence cometh
my help?"
John Horton '
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