BRIEFING OF AMBASSADOR ABRAMOWITZ, D/INR ON AFGHANISTAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M00539R001702570004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 3, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Briefing of Ambassador Abramowitz, D/INR on Afghanistan
1. On 2 December I briefed Ambassador Abramowitz on
Afghanistan at his request. He has just returned from a visit to
Pakistan and indicated that he plans to touch base with various
intelligence agencies to get their views on the state of the
war. INR officials Dean Howells, George Harris, Ron Lorton, and
John Greenwald also attended.
2. Ambassador Abramowitz was primarily interested in how we
reach our analytical conclusions on the state of the war. He
asked specificall about so
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pointed out as an example the recent
reports on the Panjsher Valley which gave us an extremely
complete view of how the war is going there. Ambassador
Abramowitz said he also read these reports and a reed the we
very useful.
3. The Ambassador then quizzed me for over an hour on how
the war was going. He asked if there were significant
differences within the intelligence community on this topic; I
replied that there were differences over some issues, but on the
general trends--improving insurgent performance, increasing cost
to the Soviets and Pakistan staying power--my contacts led me to
the conclusion that there was little significant disagreement.
Ambassador Abramowitz asked about community production on
Afghanistan and hinted that he was thinking of asking for a SNIE
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4. Ambassador Abramowitz said he is an avid reader of CIA
production on Afghanistan. He said that he is a regular reader
of the Developments in Afghanistan which, "is a good piece; I
look forward to getting it."
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