LETTER TO ROBERT M. GATES FROM DAVE DURENBERGER

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• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
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• Publication Date: February 24, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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IN RESPONSE, PLEASE
REFER TO #~86- G96
February 24, 1986
Mr . Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
On behalf of the Select Committee on Intelligence,
we wish to invite you to appear before a hearing the
Committee wil'1 hold on March 13th at 4:00 P.M. The purpose
of this hearing is to address issues relating to bong-range
planning of intelligence on political, economic, and military
trends in the Soviet Union. This hearing is being held as
part of the Select Committee's review of the Fiscal Year
1987 National Intelligence Strategy and the Committee's
consideration of guidelines for the FY 1988 National Intelli-
gence Strategy.
The hearing will be held before the full Committee and,
of course, will be closed . Security considerations require
you to furnish a list of all witnesses and staff who will
accompany you to the Committee Clerk..at least 24 hours in
advance of the hear ing . We "ask that your presentation be
as informal as possible and tha-t any prepared statements be
submitted for the record. Your presentation should not
exceed 10-15 minutes so as to allow ample time for questions
by the Committee Members.
In our hearings, we are examining the entire? intelligence
process; the levying of requirements; the collection,
analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information; and
the use of this information by the intelligence consumer.
As a key producer of intelligence on the Soviet Union, the
Committee would like you briefly, to outline your long-range
priorities for intelligence analysis on Soviet military,
political, and economic developments.
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Mr. Rober[ M. Gates
February 24, 1986
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In addition to your. self , we have also invited to
attend our yarch 13th hearing Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger and Ambassador Rozanne L. Ridgway, Assistant
Secretary for Soviet and East European Affairs, in order
to provide the Committee an intelligence consumer's
perspective. For the views of other in telli~ence producers,
we have invited Ambassador 'Nor ton Abramowitz, Director ,
Bureau for Intelligence and Research, Department of State
and LTG Leonard Perroots , Director , Defense Intel 1 igenc e
Agency .
To give our staff ample time to prepare briefing materials
for this hearing, please arrange Eor your representatives
who will be involved in the preparation for the session to
meet with our staff at least ten days before your scheduled
appearance. This will ensure that the Committee will be able
to cover all relevant issues.
If your staff has any questions concerning this hearing,
please have them contact John Despres or Bruce Berkowitz, our
staff_:nembers who are handl' the arrangements for this
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Chairman
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Patrick J~'Leahv
Vice Chairman
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