NUCLEAR TERRORISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87R00029R000200310001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 31, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2008/06/17: CIA-RDP87R00029R000200310001-3
SECRET
The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C. 20505
31 July 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Foreign Intelligence Board Principals
FROM: Henry S. Rowen
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT: Request for Estimate
210
1. The Acting Director of Intelligence and Research, Department
of State, has requested an update and broadening of SNIE 6-78, dated
12 December 1978, Likelihood of Attempted Acquisition of Military
Weapons or Materials by Foreign Terrorist Groups for Use Against the
United States (see attached). Under NFIB's new procedures for estimate
production, this paper would appear as a Category I NIE.
2. In accordance with the new procedures, unless an NFIB
Principal registers an objection with this office by Monday,10 August,
the National Intelligence Council plans to proceed with this NIE.
Special Assistant/Nuclear Proliferation Intelligence,
Henry S. Rowen
Attachment:
Memo from Dept of State
to C/NIC, dated 20 July 1981
State Dept. review completed.
SECRET)
Approved For Release 2008/06/17: CIA-RDP87R00029R000200310001-3
 Approved For Release 2008/06/17: CIA-RDP87R00029R000200310001-3 %5~;`rg/
0 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
July 20, 1981
SECRET/NOFORN
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Henry Rowen
Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Central Intelligence Agency
INR believes it would be useful for the Intelligence
Community to prepare an update of the December 1978 SNIE
on the "Likelihood of Attempted Acquisition of Nuclear
Weapons or Materials by Terrorist Groups for Use Against
the United States" (SNIE 6-78, December 12, 1978).
The SNIE's judgments covered only two to three years
-(1978 to about 1981). Given the increasing concern about
terrorism in general and nuclear terrorism in particular,
mid-1981 seems an appropriate time for a review of the
SNIE's key judgments and a new examination of the problem.
An updated SNIE might be broadened to cover the issue of
terrorist acquisition of nuclear weapons or material for
use against any nation not only against the United States.
We have prepared suggested terms of reference (attached)
for your use should you decide to initiate a review and
update of the 1978 SNIE.
Herman J. Cohen, Acting
SECRET/NOFORN
Approved For Release 2008/06/17: CIA-RDP87R00029R000200310001-3
 Approved For Release 2008/06/17: CIA-RDP87R00029R000200310001-3
Iq
Next 2 Page(s) In Document Denied
Approved For Release 2008/06/17: CIA-RDP87R00029R000200310001-3