DRAFT MEMORANDUM TO HOLDERS OF SNIE 11/50/37-82: USE OF TOXINS AND OTHER LETHAL CHEMICALS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND AFGHANISTAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87R00111R000200110019-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: February 17, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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SECRET
NIC 1297-83
17 February 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
VIA . Chairman, National Intelligence Council
FROM : Hans Heymann, Jr.
National Intelligence Officer at Large
SUBJECT . Draft Memorandum to Holders of SNIE 11/50/37-82:
"Use of Toxins and Other Lethal Chemicals in
Southeast Asia and Afghanistan"
1. The attached draft Memorandum to Holders is for your
approval. It updates the evidence on CW/Toxin use available to the
intelligence community through January 1983. An unclassified yPrcinn of
the findinac was releacad to tha ctata nanartmont lact /lrtnhorl
2. While the attached draft does not break any important new
ground, it goes considerably beyond the earlier estimate and the open
publications in providing, for the first time, comprehensive tabulations
of reported attacks in 1982 and of sample collection histories and
analytic results.
3. The draft is being sent concurrently to the SRP and the NFIB
Representatives for their review.
Attachment:
Draft MTH of SNIE 11/50-37-82
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SECRET
SUBJECT: Draft Memorandum to Holders of SNIE 11/50/37-82:
"Use of Toxins and Other Lethal Chemicals in Southeast
Asia and Afghanistan"
 Approved For Release 2008/06/10 : CIA-RDP87RO0111 R000200110019-4
SECRET
SUBJECT: Draft Memorandum to Holders of SNIE 11/50/37-82:
"Use of Toxins and Other Lethal Chemicals in
Southeast Asia and Afghanistan"
Distribution:
Original - Addressees
1 - DDCI (w/o att.)
1 - Executive Director (w/o att.)
1 - DCI/SA/IA (w/o att.)
1 - Executive Registry (w/o att.)
1 - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC (w/o att.)
1 - EO/NIC
1 - NIO/GPF
1 - OSWR att.)
1 - DDI R at
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2 - NIO/AL/HH Files (w/o att.)