WEEKLY NSC INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001003870016-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2007
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 28, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Honorable Richard Allen
Assistant-to-the-President
for National-Security Affairs
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28 April 1981
MEMORANDUM FOR: National Security Council
SUBJECT: Weekly NSC Intelligence Checklist
-- New Soviet airfield identified in Libya. (S)
-- Cuba, Nicaragua, and Libya (one shipload) appear to have cached arms
in Honduras and are increasing flow of arms and propaganda to Guatemala and
Honduras as well as El Salvador. (S)
Castro said to have admitted to German SPD peacemaker that U.S. white
paper on arms supply is accurate and confirmed existence of paper from
El Salvador leftists that they want negotiation to buy time for military
buildup., (S)._ -
--.Del.ivery of Soviet heavy weapons to Botswana will disturb the political
balance both inside-the country and in southern Africa, and will provoke
reaction from South Africa. -Additional Soviet advisors probably will arrive
in Zambia to conduct. training-An the use of newly acquired aircraft, ground
equipment and air-defense-weapons. (S)
Morocco-plans Polisario peace initiative at OAU meeting in June. (S)
--- Iraqis seem=reluctant to launch a major attack in Khuzestan this
spring. -CS) Libyans continue-tO react to all reconnaissance missions flown by US
aircraft-over the-Mediterranean near Libya. Saturday they used communications
deception to simulate Libyan pilots ordered to shoot down US fighter escorts.
Earlier in the same-mis.sion, Libyan fighters had tried to get close to the
reconnaissance aircraft but were kept away by the US escort fighters. (S)
-- Soviet Marshal Ogarkov's current visit to India could be a prelude to
another large arms deal. (S)
-- The forcible- return over the weekend of a small number of Cuban refugees to
the US does not signal a massive new sealift, but thousands are using third-
country routes to enter the US. (S)
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-- Press reports of Soviet reinforcements in Afghanistan probably stem
from the regular spring troop rotation. Pakistan could face increased Soviet
border violations and flow of refugees poses serious political problems for
Pakistan. Zia's opposition is fragmented following the airliner hijacking. (S)
-- The Nonaligned states continue to push for a showdown on Namibia at
the UN. Nonaligned militants have drafted a series of resolutions calling
for sanctions against South Africa and will probably call for a Security
Council vote this week. A Western veto is anticipated, but African governments,
many of which would be hurt by the side effects of sanctions, have had second
thoughts about convening an emergency session of the General Assembly to call
for voluntary sanctions. Without a peaceful settlement, the odds of a significant
expansion of the Communist- and Angolan-backed insurgency will increase. (S)