MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001604250016-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2009
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: December 12, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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12 December 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
THROUGH: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
1. Your memorandum of 11 December nicely divides the subjects we
would want to cover in briefing, Hamilton and others. However, we need
more than that. We need to know the general scope and context of each
presentation to assure that in their totality they are comprehensive
and properly related to each other. Also, we need a Community briefing,
not merely a CIA briefing.
2. In this context there are two parallel efforts that cover
somewhat the same ground. The first is the second part of the Shultz
briefing, the first part of which was given during the summer. Bob Gates
was to do the second part as I remember.
3. The second part is the report on progress parallel to the one I
gave to the President last year. We should do this in a classified
form but having in mind the possibility of a somewhat broader distri-
bution than the last one which went only to the President. Then, as a
further step, we can consider whether the broad scope and thrust of
this report might be sanitized so that it could be used for more general
purposes. This last step is more difficult and we should not complicate
the early steps by worrying about that until the basic material has been
put together.
William J. Casey
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