BREAKFAST MEETING WITH SECRETARY WEINBERGER AND DEPUTY SECRETARY TAFT (25 JULY 1986)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88G01117R000200530001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 25, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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25 July 1986
SUBJECT: Breakfast Meeting with Secretary Weinberger and
Deputy Secretary Taft (25 July 1986)
The following subjects were discussed at the breakfast:
1. The DCI advised Secretary Weinberger that Evan Hineman would be
the Intelligence Community point of contact on the relocatable targets
issue.
2. Taft indicated that they have identified the money we sought and
are prepared to fill the request
the Soviet Union.
4. There was also a brief discussion of the Philippines.
5. The DCI complained about the misleading stories on the Stingers
for Afghanistan and updated the Secretary.
6. I advised the Secretary about South African nuclear developments.
7. The DCI again raised the
8. The Secretary of Defense complained about Paul Nitze's
presentation in Bonn to the effect that it had not been an accurate
representation of the Administration's position, thus Genscher had gone
to the Soviet Union with a misleading inteetati~n of what the
President's letter to Gorbachev will say. ~nr_
9. The Secretary reported on a luncheon meeting earlier in the week
with Senators Quayle, Wallop, Pete Wilson, and several others, urging
some sort of immediate deployment of an SDI-related point defense in
order to build momentum for continued funding.
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10. The Secretary asked for our analysis of the Soviet
acknowledgment that there could be victory in nuclear war. I described
differences of view in the Agency, including the fact that there were
those who believed Soviet statements since 1977 had been disinformation
about their real intentions based on their view of what would sell in the
West, but that their actions suggested that they were planning their
forces and defenses with a view that if there were a nuclear war, their
intention was in fact to be victorious (or to prevail). He asked for our
analysis of this. (DDI action with NIO/USSR)
obe/rt Gates
Deputy Director of C tral Intelligence
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
(MEETIN -'(BREAKFAST) With Secretary Weinberger and Deputy Secretary
on Taft 25 July 1986)
DISSEMINATION:
1 - Complete to each: Dir, Exec Staff (W/ Distribution Sheet)
DCI
DDCI (W/Distribution Sheet)
EXDIR (EYES ONLY)
DDI (EYES ONLY)
DDO (EYES ONLY)
ES (With Distribution sheet)
Additional Dissem and Paragraph classification:
PARA CLASSIFICATION
ADDITIONAL DISSEM
COMPT
NIO USSR
C/NE
7 C/UDAC
OVERALL CLASSIFICATION:
C/ACIS
D/SOVA, NIO/USSR
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