REQUEST TO SPEAK AND PUBLISH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00423R000200180039-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 13, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
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13 June 1984
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Director of East Asian Analysis
Chief, OEA Administrative Staff
Chief, China Division, OEA
Chief, Domestic Policy Branch, OEA
SUBJECT: Request to Speak and Publish
1. I request approval to make an oral presentation based
upon the attached outline. This will eventually be published in
a volume.of conference presentations. Full approval for
publication will be requested when draft is completed. The
subject of my presentation will be Reform and the People's
Liberation Army.
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3. None of the material in my oral presentation or
subsequent paper will be drawn from classified materials.
4. II will be identified as an
Agency employee. To both my oral presentation and my paper, I
will append the standard disclaimer that the views expressed are
my own and not necessarily those of the Agency or the
US Government.
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Attachments:
Copy of proposed oral presentation outline
Outside Activity Form 879
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I have reviewed the attached text, to the best of my
knowledge have found it to be unclassified, and approve it for
presentation and publication.
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1984
Director of East Asian Analysis
Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
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REFORMING CHINESE ORGANIZATIONS: THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY
I. The PLA and China's Political Reform -- Is the Military in Opposition?
A. The PLA and post-Mao political events
1. Purge of the Left -- the Old Guard's triumphant return.
2. Restoration of Deng Xiaoping -- Army support.
3. Deng vs. Hua Guofeng -- the PLA's reluctant choice
4. The Democracy Movement - Reform's inauspicious beginning.
5. Literary reform -- the PLA as a target.
6. Economic reform -- a failure of communication.
B. Deng takes command of the Military Commission
1. Soothing troubled generals.
2. Addressing PLA concerns.
3. "Making up the missed lesson"
4. Changing the guard, retiring the commanders.
C. The mini-revolt of the Commissars
1. Dogmatists on the firing line.
2. Bai Hua, Zhao Yiya, and spiritual pollution -- case studies of withering
PLA influence.
a. Wei Guoqing and the General Political Department in retreat.
3. 12th Party Congress -- loyal, if grudging support.
D. Returning to
the
Barracks -- The PLA's retreat from politics.
1.
Traditions
and
bitter lessons.
2.
Playing by
the
rules and winning.
3.
The military modernization angle -- new toys for the army.
A. Deng's harsh assessment of 1975 -- "soft, lazy and loose."
1. Mao's army and its weaknesses.
B. Defense modernization and reform.
1. Vietnam exposes the problems.
2. The modernizers take charge.
3. Changing attitudes. Professionalization becomes a goal.
a. Peng Dehuai's rehabilitation
C. Reforming the "three PLAs"
1. Main forces: subordinating military regions to the General Staff,
combined force training, improving logistics, educating the officer
corps.
2. Technical Service Arms: Modernization of equipment, instilling pride,
promoting the experts, buying foreign arms.
3. Local forces: Reorganize, restructure, retire and retrain.
D. Performance, Problems and Prospects
1. Toward a younger officer corps
a. But the old guard hangs on at the top.
2. Education and promotion -- reopening the military academies.
a. But the peasants are grumbling.
3. Commanders vs. commissars -- settling old scores?
4. Loyalty to the party.
a. But what about after Deng?
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