SUPPORT TO SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89M00699R001701310008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 7, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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ER 3923-87
7 December 1987
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Intelligence Community Staff,
FROM: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Support to SAFE
1. I've reviewed the compromise proposal put forward by
the Intelligence Community Staff and would like for you to
prepare correspondence to the Director, DIA and the Executive
Director, CIA. I want the correspondence prepared as
reflecting a decision.
2. The only change in your 'compromise" proposal will be
in paragraph 4. I want the correspondence to show that CIA
will provide $7.1 million in FY-88 and $3.2 million in FY-89
toward completion of remaining SAFE deliveries -- 3.2 through
3.8, Delivery 4, Set 1 and MRP rewrite. I am not prepared to
contemplate any significant fund program slippages or software
changes that would drive costs of the program in FY-89 to a
shortfall that would require a commitment of resources above
the $3.2 million for CIA. TT is more than twice the
shortfall identified by CSPO.
3. Correspondence should be prepared directing CIA and DIA
to organize themselves in such a way to support CSPO to ensure
that shortfalls beyond this extent do not occur. To the degree
shortfalls are anticipated, measures should be taken to keep
the program within the bounds identified. I want the
correspondence to reflect that this financial sinkhole must be
closed as we move into an extremely constrained budgetary
environment. Neither agency will be in a position to
contribute the kind of money identified as a maximum shortfall
by the Intelligence Community Staff. It is also imperative to
put a freeze on software developments to the degree necessary
to prevent expenditures from increasing beyond program levels.
It will be the responsibility of CIA, DIA and CSPO working
together to ensure that the prrcram s closed out at the
budgetary levels identified.
Robert:M. Gates
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