LETTER TO ROBERT M. GATES FROM ALBERT GORE, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G00152R000400530011-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 22, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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Mr. Robert M. Gates
Acting Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
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Dear Mr. Gates:
On February 26, 19$7, members of the intelligence community
briefed members of the Senate Armed Services Committee in a closed
session on issues pertaining to the monitoring and verification of the
Threshold Test Ban Treaty. In the course of that briefing, a number
of proposals for augmenting national technical means were identified.
I asked -and his colleagues to provide on an ad hoc
basis their idea of how one would rank wereeablestoedo so,rthough I
importance. After some huddling, they
fully understfodmalastatementeofointersagencyhviewsivalent of a
coordinated,
This is precisely the reason that I am writing to you now: to
request a formal statement which not only outlines cooperative
measures ir. aid of TTBT verification, but Pltswouldtalsoibeoimportant
relative importance to U.S. intelligence.
to include estimates of ds?werenmade avaiaableetosdoosomp andent ofy of
these measures once fun would be needed.
course -- an estimate of how much money
Thank you in advance for your assistar_ce.
Albert Gore Jr.
United States Senator
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