DDI ACTIVITY REPORT 10-14 MARCH 1986

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G01359R000200090007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 14, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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DDI 01357 -86
1~4 March 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: DDI Activity Report 10-14 March 1986
DCI/DDCI Assigned Tasks
SOYA and EURA prepared talking points and graphics for the
ALA prepared talking points on Angola for the DDCI's HPSCI
briefing.
Policy Support
ALA completed an unclassified blind memorandum on
"Nicara ua: M the and Realities," for release by the White
In addition, OCR prepared summaries for the
Vice President of significant statements by the Ortega brothers.
OSWR briefed Dr. John McTague, the Acting President's
Science Advisor and Director, White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy, on Soviet ASAT issues. They also briefed
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Robert Barker, desiQnate~ Assistant to the Sec retarv of Defense
for Atomic Energy,
ALA and OEA briefed Commerce Department and EXIM Bank
officials on economic and political developments in Chile,
Argentina, and the Philippines.
EURA prepared talking points for the US Representative at
the North Atlantic Council meeting on the current financial
outlook for the Eastern Bloe.
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EURA also prepared a paper for Secretary Shultz for his trip
to France, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, 25X1
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EURA drafted a typescript for State and the NSC on the role
_ and impact of the media in French politics and also prepared for
the NSC a typescript on Yugoslavia's plans for organizational
change within its Communist Party. At the request of Peter
Sommer, NSC Staff, EURA and OSWR prepared a point paper on the
role of West German firms in Iran's CW program.
EURA sent Ambassador Oakley the first of a series of monthly
updates on Libyan sanctions. EURA also met with Stephen
Danzansky of the NSC to discuss the latest Sherpa meeting for the
Tokyo Summit in May.
A NE SA manager attended a planning meeting at EOB for Vice
President Bush's trip to the Persian Gulf area in April.
A NE SA analyst briefed three special assistants to .Attorney
General Meese on Indian and Pakistani narcotics, terrorism, and
general foreign policy matters.
NESA analysts prepared a typescript on "Sri Lanka: Arming
and Training the Insurgency" for State's Bureau of Near Eastern 25X1
and South Asian Affairs.
OGI briefed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Marion
Creekmore on the oil market outlook, and Senior Staff Economists
Lincoln Anderson and Robert Chambers at the Council of Economic
Advisors on commodity issues.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics
Matters, Mark Dion, was briefed by OGI on the planning for an
extended marihuana survey in Columbia in April and July.
OGI briefed DoD DAS fo.r Intelligence Hawkins on the arms
transfer research program and gray arms market.
OGI has, so far, distributed nearly 2,400 copies of the
Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency.
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SOVA met with Jim Giffen, Chairman, US-USSR Trade and
Economic Council , to discuss issues likely to arise in his
meetings with Soviet officials.
SOVA briefed LAMM developments to the WSSIC Conference at
the US Army Foreign Service and Technology Center (USAFSTC) in
Charlottesville, Viriginia.
An OGI analyst returned from a seven week TDY in Pakistan
where he helped the Pakistanis design an opium survey and
_ provided instructions on reading out the film obtained during the
survey. He assisted the Pakistanis at the request of the Bureau
of International Narcotics Matters. Another OGI analyst returned
from Mexico where she worked with the Mexican government, the
State Department Narcotics Assistance on a survey that had been
agreed to several months ago during a meeting between Attorney
General Meese and the Mexican Attorney General, Garcia Ramirez.
Briefings on the Hill
There we re 17 briefings on the Hill this past week.
C/ACIS and Clay Hamilton briefed the SS CI Staff on
compliance issues .
OSWR and the NIO/S&T met with Congressman Kenneth MacKay to
discuss science policy issues. OSWR also briefed Dwayne Andrews
of the HPSCI Staff on the DI Scientific Computing Initiative for
FY87.
ALA briefed Congressman Burton and staffers on Mozambique,
and Congressmen Daniel and Gunderson on the impact on Mexico of
Sandinista consolidation and Nicaraguan subversion of its
neighbors.
NESA and OGI briefed the Senate Energy Committee on the
Iran-Iraq War and impact on Gulf.
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