GENERAL PEROOTS' PROPOSAL FOR AN NIE ON SOVIET ARMS CONTROL OBJECTIVES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90T00435R000100060026-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: June 2, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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Memo for NIOs/USSR, SP, GPF
Subject: General Peroots' Proposal for an NIE on Soviet Arms Control
Objectives
On 1 June I had a brief meeting with General Peroots (also Gordon Negus and
Barry Horton) on his proposal for an NIE on Soviet arms control objectives.
I believe we reached at least a tentative consensus on my recommendation
that detailed analysis of the kinds of programs and technologies the Soviets
might use arms control proposals to protect or block -- i.e., of the sort
directly supportive of DOD's "competitive strategies" work -- should be
generated through General Peroots' steering group for supporting that work
in DOD. I noted that the NIC would try to be helpful.
We further agreed that we would probably have to do a broadly scoped NIE on
Gorbachev's arms control strategy sometime during the next six months,
either to inform a final drive by this administration for a START agreement
or to support initial planning by its successor.. We shared the view that
this would be more than usually difficult to do effectively because of
intense feelings among policymakers and the politically charged season we
are entering. And we agreed that we ought to learn more about the
administration's post-summit objectives before we commit to timing of an NIE
on Soviet arms control strategy.
There are some action implications here which we can discuss after the next
NIC staff meeting.
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