LETTER TO THE HONORABLE BRENT SCOWCROFT FROM W. E. COLBY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 26, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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onorabl# grant Sc? wcroft
rant to the President for
National Security Affairs
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Clear grant;
2 6 NOV 1975
I as sending you the enclosed advance copy of our estimate
of developments in Soviet strategic pro ggrr c through the mid-
lgll0s in the hope that it will make a timely contribution to
your consideration of SALT and national defense issues.
This year's estimate continues the practice initiated
last year of combining Soviet offensive and defensive forces
into a single document. In our current estimate have been
more explicit than before about the basis for our judgments
and about our uncertainties. We have included alternative
forecasts of Soviet strategic forces both with and without
SALT TWO restrictions. We hav* also examined in some depth
the prospects for significant Soviet technological advances
in strategic weaponry. These changes have resulted in a
three-volume document somewhat longer than HIE 11-3/8-74v but
one which believe conveys our estimates more precisely.
The Key Judgments of the estimate contain our findings
in brief, ut for a more coelete explanation of our views
d your attention to the minder of Volume I and its
Sincerely.
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W. E. Colby
ropy No. 47
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Letter to Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs transmitting advance copy of NIE 11-3/8-75
p/D/DC1/ 1O:t erver/me:25Nov75
Retyped: QCI/ice/kgt/2 v75
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