DIA EFFORTS TO CURB THE FLOW OF TECHNOLOGY TO THE SOVIETS

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: October 16, 1981
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: DIA Efforts to Curb the Flow of Technology to the Soviets (U)
The attached paper describing DIA's efforts in technology transfer is
provided for your use.
Enclosure
DIA Efforts to Curb
the Flow of Technology
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DIA Efforts to Curb the Flow of Technology to the Soviets (U)
(U) DIA's efforts in technology transfer by and large are focused in its
Directorate for Scientific and Technical Intelligence and have been ongoing
for the past four years. A summary of its activities is given below:
1. (U) In support of the Strategic Trade Control Program, DIA provides
intelligence assessments to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering (USDRE) as requested, from an initial caseload numbering about
40 per year in 1979 to the current workload of 100-120 cases per month.
-_2. (U) In April 1980, USDRE requested DIA comment on known potential
military relationships of the end users of items being exported under Depart-
ment of Commerce license. The current caseload numbers 100-125 cases per
month.
3. (C) The Committee on Exchanges (COMEX) requires assessments on
selected Soviet, other Warsaw Pact and Chinese visitors. DIA has provided
comments on 300 requests per year.
4. (U) Through its intelligence production management responsibilities,
DIA required the Service S&T production agencies to include technology
transfer as part of their analysis. This tasking applies in over 200 tasks
dealing with threat weapon systems and associated technologies.
5. (U) A new area of responsibility is to review cases being looked at
by the National Disclosure Policy Committee (NDPC).
6. (U) Presentation of awareness briefings regarding the scope and
complexity of the technology transfer problem. These briefings have been
given over 180 times to audiences varying from the Congressional level to the
Military R&D Community.
7. (U) Contributed to the "Military Critical Technology List" (MCTL)
resulting from the 1979 Export Administration Act.
8. (U) USDRE has recently requested that DIA initiate follow-on foreign
availability studies against the entire MCTL. This will be accomplished using
both in house and contractual resources.
9. (U) Active participation on the various committees/working groups
concerning technology transfer.
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10. (U) Provides specific support in response to high level requests to
expose, identify and assess problems in technology transfer. Responses have
taken the form of briefings to Congress as well as initiatives to stem the
flow of technology that were prepared for and at the request of the Secretary
of Defense. DIA was also a major element in the debriefing that took place in
the attempt to determine the type and implications of the technology transfer
to the Soviets by the Swedish Firm DATA SAAB as a result of their sale of an
air traffic control system.
11. (C) DIA's Counterintelligence Division has had a significant
involvement in technology transfer issues through its publications that
were designed to warn and alert'key DoD policymakers to Soviet mechanisms
of technology transfer, provide an awareness of the hostile intelligence
threat in this area and furnish an assessment of the U.S. technological loss.
12. (U) DIA is currently reprograming personnel from in house resources
to meet the increased work loads due to technology transfer. Budget cycle
programing for FY 83 and 84 also reflect the increase in resources required.
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