NIC ACTIVITY REPORT, 14-18 JANUARY 1985
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
NIC# 00318-85
National Intelligence Council 18 January 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Herbert E. Meyer
Vice Chairman, National Intelligence Council
SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 14-18 January 1985
I. DCI/DDCI-Assigned Tasks
NIO/Africa (Frederick Wettering) briefed the DCI on developments in
Sudan.
NIO at Large (Hal Ford), with the assistance of the NIOs, prepared a
draft DCI Worldwide Briefing for congressional committees, and met with
the DCI to discuss the Briefing.
Assistant NIO/Economics) (prepared background material
for the DCI on the visit of Undersecretary of Commerce Lionel Olmer to
Moscow for a meeting of the US/USSR Working Group on Trade.
NIO/Europe (Col. George Kolt) prepared talking points on US/Spanish
relations for the DCI's use at a meeting with Secretary Weinberger.
Assistant NIO/Latin America) (prepared a Central
American update for the DCI's use at meetings with Mr. McFarlane and
Secretary Weinberger.
NIO/Narcotics (Charles Allen) and A/NIO/Narcotics
with officers of the DDO and DDI, met with the DOCI to discuss narcotics
intelligence concerns of Dr. Carlton Turner, Director of the White House
Office of Drug Abuse Policy.
NIO/USSR (Fritz Ermarth) prepared talking points for the DCI on the
cancellation of the Warsaw Pact Summit and Soviet leadership developments.
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III. Of Interest This Week
Assistant NIO/AFI separately attended an IG on the
NSDD: Food for Progress; a meeting at the State Department on upcoming
US/Kenyan economic bilaterals; and a USAD/NOAA-chaired discussion on crop
outlooks for Africa.
NIO/Counterterrorism (David Whipple) organized Agency and Community
briefings to introduce NIO/CT-designate Charles Allen. Mr. Whipple and
Mr. Allen also attended a White House Operations Group Meeting with
Mr. McFarlane, Ambassador Oakley, and senior officers of the State
Department, NSA, DIA, Treasury, Justice, FBI, INS, and the Secret Service.
Assistant NIO/East Asial (participated in a three-
day political-military simulation) for officers of CIA,
the State Department, ACDA, ISA, CINCPAC, and the military services.
Acting NIO/Economics met with Douglas Mulholland, Special 25X1
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coordination of activities relating to economic issues; met with
arations for discussion of space issues at the May Economic Summit;
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chaired a meeting of NIC, DDI, and DDO officers to discuss the Community
contributions to NSSD 2-85: "Economic Development of Central America," and
discussed the same topic with Special Assistant to the President William
Martin who will chair the Study Group.
Assistant NIO/Economics met with Roger Robinson, the
Senior NSC Director for International Economic Affairs, to discuss future
topics for consideration by the SIG-IEP.
NIO/Europe (Col. George Kolt) met with John Hawes, Deputy Director of
the State Department Politico-Military Affairs Bureau; Richard Haas,
Deputy Director of European Bureau Policy Planning; and Richard Combs,
Director of the State Department East European office to discuss the
estimates program and current European issues. Col. Kolt and NIO/USSR
(Fritz Ermarth) also participated in a CSIS and ATLANTIK-BRUECKE co-
sponsored conference on US and West German policies toward the USSR.
Acting NIO/GPF, land NIO/Europe (Col. George
Kolt) attended an IG on Military Access Review for discussions on
agreements to be reviewed this year. The Director of the State Department
Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Lt. Gen. Chain, will formally request
intelligence support for negotiations with
NI0/Latin America (Robert Vickers) met with NSC Staff member
Constantine Menges to discuss recent developments in Latin America; met
with D/OALA to discuss current requirements; and discussed NSSD 2-85:
"Economic Development for Central America" with Acting NIO/Economics
(David Low), A/NIO/LA and officers of the DDI.
Assistant NIO/LA met with officers of OALA to
discuss the Pope's scheduled visit to South America.
NIO/NESA (Graham Fuller) met with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for South Asia to discuss US policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan;
attended a round-table discussion on the Afghan resistance with government
officials and academics; discussed Soviet activities in the Middle East
with an official of the State Department Policy Planning Office; and
discussed the Middle East with a Brookings Institute specialist.
Assistant NIO/NESA with representatives of DDI/NESA, met
with an officer of DoD/ISA/NESA who recently visited Ira , the warfront,
and
attended an interagency meeting convened by the Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Policy Analysis to review US programs in meeting the goals
of NSSD-99: "US Strategy for the Near East and South Asia.
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NIO/SP (Lawrence Gershwin), with D/OSWR, met with officers of the DOD
Strategic Defense Initiative office to discuss intelligence support
requirements.
Assistant NIU/SP forwarded coordinated NIC and
DDI comments on the 1985 draft of Soviet Military Power to the DoD.
Assistant NI0/SP attended an off-site conference on
dollar costing of Soviet defense efforts.
NI0/S&T (Julian Nall) attended technical meetings at TRADOC, Ft.
Monroe.
NI0/USSR (Fritz Ermarth) discussed developments in arms control with
Ambassadors Nitze and Matlock; with A/NI0/USSR was
briefed on Soviet operations in Afghanistan by the ACSI/US Army; and
attended a Face-to-Face Seminar led by Zbigniew Brzezinski on "A New Phase
in East-West Relations."
Assistant NI0/USSR viewed two cultural films on the
Soviet Union and discussed
US/Soviet relations with Phil Kaplan, Staff Director of the State
Department Policy Planning Council.
NI0/Warning (John Bird) met with General P. X. Kelly and BGen. Smith,
Director of Intelligence for the USMC, to discuss warning objectives and
issues; with A/NI0/W visited OIA to discuss the
warning potential of Soviet nuclear weapons attended a
briefing on Afghanistan by th ACSI/US Army; and attended an OGI seminar on
Authoritrian Leadership conducted by the Brookings Institution.
A/NI0/Warning
Air Attache to Nicaragua.
attended a debriefing of the US
IV. Future Activities
NI0/CT (Charles Allen) will attend a 24 January meeting of the
Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism (IICT) with David Whipple
for discussions on implementing a new terrorism alert warning system
within the Community.
A/NI0/CT will address the National Military Intelligence
Association on 24 anuary.
Herbert E. Meyer
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Distribution:
1 - DCI
1 - DDCI
1 - SA/IA
1 - ER
1 - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC
1 - Each NIO
1 - NIC/AG
1 - EO/NIC
1 - PO/NIC
1 - SRP
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