NIC ACTIVITY REPORT, 12 - 18 APRIL 1985

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2010
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• Publication Date: April 19, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D.C. 20505
NIC #02042-85
National Intelligence Council 19 April 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, 12 - 18 April 1985
I. DCI/DDCI-Assigned Tasks
NI0/Africa (Fred Wettering) prepared comments on a draft of
Secretary Shultz' Southern Africa speech for the DCI.
NIO at Large (Hal Ford), with the assistance of DDI and 000
officers, prepared material on Radio Marti for review by the DDCI,
before releasing these responses to HPSCI questions.
NIO/Counterterrorism/Narcotics (Charles Allen) accompanied the DCI
and other senior intelligence and military officials to Fort Bragg to
observe a Joint Special Operations Command exercise.
is (Carl Ford) met with the DCI to discuss
NIO/FDIA (Fred Hutchinson) provided a paper on CIA organization for
technical security and countermeasures to the DCCI and DDI.
NIO/Latin America (Robert Vickers) accompanied the DCI to brief the
SSCI on Nicaragua.
NIO/SP (Larry Gershwin) prepared a memorandum for the DCI on the
significance of a Soviet announcement at the SCC on the SS-X-25 ICBM.
NIO/USSR (Fritz Ermarth) prepared talking points for the DCI on
current Soviet issues.
Assistant NIO/USSR( (prepared talking points for the
DCI on Soviet internal developments and a memorandum on Embassy/Moscow
concerns
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W. Of Interest This Week
NIO/Africa (Fred Wettering)
met with outgoing Defense
Attaches to South Africa; chaired a debriefing of the US Ambassador to
the Congo; chaired a meeting on HUMINT collection
and with A/NIO/AF met with senior DIA/Africa officials
and analysts to discuss an IIM on the effectiveness of military hardware
for African needs and future DIA participation in Community
production. also attended an interagency meeting to discuss
refugee problems in Sudan and Ethiopia.
NIO at Large (Hal Ford) discussed research contract interests with
William Bader. Vice President of SRI International; and with A/NIO/LA
discussed Central American questions with Mike Epstein, a
Staff Assistant to Senator Byrd.
A/NIO/A and INR representatives met to discuss
the Pakistani nuclear program and with Acting NIO/AL met
with DDI officers to discuss DDI plans for FY 1986 pro uc ion on nuclear
proliferation.
NIO/CT (Charles Allen) met with Al Bonner, Director of Intelligence
for the Customs Service, to discuss Community intelligence support and
to provide background information on Cuban and Nicaraguan involvement
with drug traffickers for Commissioner of Customs vonRaab; with DDO
officers. held discussions on the West European terrorist threat F_
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A/NIO/CT met with of the University of
Chicago to discuss Iran's use of terrorism and violence and Khomeini's
interpretation of Shiism; addressed the National War College on
Community capabilities to combat terrorism and participated in a panel
discussion with Oliver North of the NSC and Major General Dudley Rice,
Joint Special Operations Agency, JCS; attended a meeting of the White
House Operations Planning Group chaired by Edward Hickey to discuss the
potential terrorist threat as it relates to the President's forthcoming
visit to Western Europe; met with Commander James Stark of the NSC Staff
to discuss Iranian Revolutionary Guard terrorist training facilities;
and with A/NIO/Narcotics attended a State Department
narcotics intelligence coordination meeting, chaired by the Deputy
Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters.
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Assistant NIC,!Narcotics briefed mid-level DEA
managers of heroin and Southeast Asia intelligence programs on NIC
efforts to address the drug problem.
NIO/East Asia (Carl Ford) discussed recent developments in East Asia
with Jay Taylor, D/INR/REA;
participated
meeting at the State
of the Northrop Corporation to discuss the latter's view of developments
attended a meeting at SAIS/Johns Hopkins University with the
President of China's Nanying Universit ; chaired the first meeting of a
Analytic Group;
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NI0/Economics (David Low) attended SIG-IEP meeting chaired by
Secretary Baker to discuss a World Bank proposal for a Multilateral
Investment Guarantee Agency which would provide political risk insurance
for foreign direct investment in developing countries, and also mixed
credits; met with VC/NIC (Herbert Meyer), NI0/ST (Julian Nall), and
others to discuss the implications of the Japanese semiconductor
industry; and was briefed by an OGI energy analyst on the International
Energy Agency and the European gas market in anticipation of forthcoming
visit to the IEA.
Assistant NI0/Economics attended International
Energy Security Group meeting chaired by Under Secretary of State Wallis
on strategy for US crude oil exports and energy negotiations with Japan;
and met with Chief of SOVA's National Issues Group to
discuss Soviet researc on the Soviet economy.
NIO/Europe (Col. George Kolt) attended a NATO symposium at the
National Defense University; participated in an IG on "Next Steps in the
MLM Shooting Incident"; and with NIO/USSR (Fritz Ermarth), met with the
US Ambassadors to Moscow and the MBFR negotiations.
NIO/FDIA (Fred Hutchinson) held meetings with the Support Staff of
the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense/Policy, NSC staff member Ken
deGraffenreid, D/DS&T, AD/DS&T, and C/CI Staff to discuss expanded
responsibilities of NIO/FDIA and the establishment of a new FDIA staff;
and visited special facilities in Texas for discussions with
USAF personnel.
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A/NIO/FDIAI (chaired the monthly meeting of the
Foreign Denial and Deception Analysis Committee, for a review of
activities over the last eleven months in anticipation of an early
promulgation of its DCID; and met with D/OSWR to discuss a new DDAC data
base on interference with US NTM.
NIO/GPF (MG Stephen Nichols) attended the National Defense
University two-oay NATO symposium.
NIO/Latin America (Robert Vickers) separately briefed the following
Congressional Committees on the situation in Nicaragua: Staff Directors
of the Senate Appropriations Committee, with D/OALA; the Senate
Appropriations Committee, with Deputy Secretary of State Motley; the
House Appropriations Committee; and several new members of Congress,
with the AD/DI and D/OALA. Mr. Vickers also prepared a second bi-weekly
update on Nicaragua for the NSC.
NIO/NESA (Graham Fuller) discussed Shiism and developments in the
Gulf with a University of Chicago scholar; met with the Editor of the
Middle East Journal regarding developments in North Africa; discussed
the Middle East with FBIS analysts;
NIO/ST (Julian Nall) attended a banquet honoring Song Jian, Minister
in charge of the State Science and Technology Commission, People's
Republic of China, cohosted by Dr. G. A. Keyworth, the President's
Science Advisor, and Robert Adams, Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution; and attended an adaress given by Song Jian, sponsored by
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
NIO/USSR (Fritz Ermarth) hosted an analysts meeting with Ambassador
Hartman; discussed Soviet Assessments with officers of OSD/Net
Assessments; and attended a luncheon for the West German Minister for
S&T and West German Embassy.
Assistant NIO/USSR
achaired and ire a meeting of analysts wi Ambassador
NIO/Warning (John Bird) opened the third session of the six-day
National Warning Training Course taught jointly by CIA/OT&E and the
National Warning Staff (NWS); met with the Special Assistant to the
President for Crisis Management and with the CNO's Executive Panel in
the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA); and with A/NIOs/W
met with members of the COMIREX staff
to discuss warning strategy
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Assistant NIO/WI I briefed a Defense Intelligence
College Seminar on warning issues, and with A/NI0/W
visited the FEMA National Emergency Trainin Center to coor ina e
support for a 6-10 May Early Warning Conference.
IV. Future Activities
NI0/ST (Julian Nall) and A-NIO/STI tare scheduled to
meet with Ambassador Abramowitz, INR on 23 April; they will meet with
Dr. Keyworth on Wednesday, 24 April.
The NIC annual retreat will be held on 13 - 14 May.
Herbert E. Meyer
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SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 12 - 18 April 1985
VC/NIC:HM:ba (19 Apr 85)
Distribution:
1 - DC I
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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