NIC ACTIVITY REPORT, 29 NOVEMBER - 5 DECEMBER 1985

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• Publication Date: December 6, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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The Director of Central Intelligence
W,shiogton. D.C. 20505
National Intelligence Council
MEMORANDUM FOR.. Director Director tof1Central Intelligencentelligence
Deputy
NIC #05991-85
6 December 1985
FROM: Herbert E. Meyerational Intelligence Council
Vice Ch ai rnlan,
SUBJECT: NIC Activity Report, 29 November - 5 December 1985
OCI/DDCI-Ass ned Tasks
with the assistance of the NIOs, prepared a
NIO at Large (Hal Ford),
draft NIC Outlook for C/NIC and DCI review. material for the DCI on
SA/NIO/CT prepared background
_ __. _.C lent forces.
, with N/ nevi ~......_.
pActr to an NSC meeting
NIO/Economics
l for and briefed t
Acting he tro
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prepared
on Senate Bill 812: The Financial Export
an SSCI hearing on
NIO/FDIA (H. F. Hutchinson, Jr.) attended technical issues of CI and security with the DDCI and others. IA Staff
tant NIO/FDIA participated areas in, D/and IC/Staff, and
ss s attended a meet ng of the DDCI , A/ DDI,
Committee c airmen to discuss problem and committee
DCI
interactions.
America (Robert Vickers) prepared an update on Central
NIO/Latin
America for the DCI.
S&T (Julian Nall) met with the DC ace and Dr. Thomas Paine,
NIO/
Chairman of the National Commission on p
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111. Of Interest This Week
NI0/Africa (Fred Wettering) briefed Mark Edelman, Assistant AID
Administrator/Africa, prior the meeetingiontthe HUMINT;Collection
and chaired an interagency
Plan at the request of the HUMINT Committee.
Acting Assistant NI0/Africa
AID desk officers.
discussed Ethiopia with
NIO at Large (Hal Ford) prepared a draft memorandum for VC/NIC on
improvements registered in National Estimates since 1981.
NIO at Large (MGen David Einsel) thee StateeDetartmentn DO9PandsOSWR
nuclear i sues-, met with officers iossues?
re ardin
Assistant CBW attended a special interagency
meeting on theNIO/ c emica warfare program; participated in a State
Department meeting on guidance to the Brussels Suppliers Group on export
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controls of CW precursor rinar i
systemsfor treaty
conceptual
sponsored a Community on
monitoring.
(Charles Allen)
Combatting Terrorism Robert
Earl of the Vice Presidents Task Force
h
discuss a sensitive issue related esmma unity
US Navy cont actoritto
Dr. Ervin Kapos of Kapos and Associat
discuss the terrorist threat in Europe, ble Navy
counterterrorism exercise; briefed Senator Nancy anticnathe in
terrorist threat in Central America, with C/DO/CATF; p
panel discussions on future Dscussedefenthesterrorie
threat in Intelligence College C/DO/EUR, discussed
scussed member Oliver
t
emergency support teams at a meeting chaired by NSC st
4-A hv NSC member James Stark to
ff
h
North; attended a meeting C
nat opal securitasects of international
discuss a draft NSDD on the
drug trafficking;
spoke on Community
ism
Assistant NIO/Counterterror counterterrorist organization at a Late/ /CTP-spotiored Antiiterrorism
Cooperation Program for states of the
attended
with OGC officer
SA/ NIO/CT legi on;
[~r7~r s ~tl e 9 ~is 1
an IG/T meeting on the coordinaiciPateduinea panel on intelligence
with CS/NIO/CT P
collection managemen orthisereport onttha e0intelligenceligence
College seminar; and presented
contribution to certain maritimeecuurity Security. at a meeting of an
Interagency Working Group on Maritime
NIO/East Asia (Carl Ford) met with NSC staff member Gaston Sigur to
Dick Latham, the
discuss China; discussed the same subject with It. Col.
Bill Belk of
ACSI/USAF/Regional Estimates Division, and with Lt.
k for a brief in on J an b
Y
or
d to New
USAF/INERT and travele
met with Assistant
Assistant NIO/East Asia
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
and engineering plans for US/Japan
NIO/Europe (Col. George Kolt) discussed the estimates pro ram with
(F with
BGen Norm an Wood, Soviet/policyiwi hetheiUS Ambassador to Norway;
discussed
R (Fritz Ermarth), attended at thenWilsonaCenter,nfeaturingst
Relations. After the Two
Pierre Hassner, Director of Research at the Fondation Nationale des
Sciences Politiques; and Professor of Strategy at the University of
Paris; with NIO/CT (Charles Allen), discussed Yugoslavia and
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ith LTGen Weinstein, ACSI/US
NIO/FDIA (H. F. Hutchinson, Jr.) met w
Army, to discuss the FDIA Staff; chaired Wo rkingoGioupameeting with
C/FDIA Staff fo p ions on ive
measures; an w attended a meeting of the CI Working
Group to approve the strategy for the 1987 CIA program.
Assistant NIO/FDIA prepared talking points for the art DDI's meeting with Senatorpa prelimmet s aryhdraftsdeception study
ODAC member and others to review
prepared for the DDI.
NIO/Latin America (Robert Vickers) discussed evidence
DO;o Soviettar s
deliveries to Nicaragua with officers of NPIC, DI, and
house Foreign Affairs Committee on tNicaraguan on arar e Nicaragua stance with /ALA
and C/DO/CATF; provided a monthly update to NSC raffded
member Oliver North; ista connections to the ColombiandM-19,for
information on Sandin
Secretary Shultz' use in America to NSC staff memberaRaysBurghardt.
Chinese policy toward l
NIO/NESA (Graham Fuller) attended at mwith ega b evening seminar on
Third World hostility toward the US;
with energy issues in the Middle East; lunched with Senator Hart's
foreign policy staff officer; A~airsthana d8attended anBrookings seminar
specialist on Middle Eastern
__,: _erab perceptions of each other.
and C/ACIS,
NIO/SP (Lawrence Gershwin), with A/NIO/SP Ivan in
prepared responses to HPSCI questions related o es monY 9
September 1985.
discussed the
NIO/S&T (Julian Nall), with A-NIO/S&T
Science Counselor program with Robert Morris, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State/ST, and Ambassador John NConr erpcenfor discussions ontopenhsource
Merrifield of the Department artm technology data bases; and atteineSDi symposium at the byesenior
Energy on areas of controversy
scientists of the three DOE weapans labs.
NIO/USSR (Fritz Ennarth) met staff member Steve Ockender
to discuss the Soviet view
Assistant NIO/USSR attended an interagency meeting
on US/Soviet bilateral re brSovietefed US.
Advisory Board and Agency
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Acting NIO/Warning addressed a group of Community
operations center officers during a tour sponsored b the Washington
Area Operations Center Chiefs; and with NWS officer
attended a UTA briefing for D/NSA on Korean warning initiatives.
IV. Future Activities
NIO/Counterterrorism/Narcoticsy(Charles Allen) will attend a
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chair an IITC meeting on 12 December.
Herbert E. Meyer
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VC/NIC:I1I:ba (6 Dec 85)
1 - DCI
1 -DDCI
1 - EXDIR
1 - SA/IA
1 -ER
1 - C/NIC
1 - VC/NIC
1 - Each NIO
1 - NIC/AG
1 -AO/NIC
1 - PO/NIC
1 - SRP
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