CENTRAL AMERICAN BRIEFING REQUEST BY DOUG OLIN, SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE STAFFER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01370R000600840021-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 10, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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10 April 84
SUBJECT: Central America Briefing Request by Doug Olin, Senate
Budget Committee Staffer.
Doug Olin, currently a "Senior Analyst for National Security
and International Affairs" on the staff of the Senate Budget Committee
and former OMB examiner for CIA, is arranging the Chiles-Johnston CODEL
trip to Central America, 15-21 April 84. (The visit is under State
Department and DoD auspices to El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, and
Nicaragua.) In addition to the two Senators and Olin, Richard
Collins, Senate Appropriations Committee's Foreign Operations Sub-
committee staffer (Senator Inouye's man), will accompany the CODEL.
He is a frequent Central America visitor; this will be Olin's first
visit there and he would appreciate a DDI briefing on the area.
He requests that it be at Headquarters at 2 p.m. Friday, 13 April.
Richard Collins would accompany him. Olin still has an im ressive
set of exotic clearances 25X1
For the Olin-Collins briefing, the following requests were
conveyed re Central America:
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-Current political situation.
-Perspective on political/military leaders.
-Election prognosis for El Salvador and Panama.
-Impact of Gen. Alvarez' departure and future implications.
-Military situation.
-A "pumping up" on appropriate questions to ask VIPs
being met in Central America. (See attached itinerary 25X1
and list of personages on whom biodata has been provided
the CODEL.)
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