CHINA EMBASSY BOMBING MEMO

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001081812
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2009
• Case Number: F-2000-00007
• Publication Date: May 21, 1999

21 May 1999
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
OFFICE:
SUBJECT: China Embassy Bombing Memo
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CL REASON: Section 1.5
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DRV FRM:
20 May 1999
APPROVED FOR
RELEASE^DATE:
15-Jul-2009
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REFERENCE
China Embassy Bombing Memo
DCI Interagency Balkan Task Force
14 May 1999
(U) BTF Role in Nominating Bombing Targets
1. The DCI Interagency Balkan Task Force (BTF) has
not formally nominated any targets for attack by NATO. The BTF's
role has been to:
* Provide the US policy
and potential targets.
community ideas for bombing strategies
* Advise military planners on ways to make the NATO air
campaign more effective. We have argued in numerous memorandums
and teleconferences with J2T and EUCOM military planners that it
would be more effective to target field deployed units and
facilites associated with the ongoing violence in Kosovo than to
strike the Integrated Air Defense System.
Advise senior CIA management and J2T about targets to avoid.
 For example
on the potential for collateral damage to targets
on the NATO strike list.
2.I I BTF analysts had only a peripheral involvement in the
nomination of the the Federal Directorate of Supply and
Procurement (FDSP). We followed--but did not directly
participate in--the Lotus Notes discussion about the targeting of
FDSP because analysts had no special expertise or knowledge that
would have allowed us to correct the missidentification of the
new Chinese Embassy as an FDSP facility.
Sent on 20 May 1999 at 11:04:31 AM
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