WORLDWIDE BRIEFING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R001604270011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 30, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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30 January 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT: Worldwide Briefing
I gave you six pages of draft material for my statement, perhaps twice
that long. I need to develop on expansionism in the underdeveloped world
by the Soviets and their proxies. Additional points I would like to work
in include these:
-- The Brezhnev doctrine - once Communist, always Communist - and how
it is implemented. For this, I have asked Clair George to develop some
paragraphs on control mechanisms, lock systems, as in Cuba and Nicaragua,
security operations of the Cubans, East Germans, Bulgarians and North Koreans.
-- Libyan, Iranian and Syrian terrorist supported activities as
augmenting Soviet bloc (including Libya) expansion, particularly in Africa,
the Middle East, and Central America. For this purpose, there is material
in a memorandum entitled, "Libyan Global Reach," which could be boiled down
into a few paragraphs.
-- Something about the Soviet/Cuban/East bloc subversion and propaganda
apparatus - KGB, DGI.
-- Something about the proxy system. I am attaching one page of notes
on this and my Westminster speech which deals with some of this.
-- Some paragraphs bringing out the uneven contest in the Third World
if the Soviets and their friends continue on a no-holds-barred basis while
we are encumbered with restrictions and the prospect of not being able to
follow through on commitments, and what this does to our reliability.
-- The range of techniques used to impose and sustain Communist regimes -
famine in Cambodia, population dislocation and relocation in Nicaragua and
currently in Ethiopia.
William J. Casey
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Talking Points
- The Soviets with their partners have gobbled up or are threatening
a huge slice of Asia, Africa and Latin America. (see map)
- In the mid-sixties, there were 16 countries getting military support
from the Soviets; in the mid-seventies, 33 and none occupied by Soviets or
their proxies. Today 40 countries get military support, 9 are occupied by
Soviet, Cuban or Libyan troops, and 6 are facing insurgencies supported by
Soviets, Cubans or Libyans.
- North Africa from Tunisia to Sudan and Somalia, Central Africa from
Chad to Zaire, are under pressure from Libya with its well financed terrorism
and Ethiopia with the largest army in Africa. Southern Africa is under Cuban
and Soviet pressure.
- All of Central America and Peru and Bolivia in South America, together
with islands in the Caribbean, are under Cuban, Libyan and Soviet pressure.
- Asia from the southern border of China and its sea lanes to Thailand
and Pakistan is under pressure from Vietnam with the fourth largest army in
the world and from 170,000 occupying Vietnamese troops in Cambodia and
120,000 occupying Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
- The Soviets are spending $8 billion a year to wage this worldwide war
from Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam to Afghanistan, from the Horn of Africa to the
South Atlantic to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.
- In 1981, most of these positions faced opposition from less than 100,000
freedom fighters. Today in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua
more than 300,000 ordinary people have taken up arms against Communist imposed
regimes. This has checked the advance of Soviet power around the world.
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"WHAT WE FACE"
by
WILLIAM J. CASEY
Director of Central Intelligence
THE FORTIETH
JOHN FINDLEY GREEN FOUNDATION LECTURE
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
Fulton, Missouri
Delivered on
October 29,1983
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